Example sentences of "have [vb pp] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ebmeier et al ( 1988 ) have given the first account of the setting up and running of a Timbury type unit serving a local area in Inverurie . |
| 2 | After 1870 industrialization and urbanization entered a new phase , which economic historians have designated the second industrial revolution to distinguish it from the coming of industry to Britain over a century earlier . |
| 3 | We have completed the first four parts in one day with groups of experienced trainees , though this makes for a very hard and long day . |
| 4 | It is extraordinary that that has been resisted even before we have received the first results . |
| 5 | Companies as diverse as IBM and Amstrad have reported the first full-year losses in their histories . |
| 6 | Previous albums have included the first eight now on Mercury , the final couple on Silvertone . |
| 7 | Recent accessions have included the first American edition of Joseph Black 's Lectures on the elements of Chemistry , ( Philadelphia : 1807 ) ; a Paris edition of John Barclay 's Argenis printed in 1621 , and an item believed to have been printed in Edinburgh about 1800 entitled ‘ A Pleasant Humourous and satyrical poem ’ , part one of which calls on young women to ‘ embrace the pure and holy state of matrimony ’ : part two ‘ contains excellent directions in the choice of a husband … ’ |
| 8 | The man known as El Matador by his rivals , for his uncompromising attacking style behind the wheel , had won only three previous World Championship events this year , but those have included the last two rallies , Catalonia two weeks ago and now the RAC . |
| 9 | Altogether , I have enjoyed the first day more than I anticipated . |
| 10 | The first thirteen babies to claim them have won the first of their competitions . |
| 11 | The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened . |
| 12 | South Korea have won the last three tournaments . |
| 13 | Australia have won the last four tournaments . |
| 14 | If so , there is much rethinking to be done , for the theoretical paradigms that have dominated the last twenty years have nothing resembling an adequate critical framework for dealing with a factor as flagrantly nonabstract , as defiantly corporeal , as embarrassingly tangible as this . |
| 15 | He is beginning to move on from the subjects which have dominated the last couple of years , feeling that he has gleaned all the experience he can from them . |
| 16 | Maybe they 'll elope to Gretna Green if they ca n't find a vacant Martello tower , then it will leave me with more time for my Roman friend and dear Boudicca not to mention Dorothy Wordsworth 's Journals of which I have perused the first paragraph six times yet can not seem to recall it to mind . |
| 17 | So far we have considered the first three elements . |
| 18 | The idea that John was trying out his ideas in private first , getting them carefully developed before he actually faced his cast , is confirmed by another letter to Hanns in which he wrote , ‘ I have written the first record , and am starting rehearsals for S. T . |
| 19 | By the time we have fed the second and , thank God , final group of a dozen we are frozen . |
| 20 | With four games still to play , the side have clinched the Third Division title and promotion to Division Two . |
| 21 | I have done the first … |
| 22 | But when the present tourists have gone and we have seen the last of Gary Freeman and Duane Mann , Esene Faimalo and Francis Leota there will be a sense of regret . |
| 23 | ‘ The doctors are tremendously impressed with his fitness and health , so I do n't think we have seen the last of him , ’ she said at home in Newmarket yesterday . |
| 24 | Defence cut-backs have seen the last of the choppers in a resident form and the SAAF now maintains a Forward Air Force Command Post with a basic infra-structure to handle SAAF operations from the airport , should they be required . |
| 25 | ‘ How strange , ’ the majordomo was saying , ‘ another honourable Inquisitor presenting his credentials so soon after we have seen the last one off ! ’ |
| 26 | But in that case the expression " I was alone " would have been banal : it is only after we have felt the isolation of the speaker in all its particularity , and have seen the last vestige of human life disappear over the horizon , that we can understand the force of the simple statement . |
| 27 | In the Hattie Jacques Cocktail Bar tonight , there are probably wry smiles on the faces of those who think they have seen the last of Leslie Bence rucking into the hurly-burly of football management . |
| 28 | I am afraid you have missed the last serving of supper . ’ |
| 29 | In a flurry of seminars both in the US and in Europe members of the team have presented the first results from the experiment . |
| 30 | Of these two approaches I have adopted the first , formally at least , since my first chapter is concerned with scepticism , and there are constant if sporadic references to one form of sceptical argument throughout the book . |