Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pos pn] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE Sunday Correspondent has received its first brace of libel writs , with one from Emma Samms over ‘ Fresh evidence widens Eagle Trust scandal ’ in the 1 October edition and another from Jonathan Maxwell Wylie Samuelson , who claims he was libelled in the same article and also in one headed ‘ Payments to Samuelson Jnr ’ in the 17 September issue . |
| 2 | Eagan , Minnesota-based Cray Research Inc has received its first order from South Africa : the South African Weather Bureau in Pretoria wants a Cray Y-MP2E supercomputer . |
| 3 | A Bill , which would allow companies to charge interest on commercial debts that remain unsettled after 30 days , has received its second Reading . |
| 4 | Behind the scenes , many who sit on the Conservative Benches are betraying their concern even before the Bill has received its Second Reading . |
| 5 | David Feherty , who , like Richardson , has received his first Masters invitation , had much the same experience . |
| 6 | Britain 's largest company , British Telecommunications Plc , has posted its second annual consecutive drop in profits for the year ending March 31 due to hefty redundancy charges , but is cautiously optimistic that the worst may now be over . |
| 7 | The widow of publisher Robert Maxwell has given her first in-depth interview since leaving her home in England . |
| 8 | The new status system for racing under SARA rules has claimed its first victim . |
| 9 | Cooksley was 21 last Saturday , Turner is 24 and Bunce has earned his first cap at 30 . |
| 10 | IN THE closing years of the twentieth century , the wind-swept island of Foula , 20 miles west of the main Shetland group , has reported its first recorded case of vandalism . |
| 11 | The University of Edinburgh has installed its seventh Meiko Scientific Ltd parallel computer — the latest is a 1GFLOPS Computing Surface MPP system worth £500,000 which comprises 12 Intel 80860 CPUs , each with 32Mb RAM . |
| 12 | Fujitsu Ltd has won its first supercomputer order in the US since it entered the market under its own name in March last year rather than through Amdahl Corp : it will lease a VPX220 model to the Geco-Prakla Inc oil exploration unit of Schlumberger Ltd , which will use it for seismic mapping of underground oil deposits ; the value was not given . |
| 13 | MIDDLESBROUGH offshore business Northern Ocean Services has won its first major contract in seven years of operating from the former Smiths Docks site . |
| 14 | CCG has won its first major contract with BT Marine Ltd to provide catering and housekeeping services on board the 4,750 ton support ship the MV Discovery . |
| 15 | CCG HAS won its first offshore contract with BP Exploration , a multi-million pound contract to provide quality hotel standard service for personnel involved in the hook-up of two platforms in the North Sea 's Bruce Field . |
| 16 | In-form at the moment at the Tyneside track is Deneview Dipper , which has won its last two races , including an A1 event last Saturday night . |
| 17 | He has won his first five fights inside the distance and is scheduled to fight again in Phoenix before flying home to Belfast . |
| 18 | THE golfer Sandy Lyle has won his first contract to design an 18-hole championship course , about 25 miles from Berlin . |
| 19 | He , too , is trained by Stephenson , for whom he has won his last four races in smart style , albeit with a tendency to jump right . |
| 20 | He , too , is trained by Stephenson , for whom he has won his last four races in smart style , albeit with a tendency to jump right . |
| 21 | Lindi Memani from the city of East London in the Cape province has won his last twelve fights in a twenty four bout career showing only three defeats . |
| 22 | Willie Jarvis 's three-year-old has won his last two races by a total of six and a half lengths and is still well weighted for further success . |
| 23 | The once moderate grader at Brough Park has astonished everyone with his transition to hurdle racing and has won his last five races . |
| 24 | Sunderland are staging eight open races tonight , including a sparkling £500-to-the-winner 450 metres invitation race which includes former track record holder Gulleen Darkie and Charlie Lister 's Bank Tunnel , which has won his last three opens . |
| 25 | The Carroll Group 's £3m refurbishment of Martin 's Building in Water Street , Liverpool , has secured its first major letting . |
| 26 | Howard thinks to himself that he must write to his children tonight and tell them that he has seen his first angels . |
| 27 | ROYAL decorator Nina Campbell has written her first book . |
| 28 | Terence Stamp has written his first novel |
| 29 | TERENCE Stamp has written his first novel , The Night , to be published in February . |
| 30 | The scriptwriter of My Beautiful Laundrette and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid has written his first published novel which , like the two films , is plump with challenging statements about class , race , and sex . |