Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] [art] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chain of kitchenware shops has made a hundred and twenty people redundant and called in the administraors because of financial difficulties . |
| 2 | On the west , they said , the waves had ranged a hundred feet high up the cliffs , scouring the bird-ledges clean and breaking through bridges and tunnels of rock where no gap had existed before . |
| 3 | Parties had to exceed a 5 per cent threshold of votes in either the Czech Lands or Slovakia in order to win seats ; votes for unsuccessful parties were redistributed proportionally among successful ones . |
| 4 | Parties had to exceed the 5 per cent limit to win seats in the Czech National Council , but the threshold in Slovakia was only 3 per cent . |
| 5 | According to the latest survey by the BBC , schools have reported a 30 per cent increase in the numbers of youngsters being permanently excluded from schools across the eastern region . |
| 6 | The French giant has won the large manufacturer category , its Twingo and Zoom cars have picked the two design awards , and it was the runaway victor in the motorsport class . |
| 7 | Half the seats are contested on a constituency basis , and parties have to clear a five per cent hurdle to get a seat . |
| 8 | Many branches have raised a hundred and fifty to two hundred pounds a day , or even more . |
| 9 | One of Britain 's oldest breweries has won a two month battle against a hostile takeover bid . |
| 10 | By Nov. 19 , 59 countries had ratified the 1984 UN Convention against Torture [ see pp. 33619-20 ] , the most recent signatories including Germany , Paraguay , Somalia and Guatemala . |
| 11 | Their differing concerns have led the two groups to dwell upon different regions of the Empire . |
| 12 | The directors ' report for the 52 weeks ended 27 September 1992 states that the directors have reviewed the 1992 property valuation and , in the light of falling values for hotels and for smaller pubs , have been advised that the current estimated value is some £13.5m below book value . |
| 13 | The state economic sector was reported in December 1989 by government economists to have registered a 3 per cent increase in its industrial output in 1989 , and contributed 800,000 million dong to the state budget — 40,000 million dong more than in 1988 . |
| 14 | The closure was ordered last night after an engineer discovered one of two vertical pins holding up one of the bridge supports had developed a six inch crack . |
| 15 | To win a Guinness Earth Science Award , applicants had to supply a 1,500 word essay covering the following subjects : |
| 16 | Within two weeks the Allies had put a million men into France . |
| 17 | Steve Cardownie , Labour recreation convener of the council , said officials had recommended a 2 per cent across-the-board cut for all the cultural grants . |
| 18 | Nearly twenty thousand dogs have entered the one hundred and first Crufts Show , which is expected to pull in a hundred thousand vistors by the time it closes on Sunday . |
| 19 | The Select Committee on Education has found that the lack of specific resources has restricted the 1981 Act 's implementation . |
| 20 | Mr Bowen said that ambulancemen had seen the two bodies lying on the living room floor . |
| 21 | Typically Market Maker the Harvard Securities newsletter , at a time when unemployment figures had reached the 3 1\2 million level , presented this rosy view of the City : " The prospect of stronger cashflow has meant the reintroduction of brandy and cigars after lunch ; Beluga caviar is creeping back onto the menu ; pension fund managers … are starting to hail taxis again , and the other afternoon in Throgmorton Street I actually heard a Blue Button whistling " |
| 22 | THE Tories have created a monster in the health service when top managers have had a 900 per cent pay rise in five years . |
| 23 | Anti-hunt campaigners have presented a nine-thousand signature petition to councillors urging them to ban hunting from council owned land . |
| 24 | Government sources have admitted the 12 EC member nations could emerge from Edinburgh more divided than before . |
| 25 | So tell us which are these other committees have identified the five percent . |
| 26 | Both firms have taken a 45 per cent stake in each other 's truck business . |
| 27 | East Germany 's slender claim to legitimacy rests above all on the fraudulent implication that it is the good non-Nazi , never-Nazi Germany , any Nazi-supporters having joined the four million renegades whose Westward migration almost drained East Germany dry before the Wall went up on 13 August 1961 . |
| 28 | Servants had opened the two huge , white-lacquered doors earlier ; now he stood there , looking into the Hall of Eternal Peace and Tranquillity . |
| 29 | Enterprise Inns have signed a five year supply deal with Bass and all their pubs will continue to stock Bass beers . |
| 30 | Firefighters have rejected a one point five per cent pay offer bringing them closer to a national strike . |