Example sentences of "one [noun sg] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | FOUR Hereford players were sent off yesterday in their 1-1 draw at Northampton — the first time in British history four players from one side have been given the red card . |
| 2 | Three DFC 's and one DSO have been won in Sugar , and just as it began its career with a daylight attack , it finished with another . |
| 3 | Caching of food , on the other hand , does occur , and records of 70 or 80 prey individuals being stored in one place have been described for different predator species ( Quick , 1951 ; Parovshchikov , 1963 ; Chesemore , 1975 ; MacDonald , 1976 ) . |
| 4 | The need to separate the functions of chairman and chief executive has been a raging debate in City of London parlours for the past couple or years , and companies at which the two roles are combined in one person have been under enormous pressure to accept a separation of powers : now the same debate could take off across the Atlantic as Compaq Computer Corp 's ( non-executive ) chairman Ben Rosen tells the House Telecommunications and Finance Subcommittee that the troubles that have beset some of America 's largest companies can be traced to cozy relationships between their boards and their chief executives — he declares that the boards of most US companies are chaired by the company 's chief executive , who picks the board members and controls the agenda — ‘ With an appropriate form of corporate governance , I fully believe that the current problems of IBM , Digital Equipment , Westinghouse and other major American corporations could have been addressed and probably solved far earlier with much reduced ill effects , ’ Rosen told the legislators , adding that a company 's chairman should be a ‘ truly outside independent director , ’ not the chief executive or a former chief executive , and that all board members , with the exception of the chief executive , should also be outsiders , who should get their directors ' fees in the form of shares or options . |
| 5 | Most misspellings in words of more than one syllable have been found by research to occur in the unstressed syllable , especially in the vowel . |
| 6 | This might on the one hand have been positive pressure for improvement ; it could equally have been a move to prevent closure . |
| 7 | It gives me pleasure to confirm that my hon. Friend 's region has been the winner in the past six months , and that waits of more than one year have been reduced by 26 per cent . |
| 8 | The central " roundel " is not round ; the outer , stencilled , circular band is squashed and poorly centred ( thus effecting the irregular drawing of the band of superposed triangles ) ; and it appears that two trees and one animal have been omitted . |
| 9 | One might imagine , perhaps wrongly , that there would have been few craftsmen who either alone or in a group would at any one time have been capable of producing such an item because of the variety of skills required in its production . |
| 10 | There are a number of different groupings , which may be included under the rubric of social movement : neighbourhood councils , which include the gamut of barrio and community organisations aimed at solving problems of urban facilities and also those that are concerned with living standards , particularly in the form of rising prices of food , transport and other necessities ; women 's movements , which have become particularly prominant in Grenada and Nicaragua , but which also exist in more localised forms in other countries ; human rights groups , which have become so well-known on a national scale in Argentina , but are also active at neighbourhood level as for example in São Paulo , where one was formed in 1978 in the barrio of São Miguel after one of the inhabitants was victimised by police brutality ( Singer 1982 ) ; CEBs , as described in Chapter 4 , are spreading now throughout the continent ; regional movements have emerged in countries where the interests of one region have been subordinated to those of other areas as in Peru ; and political protest groups , which in the extreme become guerrilla groups , such as Sendero Luminoso in Peru . |