Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [prep] [num] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four inches of rain have fallen in four days in the south-west , making it the region 's soggiest November since 1940 and Britain 's wettest autumn since 1984 . |
| 2 | Catches have fallen from 36,000 tonnes in 1988 to 28,000 tonnes in 1992 and the number of fish is down by two-thirds . |
| 3 | I have heard of three deaths during rugby matches in the seven years I have been secretary , but nothing like this . |
| 4 | Between us , our ancestors have travelled through three continents for us to arrive here . |
| 5 | We have broken with 40 years of tradition to publish this service as a monthly partwork to ensure you receive all the information and informed comment you need , as you need it . |
| 6 | The previous arguments have pointed to two ways in which policing in Easton is ordinary . |
| 7 | All 23 single attacks of pouchitis have responded within three days of treatment with metronidazole orally . |
| 8 | Average working hours have dropped by 40 minutes over the last year , implying either the need for less overtime or further indications that management is keeping a tighter control on costs while continuing to improve productivity . |
| 9 | Back to cricket and some final scores have just come in , Essex have beaten Gloucestershire and Worcestershire have won by five wickets against Nottinghamshire . |
| 10 | Because here we have looked at four options for the western highway and th and those stars could indicate any of those four options so I think |
| 11 | To a casual passenger , glancing in as he lurched down the corridor , they must , thought Dalgliesh , have looked like two penitents in a private confessional absolving each other . |
| 12 | In Britain , I have come across two species in particular which do this — tree sparrows , using fresh beech leaves , and buzzards , using green-leaved twigs . |
| 13 | REGARDING your article on fuel wastage in Belfast , I have come across two instances of it lately . |
| 14 | Those predictions which have been made about the impact of new technology on employment levels have come from two types of analysis . |
| 15 | They had given rewards and favours to their supporters , especially in Wales , and " have succeeded in six years in creating a political spoils system which already rivals that of the United States . |
| 16 | If you had stood as I have done for five hours in a draughty ante-room of a courthouse sticking sixpences into one of those things to see how frequently it paid out , you would n't be so keen to chuck your money away , son . |
| 17 | First , the scheme has been extremely well run and the loans company has met its target of getting the loans to those who have applied within 21 days in almost all cases . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most compelling evidence of all comes from studies of people who have moved from one country to another — Japanese who have emigrated to California , for instance — and adopted Western diets . |
| 19 | A team of 24 firemen who have operated for 17 years without pay and raised the money for their own equipment are the most recent winners of the Guinness Stout Effort Award in Malaysia . |
| 20 | For the five-part piece that follows , for which the livret suggests that both strings and winds played , the score does not reveal whether the oboe band would have played as a four-part ensemble or have expanded to five parts in order to double all the strings . |
| 21 | They have sold over million albums around the globe , played around a thousand sold-out shows and enjoyed numerous hit singles . |
| 22 | Their most recent album , ‘ Get A Grip ’ , released back in April , was their 11th studio long player to date , and they have sold over million discs around the globe . |
| 23 | Their irrelevant experience , coupled with the impossible burdens of office , have contributed to thirty years of policy failure . |
| 24 | This week I rang up to inquire about train times and was assisted by the most delightful man I have encountered in two decades of dealing with BR . |
| 25 | This is the first complication , however , that we have encountered in 150 patients in whom biopsies have been performed . |
| 26 | Investiga-tions here have focused on two aspects of the debate . |
| 27 | Estimates of the family multiplier have ranged from 3.5 dependants per head of household to five , adding to uncertainty and the widespread backbench Tory hostility to the reopening of what one called ‘ a hideous wave ’ of immigration . |
| 28 | Estimates of the family multiplier have ranged from 3.5 dependants per head of household to five , adding to uncertainty and the widespread backbench Tory hostility to the reopening of what one called ‘ a hideous wave ’ of immigration . |
| 29 | Mr Farquhar said : ‘ Over recent times many have spoken of one set of killers as a mirrored image of the other . |
| 30 | In this section we have concentrated on one type of white-collar crime , corporate crime . |