Example sentences of "[num] has [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amazingly , 1986 has seen a reappearance of the singer-songwriter , with Peter Case , Stan Ridgway and Andy White receiving more than a smattering of applause . |
| 2 | Compared to previous years 1993 has seen a flurry of activity , with a medley of reports and debates on issues such as the economic impacts of hosting international facilities , returns on research and development spending , and various reviews of government expenditure , including the funding of the Government 's own research facilities ( see related item on Warren Spring , p4 ) . |
| 3 | The Soviet Union is making strenuous efforts to reduce its dependence on imports , boosting its use of fertilizers to levels above those anywhere else , but its enlistment of poor , fragile land in the battle for self-sufficiency in the early 1970s has meant a loss of land through abandonment in the 1980s , perhaps as much as 13 per cent of the peak grain area . |
| 4 | The European programme for completing the Single European Market by the end of 1992 has raised a number of questions about the labour market . |
| 5 | The creation and enhancement of shareholder value is at the core of Group strategy for the long term — 1992 has seen a watershed in the Group 's achievement of this aim . |
| 6 | 1992 has seen a number of developments on this front . |
| 7 | It seems that even the toxic cloud that rose over Seveso in 1976 has had a silver lining … |
| 8 | with System Ten has announced a family of control servers which will enable us to control this network of servers and clients as if it was a single machine . |
| 9 | The impending launch of MS-DOS 6 has upset a lot of utility program developers — after all , they made their money plugging the holes Microsoft left in the operating system . |
| 10 | If the beneficiary dies after the passing of the Finance Act , 1975 , then of course for CTT purposes any determination or disposal of interest which has taken place since 25/3/74 has constituted a transfer of value and in addition if he is entitled at his death to a beneficial interest in possession in any property remaining in settlement that property falls to be included in the aggregate of the estate immediately before his death , a transfer of value of which he is treated as having made at that time . |
| 11 | In group B , one game taking place tonight in England , West Bromwich Albion two , Padova one , on sixteen and an own goal by after twenty eight but on twenty nine has pulled a goal back for Padova , it 's two one . |
| 12 | Now a group of about 4,000 former residents of the institutions in the 1950s and 1960s has filed a lawsuit against seven religious orders that operated a dozen orphanages or mental hospitals , accusing them of physical , sexual and psychological abuse and seeks damages of almost £1 billion . |
| 13 | A WOMAN aged 61 has had a baby son . |
| 14 | The Education Reform Act 1988 has produced a degree of prescription and central control to which the government was apparently resistant only a couple of years before its enactment . |
| 15 | A publican or tobacconist who , in good faith , sells his goods to a 15-year-old who looks 20 has committed a crime , unless he successfully employs the permitted defence that he sold the goods innocently . |
| 16 | So the 1980s has seen a betrayal of primary health care at the very same time as more and more lip-service has been paid to the idea . |
| 17 | Beer consumption in the early 1980s has shown a decline . |
| 18 | The profound learning experience which occurred during the early 1980s has established a style of operation and a mutual receptivity to change which Pilkingtons believe will transform the company from a reactive to a proactive organization capable of dealing with market uncertainty . |