Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 AN OUTBREAK of bubonic plague in north-western Uganda has killed 33 people in a week .
2 With the depressed semiconductor market in Japan , NEC has reassigned 100 people in its plants to different jobs , but has not cut jobs as its overseas competitors have done .
3 2 am , Caithness and Sutherland : Agricultural home of the Dounreay reactor , Caithness and Sutherland has had six MPs since the war — from as many different parties .
4 Because Jack Sangston had counted thirteen people instead of twelve ?
5 BRITISH Telecom has given another £25,000 to help the innovative Botanic Centre lay down firm roots in Middlesbrough .
6 Harris Corp Computer Systems unit in Fort Lauderdale , Florida has added new 32Mb and 64Mb memory modules for its Night Hawk 4800 real-time computers , increasing the maximum capacity to 512Mb from 128Mb .
7 A spokesman said Thomsons had flown 114 people out of the Bahamas .
8 England had lost two series to Australia and looked a fairly ordinary outfit ; despite their experience in Australia , West Indies looked to have the better all-round team , and Greig 's ‘ forecast ’ seemed altogether ill-advised .
9 Simon Winter has raised two people from the dead .
10 Thames has sacked 300 staff , Central 600 .
11 Shelley has performed these works consistently in live concerts and broadcasts , so has obviously formulated his ideas and polished the interpretations well .
12 But Sir Ian later learned that Mr Samuels had put another £15,000 of chambers ' funds into the building society account in 1985 .
13 Local councils in the United Kingdom had lost some £80,000,000 as a result of the BCCI closure .
14 President Bush has said Allied aircraft are ready to attack again if the need should arise .
15 For most of its history , Ushaw has educated lay people as well as intending priests ( though there has been a gap in the tradition since 1973 ) .
16 Despite his withdrawal , Perot had spent some $500,000 per month maintaining a skeleton campaign structure which included 64 offices across the country , and his supporters had filed petitions ensuring that his name had been included on the ballot in every state .
17 Trading was helped by the release of August 's reduced retail sales figures showing that interest rates are beginning to bite .
18 And police on Merseyside have arrested thirteen people today in connection with the sale of the drug crack .
19 Scheduled for launch in 1995 , Britain has contributed some £70 million .
20 France had returned 2,246 kg of gold to Lithuania on Oct. 4 , 1991 [ see also p. 38465 ] .
21 Although Iraq had paid some $1,300 million ( or roughly one-half ) of the money for the ships , their delivery had been blocked by the imposition in 1986 of an Italian embargo on lethal weaponry to Iran and Iraq .
22 It said that Iran had executed 224 people between January and July 1992 , at least 66 of whom had been put to death for political reasons , and that at least 199 members of the minority Baha'i community had been killed during " systematic " persecution of their sect .
23 D'Arcy had invested some £250,000 of his own money in the enterprise , and felt that it was ‘ money that I shall never see again' .
24 BNFL has reprocessed 1–930 kg of material or overseas customers in this list plus Italy and Canada .
25 Mills had murdered more people than just my father .
26 Alan Sutton has appointed new sales reps for every region : David Thompson ( ) will cover the north of England ; Paul Field ( ) the Midlands ; Nigel Britton ( ) London ; David Wightman ( ) the south east ; Terry Boyce ( ) the south west and Wales ; and Jim Millar ( ) Scotland .
27 POSC has established common data and access ( SQL-based ) models for developers and suppliers to incorporate in their solutions derived from its members ' data processing requirements POSC says the models will allow different departments within an organisation to share applications and data .
28 Nintendo 's Super Mario has achieved worldwide sales of more than 100 million games , and will soon be immortalised by Bob Hoskins in a Hollywood movie .
29 Over the past two years , she pointed out , Saatchi had purchased major works by many of those British painters whose rise to prominence has been such a striking feature of recent years : Saatchi has bought work by , among others , Frank Auerbach , Lucian Freud , Leon Kossoff and Howard Hodgkin .
30 The OPEC president , Algerian Minister for Mines , Saddek Boussena , called for production cuts of 1,000,000-1,500,000 bpd as the production levels in April had reached 23,500,000 bpd .
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