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

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1 When the Guggenheim Museum reopens on 28 June , Thomas Krens , its director , will have realised the first stage in his ambitious plan of expansion , seeking to establish new stations in North Adams , Massachusetts , Bilbao ( see The Art Newspaper No.17 , April 1992 , p.5 ) and Salzburg , and to enlarge The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice .
2 The Pioneers will by now have completed the first leg of their journey to Cyprus .
3 BY the time you read this article we shall have completed the first training workshop on T.Q.M. designed for directors and a number of senior managers .
4 ‘ I may have to miss the first game but I 'm hoping to get myself a boot made for my left foot with a steel plate in it to protect the toe so that I can practice as soon as I get to India . ’
5 ‘ I think if I had the confidence of 2 or 3 years ago I would have won the 2nd set and probably the match , ’ he said .
6 And the chairman of selectors , whose decision to pick South African rebel Mike Gatting instead of Gower for the winter tour of India sparked a storm of protest , warned : ‘ These people may have won the first battle , but they are approaching a lee shore and there are plenty of rocks on that shore .
7 But although the saintly Tit for Two Tats would have won the first tournament if it had been submitted , it did not win the second .
8 The National Health Service was a genuine concern to many people , and for this and similar reasons , he believed , Margaret Thatcher could not possibly have won the next election for the Tories .
9 Yet you still came across people who thought that South Africa would have won the last World Cup .
10 They must have caught the next wave .
11 Sussex 's Wood gave a good account of herself and should have claimed the second set .
12 More importantly , however , the remains overlay burnt material , while the make-up levels on Site 2 contained Antonine pottery , thus demonstrating that the building(s) were part of an overall design reshaping the town centre , which might also have included the first phase of the defences .
13 Seaman should have saved the first goal , but did make a two world class saves against Berkamp and Rikaard .
14 He would have shot the second man anyway .
15 Erm so federalism is a fairly important principle in American government and that principle , essentially , is , and most of you I hope will have done the first year course politics and policy making where I talked about federalism in general terms that federalism is based upon the notions that in the same territory you can have more than one government and that those governments er are of equal status .
16 However , many philosophers today would probably go along more with Hare 's original position and say that although Kant may well have answered the third sort of question ( page 98 ) well , he has not adequately answered the second ( still less , it would generally be thought , the first ) .
17 I could n't go without the gear , so I 'd have missed the first day .
18 He might have missed the first onslaught of punk , but he caught a lot of its stylish offsprings , especially Postcard Records ' Orange Juice and Josef K. He was smitten with the sound of rhythm guitars meshed together to form pop melodies and was beginning to realise precisely how he wanted his own band to sound .
19 I would have to sell the second vase .
20 As the car chugged down the M1 motorway I stopped cursing my bad luck and thought of how we could have made the first descent if only we had concentrated on the job in hand and not got the press involved or told so many people all about our daring endeavour .
21 Lawrence would have preferred the first leg on Sunday , March 1 .
22 But there again , he never sent her to the really big houses because , as he said , if there was anything going , the servants would have had the first pick .
23 He might have had the last word , but he had n't really forgiven her for her temerity in trying to put him down .
24 Few , including me , would have thought the third rate guitar outfit of old capable of such divine inspiration but ‘ Screamadelica ’ sounds suspiciously like the baggy generation 's answer to ‘ Sgt. Pepper ’ .
25 If one 's opponent has anti-tank weapons I should have thought the last thing to send in would be tanks .
26 With a son safely born , Georg Ludwig had to participate in campaigns against the Turks in the east and Louis XIV of France as part of the price to be paid , without which Hanover would not have become the ninth electorate of the Holy Roman Empire in 1692 .
27 He would have become the first show jumper to win more than £1 million in prize money : at present his total earnings are about £50,000 short of that .
28 We were looked at with the same sense of distrust that must have greeted the first plumber who installed running water there .
29 ‘ I must have spent the last week talking to hundreds of players .
30 Accordingly he submitted that if the jury accepted that the first appellant had murdered the deceased , then it necessarily followed that they should have acquitted the second appellant .
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