Example sentences of "[noun prp] 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 | On to golf now and Colin Montgomerie has reached the last four of the Toyota World Matchplay at Wentworth . |
| 4 | Iraq eventually announced on Aug. 28 that Kuwait had become the 19th Iraqi governorate ( liwa ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dave Walsh and Roger Mear have made the first British ascent of mighty Nanga Parbat , 8,165 metres . |
| 7 | J.F. Lazartigue have opened a second Diagnostic and Advisory Hair Centre at . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | By August 5 the cable had been laid , and Thomson had sent the first two messages over it . |
| 10 | Gould had struck the last ornithological goldmine . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Duroc had spent the last three months in France , dealing with the business of the Violent Tendency for Freedom . |
| 14 | It was the first time since 1921 that England had lost the first three Tests of a home rubber . |
| 15 | South Korea have won the last three tournaments . |
| 16 | A pilot from Wiltshire has become the first British serviceman to be decorated in Bosnia . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that join Nottingham and Cornwall . |
| 20 | The A 38 , David Buss has spent the last 20 years working at different places along the road that joins Nottingham and Cornwall . |
| 21 | The BBC had missed the first international wicket of the season , in preference to a weather report and some local tittle-tattle . |
| 22 | Two studies in Sweden have provided the first convincing evidence of a link between exposure to electromagnetic radiation from overhead power lines and the incidence of cancer , according to officials from the Swedish National Board for Industrial and Technical Development . |
| 23 | The ICD has added a third powerful treatment method to coronary revascularisation and antiarrhythmic drug therapies for the management of cardiac arrest survivors . |
| 24 | Although Mao has been the subject of countless biographies , David Goodman has written the first fitting biography of Mr Deng . |
| 25 | In contesting the run-off , Young had become the first black candidate to progress beyond the primary stage of the electoral process for any state-wide office within the state of Georgia . |
| 26 | Three years before Humphrys 's arrival in Kabul , King Amanullah had launched the third Afghan war against Britain , which had ended in Afghanistan 's gaining the right to control its own foreign relations . |
| 27 | Although Newcomen had produced the first practical steam-engine in the early years of the eighteenth century , it was capable only of a simple back-and-forth or up-and-down motion and therefore disappeared under-ground to be used for pumping water out of mines . |
| 28 | Australia have won the last four tournaments . |
| 29 | Companies as diverse as IBM and Amstrad have reported the first full-year losses in their histories . |
| 30 | Britain has spent the last 100 years fighting against the facts of German power : indeed our modern national identity has to a great extent been forged in the fires of the great conflict with Germany while our sense of our moral worth rests in part on our role in the defeat of Nazism . |