Example sentences of "has [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job . |
| 2 | He is the vital element , a striker with so much potential that , if Graham Taylor gives him the same encouragement he has received at Highbury , he will become Gary Lineker Mark II — only better . |
| 3 | If the people sense that a vacuum has developed at the ‘ party centre ’ , and the troops are withdrawn , they will fill the same square with the same demand in a matter of hours . |
| 4 | If the dam , which has leaked at its toe for as long as any one can remember , should collapse , it would sweep away the busy tourist road the B3046 , seven houses and their inhabitants — and quite probably , the Parliamentary career of Peter Maxwell . |
| 5 | For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals . |
| 6 | To the east , in Wollo , the Save the Children Fund is intensively feeding 700 out of the 3000 children it has registered at the Korem camp . |
| 7 | Sally Grace , a dialogue coach who has taught at RADA , has been sent down to Eldorado 's £2 million set in southern Spain to help improve the actors ' diction . |
| 8 | She , too , has taught at Ayton and at Redhouse , Stockton , and is currently on supply at Brambles Farm , Middlesbrough . |
| 9 | Molly Scrutton was invited to teach at a KFA Training Course in Thorpe and she has taught at our own Rallies in Kent and Essex earlier in the year . |
| 10 | ‘ Informants tell us that the enemy has halted at Annan town . |
| 11 | RUSSIANS are numb to the red of the Communist Party and the face of Lenin which has stared at them in public places for decades . |
| 12 | Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week . |
| 13 | But if the average size of a household has fallen at the same time ( this has happened in the UK ) then the income of each person in a household may have risen . |
| 14 | Such contests permit ‘ horse race journalism ’ ; they make possible endless speculation about who the front runner is , who the dark horses are and who has fallen at what fence , all of which helps to make television news broadcasts more exciting and enter-taining than they would otherwise be . |
| 15 | The £4 million scheme to build 97 one to three bedroom homes for shared ownership is the second contract Wimpey has undertaken at the site for the North British Housing Association . |
| 16 | It is imperative that you do not disturb the meat layer which has formed at the top of the soup . |
| 17 | The Bosnian government has protested at the UNHCR 's failure to reach the Muslims in the east by refusing to accept UN aid for the besieged capital , Sarajevo . |
| 18 | Government has stressed at several points that it seeks the development of local district services first , with asylums to close only when the latter services can cope with the patient workload . |
| 19 | Clearly Fjortoft ( who has sucked at Swindon , not a single goal yet ! ) and maybe also Sorloth ( who as before mentioned was at a 14-day trial at Leeds and scored in all his test matches ) will be picked . |
| 20 | There is no doubt that Charles has done a great deal that his father has been proud of and has excelled at sports like polo that the Duke of Edinburgh played when he was younger , but the Prince never felt he was good enough . |
| 21 | The managers of such funds are on the stump , spreading the message that their day has come at last . |
| 22 | Inevitably , in such a well-established industry — modern-style factoring has been in existence in the UK since the 1960s product improvement has come at the margins . |
| 23 | ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest . |
| 24 | This new expansion of the department has come at the right moment for the National Railway Museum in view of the recent acquisition of the Ian Allan negative collection . |
| 25 | The latest surge in the yen has come at the worst possible time for many Japanese companies , especially exporters . |
| 26 | The joint Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Standard survey has come at a time when Essex Rivers Healthcare is trying to save £2.2 million to cope with an overspend of £1.3 million last year , waiting lists are at a record high and the closure date of a Colchester hospital has been set . |
| 27 | With Summer 's Last Will it may simply be , as Christopher Palmer suggests in his notes , that its moment , its ‘ right time ’ , has come at last . |
| 28 | ‘ So reunion has come at last , thanks , I think I may say , to me , ’ Neville Chamberlain wrote to his sister . |
| 29 | let them sweetly dream that in Britain the great day has come at last . |
| 30 | ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive . |