Example sentences of "[num] [noun] have [be] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I began to enumerate , but after three operations had been mentioned the doctor said , ‘ Oh yes , yes , yes ! ’ and wrote quickly on his pad . |
| 2 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 3 | The chief executives of the three firms have been discussing the plan for five months and have now handed over the task of implementing the grand design to their operating systems managers . |
| 4 | This act left him with an interest in the company that was for most practical purposes worthless since the previous practice among the three member-directors had been to take the money out of the firm in the form of directors ' fees rather than shareholders ' dividends . |
| 5 | In December it was announced that 11 prisoners had been given the death sentence , commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 6 | FOUR Hereford players were sent off yesterday in their 1-1 draw at Northampton — the first time in British history four players from one side have been given the red card . |
| 7 | Since the 1960's Williams has been exploring the dynamics of contemporary and classical music , achieving enormous success with ‘ Sky ’ and ‘ J W and Friends ’ . |
| 8 | His one slip had been using the phrase ‘ whole sorry business ’ . |
| 9 | In the description phase subjects viewed each film split into five second sections , after five seconds had been viewed the experimenter paused the video recording showing the subject a blank blue field , the subject then had unlimited time to describe the situation they had viewed and the events that had taken place . |
| 10 | Nine others had been arrested the previous day , he added , " following a search operation by the army " in which one soldier had been killed and two wounded . |
| 11 | More than 120,000 soldiers have been battling the militants in the Kashmir valley , supported by locals , who look upon the security forces as a vengeful occupying force which must be opposed . |
| 12 | The jury of seven men and five women have been given the day off tomorrow while both sides consider the evidence against Marsh and on Monday make their final submissions to the court . |
| 13 | Five of the nine practices had been collecting the types of data required by the regional health authority for several years , and all of the practices had computer systems in operation before the preparation period . |
| 14 | Once all nine barrels have been discharged the weapon is of no further use , although hopefully it will have done its job by this time , and your enemies will be running for the hills . |
| 15 | He and his wife had been involved in offering support and assistance to the family whose eight children had been removed the previous November . |
| 16 | The company is Aurigny Air Services , which for over twenty years has been linking the islands with one another and the airports of Southampton , Bournemouth , Cherbourg and Dinard . |
| 17 | The demonstrations came temporarily to an end after a personal appeal by Gorbachev on 26 February , but a report that two Azerbaijanis had been killed the previous week led to an anti-Armenian riot on 28–29 February in the oil town of Sumgait in which 32 people were killed and 197 were injured , including more than 100 police officers . |
| 18 | Two million people have been to see the film Jurassic Park since it was released in British cinemas just five days ago . |
| 19 | Since October 1989 teachers have been delivering the first stages of a new national curriculum ; and in the early summer they will start testing ( sorry , assessing ) all seven-year-olds on the three core disciplines : mathematics , English and science . |
| 20 | Seven hundred children have been having the time of their lives at a special party . |
| 21 | The thrust of the last two chapters has been to demonstrate the ordinariness of policing in Easton . |
| 22 | Happily all four engines had been spared the attention of the Ju88 but I was soon to learn from the flight engineer that the aileron control cable had been severed and he went into the wing root to find the two ends and make some sort of connection . |
| 23 | And in rehearsal the other two actors have been making the running . |