Example sentences of "has [verb] the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If she has to wear the hired 1920s costumes for Countess Maritza it will be disastrous . ’ |
| 2 | The company , which sold a record 508 cattle through its Electronic Auctions Systems Europe franchise on Thursday , has given the necessary six months notice to the franchise-holding ANM Group , Aberdeen . |
| 3 | The Elswick Harrier , who was 40 in January , has won the traditional 5.9 mile from Balmbra 's Music Hall in the centre of Newcastle to the Geordie Ridley public house in Blaydon four times . |
| 4 | But although Mansell has won the first four races this season , he 's trying not to be over-confident about making it five . |
| 5 | Palacio has won the last two , but I doubt whether he has much ambition left to extend McMillan past the eighth round . |
| 6 | Reid has won the last two Ulster rounds in the series at Temple and the Mid-Antrim 150 while James Courtney sneaked in to take the round at Dundalk . |
| 7 | How Basil Cottle 's guide to the French Cathedrals might look — when he has seen the remaining 40 episcopal seats . |
| 8 | What makes Ross Perot think that he can get a handle on the US budget deficit that has defeated the last two administrations ? |
| 9 | Notts County manager Mick Walker has named the same fourteen that were on duty at the City ground on Saturday for tonight 's journey to Wolves . |
| 10 | Big Ben has missed the past two finals , through injury , but showed himself right back to his best with a victory in the recent Tampa Invitational . |
| 11 | Allen , who has missed the last four games , said : ‘ I must admit I was a little concerned and went to see the same specialist that did the operation on my groin before . |
| 12 | Anderton , who has yet to score in the League , has missed the last five matches in which Spurs have extended an unbeaten run to seven games while beating the likes of Liverpool and Blackburn . |
| 13 | Saints ’ coach Mike McClennan also hopes Kiwi George Mann , who has missed the last five matches with a back injury , will be fit to resume . |
| 14 | Mardenborough , who has missed the last three games with a medial ligament injury , could be sidelined again after he pulled out of Wednesday 's reserve game at the last minute . |
| 15 | The Draft Directive has adopted the same 50 mg/litre nitrate standard as the Drinking Water Directive and proposes the designation of ‘ zones ’ that are ‘ vulnerable ’ to being polluted with nitrate up to 50 mg/litre , either directly or indirectly . |
| 16 | For the first time Camilla has made the top 20 in the 1992 league table of Christian names , entering the spotlight at No 13 . |
| 17 | One fundamental assumption is that the atmosphere has had the same 14 C concentration in the past as now , and this in turn assumes , amongst other things , that the production rate of 14 C has remained constant . |
| 18 | ‘ Instead of resting on its laurels when most other makers are talking increasingly about safety , Volvo has used the impressive 850 and its evocative launch campaign to broaden its appeal significantly ’ |
| 19 | they 're about the same , so when the hundred gram bar has got the extra ten per cent it 's it 's just just makes it the better bargain , er , they 're not losing much on that cos they save on the wrapping , so it probably costs them the same |
| 20 | Molecular biology 's own favourite philosopher , Gunther Stent , has called the late 1950s and early 1960s the classical period of molecular biology . |
| 21 | On to golf now and Colin Montgomerie has reached the last four of the Toyota World Matchplay at Wentworth . |
| 22 | Evelyn Lachennes widow of a British war-time spy , Pierre Lachennes has devoted the last ten years to studying the effects of chemical weapons on civilian populations wherever they 've been used . |
| 23 | A novelist I know has devoted the last 20 years to writing stuff that is completely impossible to film , with the result that he has not been published for some time . |
| 24 | Kirgizstan 's decision last month to pull out of the rouble zone has infuriated the other four . |
| 25 | Children born in the United Kingdom to students , visitors or illegal immigrants no longer automatically acquire British citizenship at birth , but they will still be able to register as British citizens if either parent later becomes a citizen or settles in the United Kingdom , or if the child has spent the first ten years of its life in the country . |
| 26 | Instead , she has spent the last two years working on a book chronicling Basque life through its kitchens and markets . |
| 27 | It started life as a graduation film and he has spent the last two years finishing it . |
| 28 | Britain has spent the last 100 years fighting against the facts of German power : indeed our modern national identity has to a great extent been forged in the fires of the great conflict with Germany while our sense of our moral worth rests in part on our role in the defeat of Nazism . |
| 29 | A friend of mine in her late thirties has spent the last five years building up a successful business . |
| 30 | Dr Mitchell has spent the last five months getting people to write to the Royal Mail Stamp Programme Manager in London to lobby for a set of stamps honouring his father 's work . |