Example sentences of "[num] [noun] have [vb pp] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The last twelve months has seen a dramatic turnaround in the local climate . |
| 32 | It was only the fourth time that one horse had completed a clear round . |
| 33 | At this point I found myself wondering how anything so ugly could be so beautiful for believe me that one cat had stirred a new urge in me , the excitement of catching something totally new . |
| 34 | Although based in Cardiff , the Welsh National Opera tours extensively , and for the last twelve years has had a regular season in London too . |
| 35 | One policeman had suffered a detached retina from the blast and one onlooker had had a heart attack . |
| 36 | More than one manager has devised a superb presentation only to find that the date was yesterday or the time half an hour earlier . |
| 37 | Already one firm has developed a 30 W source of this type which gives a light like a 100 W light bulb . |
| 38 | And one church has prepared a little presentation or mind-stretching , heart-stretching thought of church and community . |
| 39 | That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way . |
| 40 | One element has caused a great deal of discussion — the two days allowed for an applicant who has been turned down to notify the adjudicator of his wish to appeal and to present the kernel of his or her case . |
| 41 | In six patients the specimens still showed nodular argyrophil cell hyperplasia , and one patient had developed a carcinoid tumour . |
| 42 | One patient had had a positive test before repeat fundoplication , but was now reflux free , and the test was positive in only two patients . |
| 43 | It was a day that twenty one soldiers had waited a long time to see . |
| 44 | One enthusiast has constructed a gallows-like contraption in order to perfect his technique . |
| 45 | At least one school has leased a redundant playground to a local factory for off-street day time parking . |
| 46 | This is how one school has used a formula-based system as a management response to a resource distribution problem . |
| 47 | A most encouraging £650,000 has already been raised and one graduate has promised a major donation . |
| 48 | In all but one of the elections since 1945 , one party has won a absolute majority of the seats and the leader of that party has formed a government . |
| 49 | By the time he was twenty Rasputin had married a local girl and before long had sired four children . |
| 50 | Ben Hope 's impressive 3040 feet has become a meagre 927 metres to satisfy Brussels and Luxembourg , who could n't care less . |
| 51 | Though the last twenty years has seen a major step forward in our understanding of the Scottish Reformation and of Scottish society in the sixteenth century , there is still an extraordinary gulf between the personality and the reign of Mary Queen of Scots . |
| 52 | The last twenty years has seen a major effort , theoretical and observational to understand the evolution of animal societies . |
| 53 | This is undoubtedly the main reason why the last twenty years have seen a steady increase in controls over the mass media , either by government takeover or by censorship and suppression . |
| 54 | Of the 195 members of the Paris Academy of Sciences to be honored with an official eulogy before the Revolution of 1789 , at least twenty percent had received a Jesuit education . |
| 55 | Martell 's studies of the behaviour of radon decay products show that someone who smokes 20 cigarettes per day for 40 years has received a cumulative dose of about 100 rads at tissue sites in the lungs — a dose powerful enough to spark cancer . |
| 56 | Since 1989 defence has taken a growing share of state spending ; the official defence budget has doubled , keeping well ahead of inflation . |
| 57 | More than 1.5 million calls have swamped a free telephone bank set up a month ago by his employees to sign up volunteers . |
| 58 | In December 1991 the two states had negotiated a non-aggression agreement and an accord to prohibit nuclear weapons from the Korean peninsula . |
| 59 | In December 1989 Najibullah had arrested a large number of Khalqi officers whom he suspected of plotting against him [ see p. 37184 ] . |
| 60 | LIVERPOOL 'S under-11 side has made a mixed start to the schools cricket season . |