Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have [vb pp] a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH Rail has introduced a £20m package of improvements to North-East services aimed at attracting more travellers on to local trains . |
| 2 | BRITISH Aerospace has won a £300 million contract to build 13 RAF Harriers , it was announced yesterday . |
| 3 | British Telecom and the Scottish Ensemble have agreed a £250,000 co-operation which will allow the 11-player BT Scottish Ensemble to develop its work substantially both on the platform and in the community . |
| 4 | Unisys Corp 's French subsidiary has won a $9.3m order from the Agricultural Bank of Algeria to automate its 250 branches and 36 agencies in competition with Groupe Bull SA and Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssysteme . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , following a protest by villagers , British Gas has rerouted a £2.7 million gas main to avoid disturbing a colony of rare glow worms near Barrowden , Leicestershire . |
| 6 | The Dutch Institute of Public Health has split a £300,000 grant between Prof Boulois and researchers in Adelaide , Australia , who are collaborating to develop the vaccine further . |
| 7 | Gosforth High School has won a £240,000 Government grant to re-equip technology , science and maths areas so it can join the country 's select band of 88 Technology Schools . |
| 8 | A social worker has developed a means of measuring ‘ emotional stability ’ in children by means of a short interview with the child . |
| 9 | A BRITISH company has clinched a £1 million deal to supply Donald Ducks for Walt Disney . |
| 10 | The Scottish Office has provided a £120,000 grant to examine a problem which Dr Freeman said has never been been studied systematically anywhere in the world . |
| 11 | Shooting quiz : Three men are being questioned after a Catholic was shot and wounded at his west Belfast home in an area where Loyalist killers have staged a series of hit-and-run attacks . |
| 12 | And this from a man whose more serious moments have spawned a folk opera about the island of Lewis and tuneful contributions to charity cassettes . |
| 13 | At a dinner for Liberal candidates on March 1st , Lloyd George announced that the Liberal Party had prepared a series of public-works projects , which could be put in hand the moment a Liberal Government came to power , and which would reduce unemployment to ‘ normal proportions ’ in a year . |
| 14 | Witco 's organic division has introduced a series of Formez ester and ether polyols for the manufacture of polyurethane oligomers used to formulate coatings for radiation curing systems . |
| 15 | MAN LEAVES CAT AND £43,000 TO CHARITY Sooty the black cat has brought a £43,000 windfall to a charity . |
| 16 | P-E International Plc has reported a £48,000 net loss for the year to December 31 , struck after £524,000 extraordinary costs associated with the sale of its Applied Skills for Management Ltd subsidiary , on turnover up 3.4% to £71.1m . |
| 17 | The rundown remains of Liverpool Castle a replica of King John 's famous fortress have received a £40,000 cash boost . |
| 18 | The Chinese government has announced a $55 million plan to increase the number of panda reserves from 13 to 27 . |
| 19 | The advent of the networking procedures for linking stand-alone systems has provided a means whereby the role of the CAD system can be rethought . |
| 20 | Pro-independence groups had submitted a series of similar declarations in March and April , each of which was defeated . |
| 21 | AS WELL AS the Australian drought , the southern hemisphere has experienced a series of extreme climatic events in the past year . |
| 22 | Newton Aycliffe 's industrial estate has suffered a series of burglaries and car crime this week . |
| 23 | Poor survey : Chartered surveyors are being badly hit by the construction slowdown , according to a new survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors which says that small practices have suffered a 28% drop in workload in the past year . |
| 24 | W H Smith came in for some surprisingly harsh comment from the financial press last week after the group 's interim results had revealed a 20% drop in pretax profits . |
| 25 | For FFr100m ( $17.5m ) , American Express has bought a 2% stake in Club Méditerranée , a French group that ranks third among European tour operators , and runs holiday villages in exotic places . |
| 26 | The Northern Echo has received a series of telephone calls and letters from people who have contributed and want to know what is happening . |
| 27 | NORTHERN region has won a £3.2 million contract for the North Western Regional Health Authority to build a three storey building linking to the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in Lancashire . |
| 28 | Made of strong willow cane , the cone-shaped traps were about five feet in diameter at the mouth tapering to a point Once the unfortunate salmon had entered the trap , it was doomed Yanto hoped the recent tide had yielded a fish which he would grab before the traps were checked the following morning . |
| 29 | Hewlett-Packard Co 's Russian subsidiary has finalised a $30m contract with the oil enterprise ASUNEFT , Nizniy Vartosk , northern Siberia . |
| 30 | Other studies have used a series of slides making up the story instead of a film . |