Example sentences of "have [verb] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amnesty 's British Section has received dozens of letters concerning Vic Williams . |
| 2 | Since its launch in April , the Breathe Easy club has received thousands of letters and calls from people with lung problems . |
| 3 | The broken tanker has leaked thousands of tonnes of crude oil and threatens to destroy the wildlife paradise of the Shetlands . |
| 4 | Judge Vaughn Walker has dismissed three of the surviving claims in Apple Computer Inc 's suit against Microsoft Corp and Hewlett-Packard Co : Apple had originally alleged infringement in 189 elements of Windows , claiming they duplicated the look and feel of the Macintosh ; the judge has now removed the remaining three Microsoft Windows features — overlapping windows , animation of windows and icon movements — from the suit and reaffirmed his earlier decision that the jury shall apply a virtual identity standard in comparing the works as a whole ; a pre-trial conference has been set for June 28 in the suit . |
| 5 | as if deliberately to disconcert the semi-finalists , the world champion , Garry Kasparov , has registered one of his most impressive performances . |
| 6 | Creditors has travelled thousands of miles to attend this hearing . |
| 7 | It really is many happy returns for Brian who has travelled thousands of miles from his home in Tasmania to wish his twin happy birthday . |
| 8 | John Winkler , a well known marketing expert has taught thousands of executives to learn to cope with and even enjoy the bargaining process . |
| 9 | Each truck has to carry 26 of them , together weighing over a ton . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , to bolster his sagging fortunes , he has sacked 12 of his 22 ministers , including his brother , Mr Yusuf Ozal , and a cousin , Mr Husnu Dogan . |
| 11 | Cooper , who has lopped six to nine inches off his action , made four birdies in his last six holes , with his four at the long 16th the proverbial whisker away from a three . |
| 12 | Since 1975 my unit has examined thousands of sheep livers and faecal samples from throughout the islands , without seeing signs of liverfluke . , |
| 13 | In fact the search for an explanation has provoked one of the widest-ranging and most interesting debates of recent years in economic geography . |
| 14 | As a first step , the NRA has given one of the companies , Thames Water , until September to reduce abstraction from the Darent River in Kent , one of the areas worst affected by the combined pressures of increased demand and the four-year drought in the region . |
| 15 | Weinstock has listed fourteen of the possible motives authors have for citing the work of others . |
| 16 | The peeling away of Upper House 's grubby skin has exposed dozens of small but fine details which have formed the basis for the workshop 's designs . |
| 17 | Thus , the structuring of a wide range of task-related paths through a GIS has formed one of the main development objectives in this project . |
| 18 | THE boss of a top North East hairdressing chain has claimed thousands of youth training places are in jeopardy because of a lack of Government cash . |
| 19 | Yesterday Mr Mandela began a three-day tour of the Natal Midlands , cockpit of the virtual civil war between the ANC and Inkatha which has claimed thousands of lives over the last three years . |
| 20 | The gypsies are without a homeland or a fixed seat of government — and they are falling victim to a strain of virulent nationalism which , since 1990 , has claimed dozens of lives and left hundreds homeless . |
| 21 | A SERIES OF BOOKS HAS RESCUED HUNDREDS OF BUILDINGS FROM DERELICTION . |
| 22 | The Landmark Trust has rescued dozens of follies and temples from decay , ranging from the Swiss Cottage at Endsleigh in Devon , to the pineapple at Dunmore near Stirling , in Scotland . |
| 23 | Since 1985 , when the Palais moved into the cylindrical Expo ‘ 67 French Pavilion on the Ile Notre-Dame , the showcase has attracted hundreds of thousands of spectators to large thematic exhibitions such as ‘ Rameses ’ ( 1985 ) , ‘ Gold of the Thracian Horsemen ’ ( 1987 ) , ‘ The Aztecs ’ ( 1988 ) , and ‘ Rome : 1,000 Years of Civilization ’ ( 1992 ) . |
| 24 | The Physics Challenge at Marton Sixth Form College , Middlesbrough , has attracted 14 to 16-year-olds over three two-day periods . |
| 25 | Jodami was entered in the Martell Cup at Aintree , which has attracted 12 of the 13 finishers in the Gold Cup . |
| 26 | More recently the Solstice has attracted thousands of New Age travellers , but they 've been banned this year by the same injuctions that now govern Castlemorton common in Worcestershire , where an illegal festival just over a year ago attracted 20,000 travellers . |
| 27 | In the UK , the Reed Exhibition Co Ltd has cancelled one of its biggest events , the PC-oriented Which Computer Show , which was to have taken place at the NEC , Birmingham this April . |
| 28 | The What Personal Computer team has picked five of the top shareware utilities . |
| 29 | Reading-based standards organisation X/Open Co Ltd has picked one of Digital Equipment Corp 's key transaction processing technologies as part of its standard for distributed transaction processing : X/Open has licensed the company 's Remote Task Invocation technology , a protocol for implementing remote procedure calls developed for the Multivendor Integration Architecture consortium ; it is the basis of the Transactional Remote Procedure Call X/Open just released and unites OSI/TP and Software Foundation 's Distributed Computing Environment . |
| 30 | X/Open Co Ltd has picked one of DEC 's key transaction processing technologies as part of its standard for distributed transaction processing . |