Example sentences of "the [noun sg] has [verb] [art] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The board has recommended a 10% increase in interim dividend to 3.32 pence , compared with 1992 's 3.02 pence . |
| 2 | Primarily the computer has to have a graphics capability , preferably monochrome and as high a resolution as possible . |
| 3 | The housebuilding side of the business has seen a 55pc rise in sales in the first five months of the year over the start of 1992 . |
| 4 | Sales in the UK supermarkets and Savacentre hypermarkets grew by 9.5% — the highest level for five years — and the group has grabbed an 11% market share , up from 10.2% last time . |
| 5 | The group has issued a series of writs against several former ISC employees , including Mr James Guerin , the head of the company at the time of the merger with Ferranti . |
| 6 | If teachers can be encouraged to clarify their thinking and make learning more varied and fun for the children — sharpening and deepening thinking , then this will be because the head has taken the staff along an analytical path that actually raises the level of efficiency and excitement in the classroom . |
| 7 | In previous work , the investigator has developed a means to investigate children 's understanding of recursive beliefs in story characters , that is , whether they can understand that John does not know that Mary knows where the ice cream van is . |
| 8 | Until the 24th there are recent watercolours by Niasami Teraoka at Pamela Auchencloss which mix traditional Japanese techniques with contemporary subject matter ( the artist has done a series , for instance , on AIDS ) and watercolours , pastels and ink drawings by George Baselitz are at Matthew Marks until the 26th . |
| 9 | Since 1983 , the government has funded a series of one-term full-time courses in polytechnics and universities to provide intensive training for designated teachers with specific responsibility for pupils with special needs in ordinary schools ( see Meeting Special Needs in Ordinary Schools by Seamus Hegarty in this series for information on research on evaluation of their effectiveness ) . |
| 10 | Since the early 1980s , the Chinese parliament has enacted four major laws on the protection of the environment , and eight laws on the protection of natural resources , and the government has issued a series of administrative regulations and environmental standards . |
| 11 | The Government has launched a £1.25 million publicity campaign with TV and radio adverts . |
| 12 | Local operators will take you in four-wheel-drive vehicles to explore the near outback , where the river has carved a series of spectacular gorges into a vast , rolling sand plain . |
| 13 | This container is fitted to one of the man 's legs shortly before the drop , and is lowered from the body on a rope once the parachutist has left the aircraft . |
| 14 | Already the fund has broken the £100,000 mark but it needs £200,000 more before it can add the pledges from the national organisations . |
| 15 | Even when North Yorkshire sites have been short-listed by an investor on quality grounds the county has had no means of matching the financial incentives elsewhere . |
| 16 | The company has made a series of acquisitions in recent years but sold its Skelmersdale Packaging subsidiary , which contributed profits of £1.7m on sales of £12m in 1990 , in a deal worth £11½m in December 1990 . |
| 17 | The company has taken a £47m hit above the line and another £23m below . |
| 18 | The company has won a £24 million contract awarded by the United Overseas Bank for an extension and extensive alterations to its 38-storey Plaza 2 offices in Singapore . |
| 19 | £100,000 grant : The NorthEast has won a £100,000 Government grant for adult education courses run by the Workers Educational Association in schools , community centres and colleges throughout the region . |
| 20 | This is particularly important when Catfish are housed in the aquarium because if the substrate has stagnated the fish living on the substrate are the first to suffer . |
| 21 | The region has won a £3 million contract awarded by Birmingham City Council to repair and redecorate 7078 council homes . |
| 22 | The region has won a £4.1 million contract from News International for refurbishment work at the existing printworks in Virginia Street , London EC1 . |