Example sentences of "[num] [noun] [conj] has " in BNC.
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| 1 | Capital transfer tax was abolished in the 1986 Budget and has been replaced by inheritance tax which , for those who can remember it , seems largely modelled on the old estate duty . |
| 2 | From the seamless opening shot — which lasts eight minutes and has no cuts — the themes and characters of The Player are laid before us with masterful skills as Altman glides and circles the camera around a studio car park , catching snatches of information and fragments of conversation ( a film is being pitched with the description ‘ Ghost meets The Manchurian Candidate ’ . |
| 3 | The chicks have taken Indian names after regions of their natural habitat , Sisquoc was born on 30 March and has more than doubled his weight of 201.9 grams . |
| 4 | The Chief Secretary has spoken for 22 minutes but has not mentioned the autumn statement . |
| 5 | Whereas the CPC national needs 65 hours direct teaching or equivalent for the 1½-hours examination comprising 60 questions , the CPC international needs 30 hours and has only 30 questions in a one-hour examination . |
| 6 | Dell Computer Corp launched a colour notebook computer at $2,000 : the Dimension NL25C has a 25MHz 80386 microprocessor , 9″ screen , weighs 6.6 lbs and has a rechargeable NiCad battery that is claimed to run five hours between charges . |
| 7 | It has been operating for 12 months and has assembled a team of 30 engineering staff . |
| 8 | We must pay tribute also to the United Nations , which has been revitalised over the past 12 months and has started to play its part in trying to unravel and resolve the problems in Yugoslavia . |
| 9 | In the first case a woman is seeking compensation for the death in 1962 of her 10-month-old daughter from leukaemia ; the girl 's father worked as a fitter at Sellafield for nearly 30 years and has since also died of cancer . |
| 10 | She has been a civil servant for over 30 years and has worked at the town 's county court for 24 years . |
| 11 | He has been involved with the organisation for 30 years and has been its regional head for a decade . |
| 12 | It delivers 300 dpi and has two speeds — 120 characters per second in letter quality mode , and 180 characters per second in draft mode . |
| 13 | He has been with BMK for 12 years and has previously worked in sales and production . |
| 14 | The cDNA comprises 2,560 nucleotides and has an open reading frame encoding a 659-amino-acid polypeptide beginning with the initiation codon at nucleotide position 133 . |
| 15 | The new association has 30 members and has elected as its president Maris Ozolins , whose company Vaga is contracted with Macmillan to produce ELT material . |
| 16 | And Bannister , who weighs 22 stone and has size 17 feet , could be Cadle 's secret weapon . |
| 17 | He 's conscious that safety-critical items such as tyres and brakes must n't be skimped on , but he 's not overly concerned about sticking to the recommended 6000-mile service schedule ; so far the Sierra has on average been serviced every 13,500 miles and has never seen the inside of a Ford dealer 's workshop . |
| 18 | The company is currently operating eight sites and has just moved to a new office in South Normanton , Derbyshire . |
| 19 | Short 's preparation has been under way for six months and has been intensive . |
| 20 | The challenge will be set on 7 December and has to be carried out by 22 December . |
| 21 | The hon. Gentleman is in no position to talk about opt-outs , considering that his party has opted out of every necessary decision to assist this country in the past 10 years and has backed every inflationary wage claim , every piece of trade union militancy and every policy that would do damage to Britain and its future . |
| 22 | This farming systems has proved self-sustainable for the past 2,000 years and has altered little except that summer ( wet season ) rice crops were once combined in the same fields with winter ( dry season ) legumes , whereas the winter crop is now wheat . |
| 23 | It has been known for its medicinal properties for 2,000 years and has been used by Russian cosmonauts since the 1970s . |
| 24 | Erm got fined a hundred and ninety six pounds and has got to pay me fifty pound compensation . |
| 25 | Here we have broken with the convention of presenting 187 Os/ 186 Os in favour of 187 Os/ 188 Os. 188 Os can be measured with greater precision than 186 Os and has fewer isobaric interferences . |
| 26 | The Restaurants & Leisure division of Whitbread plc employs approximately 40000 people and has five UK businesses , including the Thresher drinks retailing chain with 1660 shops nationwide , 250 Beefeater family restaurants , TGI Friday 's the American Bistro and 282 Pizza Hut restaurants . |
| 27 | This latter can accommodate up to 100 people and has video projecting facilities . |
| 28 | Fed-Ex , described by NCD as ‘ one of the largest users of transaction processing systems in the world ’ , employs some 90,000 staff and has revenues of $7.55 billion . |
| 29 | The group employs some 33,000 people and has over 950 outlets , excluding franchises . |
| 30 | The imager was selected from six finalists of the 1991 competition and has gone through a two-year production stage to prove its commercial viability . |