Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Considerable investments have been made in equipment for DTP and publication graphics from 1989/90 to 1993/93 , but the staffing to take advantage of these systems has only increased by one half-post in the same time . |
| 2 | He is still very young and has only played for one season ( Wilko let him do a degree first , a 1st in chemisty ) . |
| 3 | For the duration of a project stage the individual has only to look at one sheet of paper to see the position reached , moving directly to further specific information if and when necessary . |
| 4 | In the past year , builder John has already carried off one stunt after another . |
| 5 | Er Tom has also asked for twenty tonne of anutrients to go up to . |
| 6 | In line with its parent company 's strategy , the UK subsidiary has now reorganised into seven business units . |
| 7 | ‘ Well , they investigated , and apparently it was quite easy , because it was a very distinctive typeface , which they 'd only used on one machine . |
| 8 | She had more Christmas cards than I 'd ever seen for one person ; every surface was a forest of them . |
| 9 | Lineker , on the other hand , took his decision having already played in two World Cups , deciding it was in his best interests to seek a fortune playing in Japan rather than face the prospect of losing his status and even his England place as his legs began to fail him . |
| 10 | So probably a total stock of a dozen or more White Clouds , a dozen Zebra Danios , five female and one male American Flags ( females have a dot on the dorsal fin ) , six Black Widows and Six Red Eyes , with perhaps six Rosy or Aurulius barbs ( though I have my doubts about the later having once come across three three-inch specimens that tried to eat Corydoras for breakfast ) and the pair of sluggard cats . |
| 11 | According to Mr Charles , my father had duly driven to one village and was on the point of entering a second when either Mr Smith or Mr Jones noticed the village was Brigoon — that is to say the third , not the second , name of the sequence . |
| 12 | These youths had all escaped in one way or another from forced labour throughout the archipelago and the mainland colonies ; there were some women with them , but not many , and Dulé planned to bring Ariel and her baby to live with him on Oualie . |
| 13 | When she 'd been doing her research for this article she 'd talked to various other people in the City regarding Laura Wyndham 's expertise in her job , and they had all agreed on one thing — she was at the very top of her profession . |
| 14 | Besides my mother 's whispered asides with their garnish of guilt , I had only brushed with two cancer sufferers in my life . |
| 15 | His win/loss playing record for the year up to 23/3/92 was 20/3 , bettered only by one player , Perez Roldan , who had only played in one tournament , in Casablanca . |
| 16 | They were run by the women of a bombed city , most of whom had already lived through one war . |
| 17 | Brandt retired as party chairman amidst much criticism , to be succeeded by Vogel who , of course , had already failed in one bid to become Chancellor . |
| 18 | Billy had just shuffled from one foot to the other and blushed as all dutiful sons should do . |
| 19 | No one seemed at all interested in how poor old Donald died ; he had just keeled over one night . |
| 20 | As you went in to the head end where the roof bolts were still intact , it was hard to imagine that approximately forty six metre , fifty metre of gate had just come in one go . |
| 21 | I have been told that on coming to the village to work in the cement factories and receiving his first weeks wages he asked if it was all his as it was more money than he had ever had in one week . |
| 22 | ’ It add up to more Fedcreds than we 've ever earned for one job , ’ I said lightly . |
| 23 | The court 's general prosecutor had unsuccessfully asked for 19 death sentences to be imposed . |
| 24 | I chose the example I did because it gave an important history of another library , Glasgow , and because it had also belonged at one time to the Guildhall Library , which had passed it on to them . |
| 25 | The union had originally asked for 9½ p.c . |
| 26 | Orbis Ali , an Afar , announced that his resignation was in protest against the civil war , which had now continued for one year , and against the deteriorating economic situation . |
| 27 | Bordeaux had not taken kindly to competition from what it dismissed as ‘ the hinterland ’ , and had even insisted at one point on Bergerac wines being shipped in smaller casks , thus forcing the Bergerac vignerons to pay more tax on their exports , the money being levied per cask . |
| 28 | The increased dose they would get from having Hinkley C on their doorstep , according to Jeremy Western ( a manager from the Board 's Health Physics department who confidently fronted the radiation case ) was less than if they had simply moved from one part of Britain to another — where the ‘ natural ’ background radiation happened to be higher . |
| 29 | An example of this was given by a liaison group teacher who said that he always asks his classes for their height and weight : he had yet to come across one pupil who used the metric system . |
| 30 | It scared her , but as she glanced secretly across at the face she had never forgotten for one moment she realised she was more excited than scared . |