Example sentences of "to have come [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We can now account moreover for the observation made by Poutsma ( 1923 : 41 ) that a perfect infinitive is always preceded by to when used with a verb of perception : ( 50 ) Mr Lorry observed a great change to have come over the doctor ( and not *observed a great change have come over the doctor ) . |
| 2 | He seems to have come across the article in the early weeks of 1953 , since in February he threatened a libel action if copies of the offending issue were not immediately destroyed . |
| 3 | The third defendant appears to have come onto the scene in about 1982 as a financial adviser in connection with the proposal to acquire and develop the bakery for the purposes of the centre . |
| 4 | The spectre of listing was blamed earlier this year for the number of important works of art from historic collections to have come onto the London market over a short period . |
| 5 | On the evidence of inscriptions recorded in the volume , it appears to have been in the possession of Amelia , Lady Lovat , in the 17th century , and John , 1st Duke of Atholl , in the 18th century : it seems to have come into the ownership of Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe in the 19th century , and from there to have passed to the Wigan Free Library . |
| 6 | For a period of the late 16th century it appears to have come into the possession of the Earls of Leicester but eventually came back into the full possession of Trinity College , which remained lord of the manor until quite recent times . |
| 7 | One of several players to have come into the Armagh side of late to join the more experienced brigade , Mark is following in the footsteps of two of Killeavey 's most distinguished players , Gareth and Padraig O'Neill , both of whom have given great service to the county . |
| 8 | ‘ It seems to have come as a shock to you , ’ he observed . |
| 9 | The revelation that the villagers recognised four types of diarrhoea seems to have come as a surprise to BRAC , suggesting insufficient research on the part of BRAC prior to launching its programme . |
| 10 | ‘ Little Violetta seems to have come as a bit of an afterthought . |
| 11 | Free Range Egg production having taking off in the 80's , seems to have come to a halt , if all that we read and hear is true . |
| 12 | Despite the reward and an extensive search of the area police enquiries seemed to have come to a halt . |
| 13 | One notable absentee from the squad is Lee Crooks , once rated invaluable by Reilly , who appears to have come to a career crossroads . |
| 14 | At any rate you seem to have come to no harm . ’ |
| 15 | Because of the now universal use in England of the Historical year system , it is normal for reference books to mark events of all kinds which happened between 1 January and 24 March in any one year with a double indicator — thus King Henry V may be judged to have come to the throne on 21 March 1412/13 , that is 1412 by Annunciation reckoning , but 1413 by Historical ( now conventional ) reckoning . |
| 16 | In music , the quantitative usage ( ‘ well favoured ’ ) seems to have come to the fore in the eighteenth century — alongside the development of a ( bourgeois ) commercial market in musical products ; and when , in the first half of the nineteenth century , songs for the bourgeois market ( including what we would now call ‘ drawing-room ballads ’ ) were described as ‘ popular songs ’ , the intended implication seems to have been that they were good ( that is , well liked by those whose opinion counted ) . |
| 17 | Mrs Gray seemed to have come to the end of what she wanted to say . |
| 18 | ‘ If they wanted to keep out of trouble they would n't have bothered to have come to the police station . ’ |
| 19 | There was likely to be more interest in a member of the family who seemed to have come to the boil than in Sara who would cost time and patience to bring to blood heat . |
| 20 | With the death of Tixier-Vignancour a distinctive line of French politicians seems to have come to an end . |
| 21 | Fortunately , the rain seems to have come to an end just in time — and , in any case , Hermann Duckek , recognised as the world expert on producing artificial surfaces , says that a downpour could easily be dealt with . |
| 22 | City had not won a League game at Portman Road for 30 years , and had not scored in their last seven visits , but the jinx looked to have come to an end when Gary Flitcroft 's first senior goal for the club gave them a 37th minute lead . |
| 23 | Mr. Collins 's primary submission was that , at any rate so far as the eliciting of information from the applicant himself was concerned , the investigative process contemplated by sections 1(3) and 2 of the Act of 1987 must be taken to have come to an end at the time of charge , and to have been replaced by the process of prosecution pursuant to section 1(5) . … |
| 24 | She seemed to have come on the retreat more out of material loyalty than religious devotion . |
| 25 | Very little seems to have come of the initiative until five years later , when the Treasury created something along these lines for the Conservative Chancellor , R. A. Butler , as part of an examination of spending on the social services . |
| 26 | Nothing seemed to have come of the silver salver idea , no doubt because of the continuing need for secrecy . |
| 27 | The company 's 1991 figures , to be announced this month , are likely to confirm him as one of the few 1980s entrepreneurs to have come through the recession unscathed . |
| 28 | Retail sales volumes are also expected to have come off the boil last month after rising strongly over the past quarter . |
| 29 | Between the Cuckmere valley and the kingdom of Kent settled a group whose identity remained fairly coherent until the days of the Norman conquest but of whose political influence we know but little ; these Haestingas seem to have come within the South Saxon ambit but served also as a buffer in the continued kingly wars of the early centuries . |
| 30 | It turned out to have come from a machine in a nearby corridor . |