Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [verb] [art] [num ord] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The Institute has become the first professional institution to be registered for its headquarters administrative operations under BS 5750 . |
| 3 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Reading Transport has become the first British bus company to run its buses on a fuel derived from oilseed rape . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | The Charity Commission has launched a second formal investigation into Richmond Fellowship Charitable Foundation , less than a year since its last report into the mental health charity . |
| 8 | The Belgian government has ordered the first multi-language version of Chemdata from the National Chemical Emergency Centre . |
| 9 | Stirring it around herself , she looked down at her long body , noticing how her illness had removed the last spare flesh . |
| 10 | In Britain local authority ( council ) housing has become the second largest sector of the housing market , holding considerable social significance in local areas . |
| 11 | Former Olympic XC skiier , Croasdale is the man in form having won the first two rounds of the British championship breaking course records in the process , and clocking a useful 63–47 for the half marathon in York . |
| 12 | On March 31 it was announced that the Katowice Commercial and Credit Bank had become the first Polish bank to go bankrupt . |
| 13 | By the time Johnstone was helped ashore , the manager Willie Ormond had been alerted and the story had taken the first few faltering steps into football mythology . |
| 14 | An Institute member has become the first chartered accountant to face trial on money laundering charges under the drug Trafficking Offence Act 1986 . |
| 15 | The survey has produced the first national estimate of below tolerable standard houses derived from consistently applied methods . |
| 16 | The Gloucestershire company has spent the last five years building up an export market in America with department stores now taking their products . |
| 17 | Vice president of development , Saiid Zarrabian , admits the company has spent the last three years ‘ in perpetual transition , desperately trying to find out what it is good at … in doing this the company has lost time and money trying to make good the things it started . ’ |
| 18 | The company had insisted the last 88 job cuts in a 2,200 redundancy programme had to be found before yesterday 's deadline . |
| 19 | But there was no room there and the 22-year-old had spent the last six days in Middlesbrough police station . |
| 20 | It was reported on Aug. 19 that the Swedish bank Forex had become the second foreign bank to buy and sell kroons , following the Lithuanian bank Litimpex 's decision to do so in June . |
| 21 | Paid holidays , more affluence and cheaper travel have turned the last few decades into an era of travel . |
| 22 | On behalf of CEPT , the Conference on European Posts and Telecommunications , the European Radiocommunications Office has completed the first Detailed Spectrum Investigation into the use of radio frequencies in the microwave or millimetric spectrum — between 3.4GHz and 105GHz . |
| 23 | Houston , Texas-based , Talus Corp and the Electronic & Computer Science Centre ( ESCS ) of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have released the first Russian programme for NeXt Inc 's NeXtStations . |