Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
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 The new status system for racing under SARA rules has claimed its first victim .
7 Cooksley was 21 last Saturday , Turner is 24 and Bunce has earned his first cap at 30 .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 THE golfer Sandy Lyle has won his first contract to design an 18-hole championship course , about 25 miles from Berlin .
11 Howard thinks to himself that he must write to his children tonight and tell them that he has seen his first angels .
12 ROYAL decorator Nina Campbell has written her first book .
13 Terence Stamp has written his first novel
14 TERENCE Stamp has written his first novel , The Night , to be published in February .
15 Why should n't Fanshawe just have said to his wife , ‘ This young lady has missed her last train and since she lives in London I said we 'd give her a lift ’ ?
16 And Gordon has done his first deal with his wife Maggie McKernan .
17 The American Association for Recorded Sound Collections has made its second Lifetime Achievement award to Brian Rust , citing him as probably the most prolific discographer in the world and recognizing his extraordinary contribution to the field .
18 Mountain View , California-based X-Window System terminal specialist Network Computing Devices Inc has made its first acquisition and has filed to go public with an initial offer of 2.5m shares at between $12 and $14 a share .
19 Gulfstream Aerospace has made its first sale of a Gulfstream IV business jet to the U.S. Air Force .
20 The RAF has made its first parachute drops in Britain since fire destroyed sixty percent of the parachutes used by the Armed Forces .
21 MICHAEL Heseltine , the Trade Secretary , has made his first decision in the new office .
22 The new Education Secretary has made his first school visit since taking office .
23 After he has made his first claim for Landor , Pound writes two paragraphs of the sort that have provoked near-apoplexy , because they have not been taken in the spirit that Pound intended :
24 ‘ The residue of my estate , including Merchiston Lodge and its contents other than those already specified , together with the grounds in which it is set , I bequeath to the one person who has made my last days worth living , Miss Theodosia Kyte . ’
25 The Racal spin-off has connected its 750,000th subscriber and is set to top 1m .
26 HOME ALONE star Macaulay Culkin has ditched his first love .
27 York-born and bred Charlotte Bailey , who lives off Burton Stone Lane , has celebrated her 100th birthday surrounded by relatives .
28 A baby girl who was born sixteen weeks premature and weighed less than a bag of sugar has celebrated her first birthday .
29 The Caredocs partnership between Cleveland Ambulance and GPs in the county has celebrated its first birthday .
30 TOBACCO and insurance giant BAT Industries has celebrated its 90th birthday by smashing through the £1bn profits barrier in the first nine months of the year .
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