Example sentences of "[conj] have [be] [vb pp] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Office has also been remiss about security devices , an important subject that has been debated at length today . |
| 2 | This is the brickbat that has been thrown at Pound from the first , and is thrown at him still , because of his unswerving attention to what makes poetry poetry , and not some other sort of discourse versified . |
| 3 | A criticism that has been levelled at clinicians in the past is that they are concerned only with the patients they actually see and not with the wider population . |
| 4 | Traffic carried by the new truck waterway thus increased beyond the volume of goods which had been conveyed along the old cul-de-sac Arun Navigation and it was necessary to extend the waterside storage buildings that had been established at Newbridge . |
| 5 | But there was still a French-speaking population on the peninsula itself ; transferring a population to a new ruler in this way was common enough in Europe , and the only unusual thing about this transfer was that the British promised to let the inhabitants retain their Catholic religion without enforcing the laws restricting the civil rights of Catholics that had been passed at Westminster . |
| 6 | The closure of the Paris office was initiated by a management team that had been installed at Rabbit Software by Safeguard . |
| 7 | The poor second half performance , however , masks the changes that have been made at Lincat , which is now placed to deliver more acceptable returns . |
| 8 | Hot cross buns , Simnel cake and Easter biscuits ( see recipes on page 60 ) contain currants and mixed spices that have been eaten at Lent since Elizabethan times , although their use goes back to the Middle Ages when only the rich could afford spice . |
| 9 | The criticisms that have been levelled at Coleman on educational and other matters have included assertions that he admitted unsuitable pupils ; unduly shortened the course of instruction ; concentrated that instruction solely on diseases of the horse ; allowed undue medical interference in the development of the profession , particularly in respect of the examining committee , solely composed of medical men ; barred veterinary surgeons from becoming subscribers to the College , and thwarted attempts by the profession to obtain a charter . |
| 10 | While these merchandising agreements would appear to be universally welcomed by the publishers that have been approached at Dillons , another scheme which is currently under discussion may be greeted with more caution . |
| 11 | Rabies ; a killer disease that 's been kept at bay by Britain 's tough quarantine laws . |
| 12 | It was rescued from Woodham Brothers scrap yard in South Wales and has been stored at Swanwick Junction pending attention . |
| 13 | He is a key figure in Graham Taylor 's England World Cup qualifying plans and has been valued at £3million . |
| 14 | Installed at a Boston residential club by the American publishers Houghton Mifflin , he wrote the account in six weeks ; it came out less than three months after the sinking it describes , and has been reprinted at intervals ever since . |
| 15 | He was nineteen in 1773 , and had been tutored at Oxford by George Strahan , a friend of Johnson . |
| 16 | farmers encouraging foxes to live on their land encourage a whole range of other wildlife that enjoys the same habitat , as has been done at Highgrove . |
| 17 | Even so , there were often areas of development which could not be accommodated with the enceinte , as has been shown at Silchester . |
| 18 | Land presented as having been imparked at Thornbury affords an interesting comparison : with buildings it was valued at 6d. per acre , without at 4d . |
| 19 | ‘ We are aware that part of a substantial City office building was recently announced as having been let at £40 per sq ft , ’ said the property analysts . |