Example sentences of "has [verb] [prep] [art] [n mass] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Marshall , the CEGB 's former chairman who has resigned with a £250,000 payoff , said the lower return would be especially disappointing to staff who had ‘ devoted their customary high level of professional commitment to preparations for privatisation ’ . |
| 2 | Acre for acre the sea is more productive than the land , despite the damage human greed has done to the herring fishery , and threatens to do to the stock of mackerel as well . |
| 3 | The pressure for an insurance market settlement of the £305 million losses from Dick Outhwaite 's syndicates has intensified after the $50million threat of legal action against the corporation of Lloyd 's for breach of fiduciary duty from US investors . |
| 4 | This , he said , has translated into a 22% improvement in earnings per share to 17.7 pence . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most remarkable achievement of OSO is not only that it has continued as a headquarters unit functioning from Glasgow for so long , but that it survived the Thatcher era as an interventionist wing of Government intended to nudge work in the direction of British industry . |
| 6 | GRAND METROPOLITAN , the international food and drinks group , has put in a £150m bid for the Whyte & Mackay spirits business being sold by leisure group Brent Walker . |
| 7 | Allen Commercial Developments , which has a 50% stake in Ebor Estates , has benefitted from the £2.5m sale of an Ebor development in Wakefield . |
| 8 | The relationship with HP ( which HP has cemented with an 8% equity stake ) , will contribute around 5% to Sequoia 's figures this year , expected to rise quickly to 20% when the PA fault-tolerant boxes come on stream . |