Example sentences of "has [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 THE number of children on Wirral 's child protection register has jumped 10% in a year , according to the council 's annual social services report .
2 The Yale University Art Gallery has received $10 million from the widow of Senator John Heinz III of Pennsylvania .
3 Accordionist Tommy Edmondson , 58 , of Rothbury , Northumberland , has received £100 for the signature tune of the BBC children 's cartoon Captain Pugwash , which he recorded 40 years ago and was paid £2 .
4 The European Centre for Training Craftsmen in the Conservation of the Architectural Heritage , in Venice , has received $40,500 to enable crafts workers from Central and Eastern Europe to participate in its courses for stone masons , joiners , stucco plasterers , painters and blacksmiths .
5 My understanding is that it is no secret and that it is public information-that is unless it has received £250,000 or more .
6 iv A family has received £400 in compensation after a coach holiday firm failed to provide the smoke-free transport specified in the brochure .
7 The Cleveland Rotofac Trust has received £500 from Middlesbrough Council 's Community Chest to put towards a cruiser to take the disabled on trips on local waterways .
8 Imran Khan 's Cancer Hospital Appeal has received £20,000 from Tilda Rice , the world 's leading producers of Basmati rice .
9 Archer Communications Inc , Calgary , Alberta reports that it has received $2.25m from Capcom Co of Japan and its Capcom USA Inc unit , as the second and final stage of a previously announced $6.525m loan agreement .
10 Fortunately , she has saved a large deposit to put down on a flat so she only has to borrow £45,000 .
11 The rarity of quakes there has lulled people into a sense of security that many say is false .
12 Television has altered people 's lives immensely — I feel very hostile to it .
13 Check 1 If Mr Smith shares his wage bill of $865.50 equally among 10 men , what does he pay each man ? unc Check 2 Joe has flown 54,825.00km in 100 hours .
14 This is partly because the council has limited means of enforcing its recommendations , short of the draconian removal of recognition from an entire course .
15 In addition to the International Network , MAS has designated people responsible for initial service delivery in most of the European countries .
16 It rose during the early 1980s but has fallen 9% since 1986 and is now about the same level as in the mid 1960s .
17 A grant of £400 is to be given to Sedgefield church , St Edmund 's restoration appeal , which has fallen £45,000 short of target .
18 And as you 've seen with previous closures of our homes , the last three , is that we 've been able to utilize some of those resources to provide that shift in policy which has been very successful , and has , er , a process that we 've got has allayed people 's fears who 've been used for those residential home agreements .
19 Tony Francis has gathered data mainly about modern cricketers : their fears , their inspirations , their strategies for survival and success .
20 For a statute or a past decision poses problems of consistency in strategy only when it has assigned people legal rights that a judge forming a new rule is for some reason powerless to change , rights that would work badly with the new rights he wants to create .
21 Disney , which has always refused to concede contractors ' claims , declared yesterday that its payment to CGCE which has undertaken £13.5m of work on the Paris theme park was related ‘ only to those of the group 's claims which are judged to be well-founded . ’
22 Their navy wants the best and it has placed £2 billion of orders in Europe since the Falklands war .
23 This has been a relatively lengthy chapter of necessity and it has placed sales settings in their respective contexts .
24 She has given $7,000 ( £4,400 ) towards the cost of a new fire engine , which is housed at the Old Saybrook Fire Station just two miles away from her home in Fenwick off the shore of the Long Island Sound .
25 He is also chairman of the polytechnic board of governors and has given £100,000 to the new science school to help develop the study of chemical and biotechnological sciences .
26 The borough council only needs to look to the example of Durham County Council which has given £100,000 to the Bowes Museum for its centenary celebrations to see how important local heritage is .
27 Does not that contrast with the Conservative policy of reducing the betting levy by 2.5 per cent. , which has given £100 million to sport and increased the Sports Council grant to £50 million —
28 Elton , 45 , has given £500,000 to Aids organisations in Britain alone , in the last three years .
29 The Nuffield Foundation ( which paid for the feasibility study ) has given £30 000 and the trustees are advertising for a project director this week .
30 Darlington council has provided a site for the day care centre while the county council has given £15,000 from the budget of the social services committee .
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