Example sentences of "[num] [noun] have [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.

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31 One person had evidently come to a decision .
32 One spell had indeed leapt from the crackling pages and lodged itself in the dark recesses of his brain .
33 One government has already fallen over green issues .
34 One company had recently moved from the centre of London and had curtailed its use of libraries .
35 But as two months had already elapsed since the end of the previous contracts , this would mean that for some weeks the players would be getting more than the permitted £4 a week maximum .
36 Four parties had previously collaborated with the SED within the National Front : ( i ) the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) which merged with the West German CDU on Oct. 1 [ see p. 37761 ] ; ( ii ) the Democratic Farmers ' Party of Germany ( DBD ) , whose chair , Günther Maleuda , resigned on June 25 and was temporarily replaced by Ulrich Junghanns pending a merger with the CDU ; ( iii ) the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany ( LDPD ) , which renamed itself the Liberal Democratic Party and joined the new League of Free Democrats in February 1990 and merged with the West German FDP in August [ see p. 37661 ] ; and ( iv ) the National Democratic Party of Germany ( NDPD ) which joined the League of Free Democrats in March [ see pp. 37260 ; 37302 ] .
37 The two companies have now merged into one — Grupo Cruzcampo — with three divisions , covering sales , marketing and operations .
38 According to the report , the two countries had also agreed on a date for Vietnam to restart repaying its debts to Japan .
39 The British Government had cut the overseas aid budget by more money than the two charities had ever raised in their entire histories — and neither the media nor the general public had produced a murmur of protest .
40 THE opening of the Petersfield bypass is expected to be cause for celebration but two charities have already swung into action by arranging a joint fund-raising day before the road opens .
41 In a letter of 1955 Tolkien had rather laughed at the idea that Willow-man and the wights were agents of the Dark Lord : ‘ Can not people imagine things hostile to men and hobbits who prey on them without being in league with the Devil ! ’
42 By 1983 surveys had also begun in the Netherlands , France , Austria , Switzerland , Luxembourg and Italy , as well as in many Eastern European countries where short-range pollution involving sulphur dioxide and NOx was still a major problem .
43 The tremendously exciting tussle for the division two title has finally ended with Farnham Central ‘ C ’ finishing up one point ahead of R.A.E .
44 Eamonn de Stafort , public relations officer for SPAG , said two cattle had already died from lead poisoning but it was not certain whether dust or water pollution was responsible : ‘ What we are worried about is what will happen when the lake starts to dry up completely ’ .
45 Another 14 people have since died in two apparent revenge attacks on vehicles in the area .
46 The physical differences between the two species have therefore evolved within that time-scale .
47 In 1919 Lawrence had already written to , of all people , Curzon , confiding that his ‘ own ambition ’ was that the Arabs ‘ should be our first brown dominion and not our last brown colony ’ .
48 And tonight is the first time the two girls have ever gone past the ground floor .
49 Murray wants to opt out of the deal but two deadlines have already passed for Kiam to raise the money and now a third , and perhaps final , one has fallen due this month , the end of the football season .
50 Despite these setbacks , it was announced in Lisbon on May 15 that the two sides had formally confirmed to the Portuguese Prime Minister , Anibal Cavaco Silva , that they had accepted the ceasefire .
51 The two sides have already met in the league , Telford winning 2–0 at the International Stadium , before Cassidy 's reign began .
52 These two forests have therefore survived into the twentieth century by a remarkable process of transformation .
53 The two women have already met in their twin outfits .
54 Two ministers had recently died in office : Franco Piga ( 63 ) , the Minister for State Participation ( first appointed as non-party Minister of Industry in Fanfani 's April 1987 caretaker administration — see p. 35587 ) , had died suddenly in December 1990 [ see p. 38021 ] .
55 Broadly , Wendler 's argument is that these four factors have favourably intersected for a sub-set of technologies — Unix , C and TCP/IP — in large — scientific , engineering , government and education — but niche markets .
56 Over the past five years , the run life of ESPs supplied by Reda for Forties Echo has gradually increased to an average of 250 days .
57 The relevant provisions of the 1968 Act have never applied in the magistrates ' court and , apart from those proceedings covered by the 1991 Order , hearsay evidence is only admissible on very limited grounds .
58 Major changes in organizations in the last 20 years have often led to dissonance over expectations .
59 Since 1947 breeding has also occurred at the following sites : Itchenor , up to 18 nests from 1946 to 1951 ; Chichester gravel pits , one nest in 1960 ; Fynings Moor , Rogate , two nests in 1963 and 1964 ; Beauport Park , Hastings , four or five nests in 1950 ; Great Park Wood , Udimore ( one of the original sites of the present Leasam colony ) , irregularly occupied until 1960 by up to nine pairs ; Nuthurst , a pair in 1973 ; Knepp , eight pairs in 1976 Buxted Park , one pair in 1976 .
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