Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [verb] the [num ord] " in BNC.

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1 A 70-year old woodland has become the first plantation forest to be declared a Site of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) by English Nature .
2 Established British companies had exploited the first whiff of pop vitality , with ABPC putting the saccharine personality of Cliff Richard through his paces in The Young Ones ( 1961 ) , a let's-have-a-show musical where all possibility of an interesting inter-generation clash is defused by the fact that its hero works for , and adores , his father , the property developer who wants to destroy the youth club ; and Summer Holiday ( 1962 ) , in which Cliff and the Shadows drive a London bus to Rome , pursued by the mother of the teen star they are thought to have kidnapped .
3 We talked of Partition and the how the old princess had thrown the last family heirlooms — a series of beautiful inlaid jade daggers down the haveli well , in case the police arrested them for possessing offensive weapons .
4 If the hon. Gentleman had listened the last time we had Home Office questions he would know perfectly well that the standard spending assessment has been set in West Yorkshire to enable it to employ police officers up to the full establishment .
5 My background is in publicity and public relations having spent the last ten years producing a variety of literature , press releases and editing several in-house magazines for two engineering companies — , a road machinery manufacturer and most recently which manufactures valves , pump and pipe systems for the H&V industry .
6 The inability of the States of Western Europe to play a decisive role in the solution of these new questions was shown clearly by the impotent resentment with which the French government had to watch the first partition of Poland in 1772 and the Russian annexation of the Crimea in 1783–84 .
7 DESPITE consistently pool weather and a frightening episode in which they were avalanched in their tents , two members of a british expedition have made the first ascent of the South Face of Thalay Sagar , one of the most attempted and failed on mountains in the Indian Charwal Hamalayas .
8 LOTHIAN REGIONAL Council has taken the first step towards a total ban on smoking from 1 January next year .
9 The self-evident gap between fantasy and reality — which is that no government , anywhere , of any political complexion has got the first clue about how to organise society in the post-Cold War world — has led to an aimless disgruntlement , a poisonous mixture of envy and ennui .
10 The Canadian courts have taken the first step , by accepting that the media has a qualified privilege to publish information ( which later turns out to be false ) about a possible public health hazard .
11 The man chosen was Russell Butler , a research student in social history at the University of London , who as a part-time tutor had taken the first course for apprentices at Marconi and had greatly impressed both here and in other courses for the branches in Hemel Hempstead and St. Albans .
12 In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting .
13 Pedro de Castro Van Dúnem " Loy " ( who had earlier met Shevardnadze ) , when Baker reportedly said that Angola 's moves towards multiparty democracy had removed the last obstacle to US endorsement of a peace settlement .
14 Previous albums have included the first eight now on Mercury , the final couple on Silvertone .
15 Paris-based Thomson-CSF SA 's Must Software International SA has announced the first versions of its Nomad applications generator for Unix , starting with IBM Corp systems .
16 She remembered the bride of one year , alight with the happiness of those early celebrations when the Grand Duke had granted the first liberties , and thought how strange it was for an English woman to be so mad with joy .
17 The Belgian government has ordered the first multi-language version of Chemdata from the National Chemical Emergency Centre .
18 Colonel Hamilton told his men that the Prime Minister had described the second battle of the Marne as the greatest victory in the history of the war .
19 The European Commission has accepted the first set of standards worked out for the EC 's ecolabelling scheme , which aims to inform consumers about the environmental impact of particular products .
20 This switch in the attitudes of the medical establishment has removed the last justification ( if there ever was one ) for cruel factory farming practices .
21 A ROMANTIC couple have become the first Britons to wed in Disney World , Florida .
22 After 1870 industrialization and urbanization entered a new phase , which economic historians have designated the second industrial revolution to distinguish it from the coming of industry to Britain over a century earlier .
23 A BABY ostrich called Linford after the Olympic flyer has become the first of his kind to be born in Britain outside a zoo .
24 While most of the Manc pack ran aground by the time their debut albums hit the bargain bins , these ugly ducklings have started the second lap with their feathers unruffled and their rhythms decidedly unflurried .
25 The Californian authorities have announced the first form of public transport to be powered by alternative energy sources .
26 Other authors have used the second interpretation in connection with the same platforms .
27 Recent accessions have included the first American edition of Joseph Black 's Lectures on the elements of Chemistry , ( Philadelphia : 1807 ) ; a Paris edition of John Barclay 's Argenis printed in 1621 , and an item believed to have been printed in Edinburgh about 1800 entitled ‘ A Pleasant Humourous and satyrical poem ’ , part one of which calls on young women to ‘ embrace the pure and holy state of matrimony ’ : part two ‘ contains excellent directions in the choice of a husband … ’
28 Today I for the United States , and the General Secretary for the Soviet Union have signed the first agreement ever to eliminate an entire class of U S and Soviet nuclear weapons .
29 A CHILD with a rare inherited disease that affects the immune system has become the first in the world to receive an advanced form of gene therapy .
30 The Labour Party have published the first of a series of papers showing their commitment to the craft industry .
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