Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Middlesbrough has become the first local authority in Cleveland to approve a proposed licensing scheme for doormen . |
| 2 | The new republic of Hungary has become the first eastern European government to commit to open systems and will use X/Open 's XPG brand in procurement . |
| 3 | Penguin Books has issued an eighth revised edition of Sir John Summerson 's Architecture in Britain 1530–1830 , first published in 1953 and intended as a companion to Ellis Waterhouse 's Painting in Britain 1530–1830 and Margaret Whinney 's Sculpture in Britain which covers the same period . |
| 4 | On to golf now and Colin Montgomerie has reached the last four of the Toyota World Matchplay at Wentworth . |
| 5 | He was counting his blessings having backed the first 3 horses that actually finished the race . |
| 6 | Iraq eventually announced on Aug. 28 that Kuwait had become the 19th Iraqi governorate ( liwa ) . |
| 7 | The report claimed that Khmer Rouge fighters had attacked the 5th military region 's command based in the city as well as Bek Chan airport . |
| 8 | Earlier , Malcolm Pyrah had won the first Olympic Talent Spotters Championship on It 's Me and , though he does not believe the small seven-year-old chestnut is potential Olympic material , he echoed the widespread praise for this new series of competitions . |
| 9 | Dave Walsh and Roger Mear have made the first British ascent of mighty Nanga Parbat , 8,165 metres . |
| 10 | SENIOR office-bearers in one of the Scottish National Party 's Lanarkshire branches have made the first formal call for the party leader , Alex Salmond , to resign . |
| 11 | J.F. Lazartigue have opened a second Diagnostic and Advisory Hair Centre at . |
| 12 | We refer , of course , not to vast numbers of physically appealing American females , but to the stunning vistas of the Norfolk coast , which Richard Denyer has spent the last few years painstakingly photographing |
| 13 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 14 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 15 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 16 | By August 5 the cable had been laid , and Thomson had sent the first two messages over it . |
| 17 | Gould had struck the last ornithological goldmine . |
| 18 | It was as if Dominic had spent the last two months play-acting and tonight had decided to drop the façade — totally , with no mercy . |
| 19 | She was not afraid of the dark , because when she was very little Maggie had had the last few scales of Fenna 's tail to suck on while she fell asleep . |
| 20 | Duroc had spent the last three months in France , dealing with the business of the Violent Tendency for Freedom . |
| 21 | By March 9 , helicopters had evacuated the 366th motorised infantry regiment from Stepanakert to Georgia . |
| 22 | It was the first time since 1921 that England had lost the first three Tests of a home rubber . |
| 23 | In effect , even those who move across the margins into CID work have produced the first structural crack in the preferred coherent model of uniformed and unitary policing . |
| 24 | South Korea have won the last three tournaments . |
| 25 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |
| 26 | THE Isle of Man has become the first British authority to issue plastic identity card driving licences with tamper-proof colour photographs , using a £30,000 digital imaging system developed by Hitachi and NBS Card Systems of Weybridge , Surrey . |
| 27 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
| 28 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 29 | The Liberal government before the First World War had made the first tentative steps in the introduction of old-age pensions ( 1908 ) and national health and unemployment insurance ( 1911 ) . |
| 30 | FUND-RAISERS have held the first official meeting at their new Harewood House base . |