Example sentences of "have [vb pp] [to-vb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In ten years TAFOS has grown to comprise eight workshops in small communities across Peru , ’ said Mr Müller . |
| 2 | In five generations the Clark family has grown to have 1,000 shareholders speaking for 80 per cent of the company . |
| 3 | Ursprung told a joint meeting of the Royal Society and the Foundation for Science and Technology in London that the Swiss federal government has decided to reverse 17 years of neglect and give basic science a hefty financial boost . |
| 4 | Since she was abandoned by her husband — under Ugandan Native Law a man can freely acquire other wives — Mrs Kizza has had to support nine children with nothing more than the 1,500/ ( £1 ) a week she earns from serving in a bookshop . |
| 5 | 18 Quartet in B flat K.172 , showing the end of first movement where Mozart has had to cancel one bar and cram the rewritten version onto handwritten staves at the end of the page . |
| 6 | A vicar has had to cancel twenty weddings because his church roof is in danger of collapse . |
| 7 | In the past three weeks , Mr Rocard has had to withdraw three bills , at least temporarily , for fear of defeat . |
| 8 | Fashanu has carried the injury for a number of weeks and has had to endure two hours of daily stretching on a rack to ease the pain . |
| 9 | Thomas has had to endure three months of misery , the worst of his career , after the collapse of a £3 million move to Blackburn Rovers which would have set up the Crystal Palace midfielder for life . |
| 10 | Fault-tolerant Unix specialist Sequoia Systems Inc is sinking deeper into the mire and has had to fire 60 people in all parts of the company to cut cost while it looks for new funds to finance its operations . |
| 11 | It is nearing bankruptcy and has had to make 720 employees redundant , which is a sorry state of affairs . |
| 12 | To compensate , the Trust has had to cut forty jobs in its eight sites across the country . |
| 13 | Israel has offered to return 100 deportees immediately and cut the expulsion terms of the remainder to a one-year maximum . |
| 14 | a ) The Training Agency has agreed to support 30 Compacts in Urban Programme Areas in England and Wales with funding . |
| 15 | And the National Rivers Authority has pledged to introduce 200,000 salmon a year for the next four years into the cleaned-up River Tees the first time the fish have been in the river in any numbers in the last 30 years . |
| 16 | A bogus policeman has tried to abduct two children and to extort an on-the-spot fine from a driver . |
| 17 | Easel Corp , Burlington , Massachusetts software engineering tools developer has filed to offer 645,266 shares , all of them coming from existing holders , who acquired the shares in connection with Easel 's acquisition of Enfin Software Corp . |
| 18 | In this particular case , the commanding officer who , to the Pentagon 's distress , would appear to have a human side to his nature , has elected to take twenty-four hours off . |
| 19 | My uncle , with his vast professional knowledge of the saleyard , has managed to find four horses which , although in bad condition — and therefore within our price range — are what ‘ Horse and Hound ’ calls proven performers . |
| 20 | And you 'd got to pay five shillings . |
| 21 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |
| 22 | Leeds Corporation having agreed to purchase 92 Feltham type cars , they were taken out of service and moved to Charlton Works one at a time , so that conduit equipment could be removed and an articulated aircraft carrier lorry was specially adapted to carry each of them to Leeds . |
| 23 | If it turns out to have been effective — and it may not — it will have helped to return one member . |
| 24 | These machines are so rare that one like Ingrid 's , new , could cost £80,000 , and she might have had to wait four years for delivery . |
| 25 | Having won two of this series in the fastest times already , he would have had to finish four seconds behind the steeplechaser Mark Rowland to lose the first prize of £5,000 . |
| 26 | To earn 20 they would have had to straighten 6,200 tights . |
| 27 | Or suppose that A has broken his contract to sell land to B ; here , again , B might have had to bring one action in a Common Law Court for damages , and another in the Chancery to compel specific performance . |
| 28 | Under the old system B might have had to bring two actions against A : in the Common Law Courts to get damages , in the Chancery to get an injunction to forbid the continuance of the building . |
| 29 | As Wilson recalled , his first experience of the courts occurred in April 1889 when he was fined five pounds and costs at Sunderland for having attempted to persuade two seamen to desert from the ss Edmonsley , an incident which Fairplay reported with glee . |
| 30 | Which made it the more regrettable that , in an age when abortion is pressed on one as if it were a free sample , she should have contrived to have four children in six years — unwanted , dubiously parented , ill cared for . |