Example sentences of "[art] [noun] have [vb pp] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board has recommended a 10% increase in interim dividend to 3.32 pence , compared with 1992 's 3.02 pence . |
| 2 | In 1990 , the AfDB had funded a 190km road in nearby Sierra Leone , running through one of West Africa 's few surviving stretches of coastal rainforest . |
| 3 | The owl had eaten a vole . |
| 4 | In Committee and on the Floor of the House , the Opposition have made a series of spending pledges with other people 's money , and pledges to slash the profits of industries that need profits in order to invest . |
| 5 | THE ROCKINGBIRDS have scheduled a pair of Irish dates and added further shows to their current British tour , which now includes . |
| 6 | Throughout the early and mid-1950s when national fuel policy emphasized volume of production this remained , but by the late 1950s with a national shift towards cheap oil the NCB had began a series of closures . |
| 7 | Police said : ‘ The BMW had overtaken a series of vehicles while . |
| 8 | As the years had progressed a series of petty crimes had seen him in remand homes , borstals and finally prison . |
| 9 | The housebuilding side of the business has seen a 55pc rise in sales in the first five months of the year over the start of 1992 . |
| 10 | In the first case , the purchaser had bought a £17,500 house in 1980 with an Abbey National Building Society mortgage . |
| 11 | The group has issued a series of writs against several former ISC employees , including Mr James Guerin , the head of the company at the time of the merger with Ferranti . |
| 12 | So far the TUC has begun a series of training seminars with Solidarity aimed at pushing it away from being a political and highly regionalised organisation into being an industrial and truly national one . |
| 13 | A county spokesman did point out that the authority had given a £10,000 grant to the railway last year which went towards a footbridge at Medstead station . |
| 14 | But the Liberal Democrat leader , Paddy Ashdown , who once lived in the colony , said the governor had taken a series of moves which were supported in the territory and should be supported in Britain . |
| 15 | The decision was taken after the paper had published a series of articles alleging nepotism in job appointments and an unfair distribution of funds in the district . |
| 16 | In previous work , the investigator has developed a means to investigate children 's understanding of recursive beliefs in story characters , that is , whether they can understand that John does not know that Mary knows where the ice cream van is . |
| 17 | Until the 24th there are recent watercolours by Niasami Teraoka at Pamela Auchencloss which mix traditional Japanese techniques with contemporary subject matter ( the artist has done a series , for instance , on AIDS ) and watercolours , pastels and ink drawings by George Baselitz are at Matthew Marks until the 26th . |
| 18 | Since 1983 , the government has funded a series of one-term full-time courses in polytechnics and universities to provide intensive training for designated teachers with specific responsibility for pupils with special needs in ordinary schools ( see Meeting Special Needs in Ordinary Schools by Seamus Hegarty in this series for information on research on evaluation of their effectiveness ) . |
| 19 | Since the early 1980s , the Chinese parliament has enacted four major laws on the protection of the environment , and eight laws on the protection of natural resources , and the government has issued a series of administrative regulations and environmental standards . |
| 20 | The Government has launched a £1.25 million publicity campaign with TV and radio adverts . |
| 21 | The RSPB has launched a £400,000 appeal to finance the purchase and management of the island . |
| 22 | On Friday , it was announced that the firm had secured a £20 million contract which would safeguard about 100 jobs , most of them in Edinburgh , for the next few years . |
| 23 | Local operators will take you in four-wheel-drive vehicles to explore the near outback , where the river has carved a series of spectacular gorges into a vast , rolling sand plain . |
| 24 | The company has made a series of acquisitions in recent years but sold its Skelmersdale Packaging subsidiary , which contributed profits of £1.7m on sales of £12m in 1990 , in a deal worth £11½m in December 1990 . |
| 25 | The company has taken a £47m hit above the line and another £23m below . |
| 26 | The company has won a £24 million contract awarded by the United Overseas Bank for an extension and extensive alterations to its 38-storey Plaza 2 offices in Singapore . |
| 27 | £100,000 grant : The NorthEast has won a £100,000 Government grant for adult education courses run by the Workers Educational Association in schools , community centres and colleges throughout the region . |
| 28 | The region has won a £3 million contract awarded by Birmingham City Council to repair and redecorate 7078 council homes . |
| 29 | The region has won a £4.1 million contract from News International for refurbishment work at the existing printworks in Virginia Street , London EC1 . |
| 30 | Throughout 1990 and the first half of 1991 the SLORC had imposed a series of legal restrictions on the NLD and other opponents which effectively frustrated their political ambitions . |