Example sentences of "have [verb] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Recruitment clearly has to continue at a high level so as to maintain C&P 's scientific excellence [ and relevance ! ] .
2 The Transport Secretary , Cecil Parkinson , has hinted at a possible change of heart by refusing to rule out government support , but a firm decision will have to be made soon if the deadline for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill , to be introduced in November , is to be met .
3 If a product fails to sell well , the company may be left with a lot of unwanted stock which it has to sell at a reduced price
4 The scope of Mareva injunctions has expanded at a remarkable speed , and on many points ( and especially the territorial reach of injunctions ) events have overtaken cases decided only a few years ago .
5 In addition , the size of the bands indicates that at least one copy of the construct has been integrated into the interrupted beta-tubulin gene at the 3' end of the tubulin locus ( 7.4kb fragment ) , and that a second integration event has occurred at a PstI site within an intact beta-tubulin gene ( 5.8 kb band ) .
6 Fees collection work has continued at a high level since the acceptable age of a fee note in a complaint was reduced from five years to two in November last year .
7 Fees collection work has continued at a high level since the acceptable age of a fee note in a complaint was reduced from five to two years in November 1991 .
8 From its beginnings more than a century ago , modern mathematics has aimed at a total abstraction in the interests of rigour and distillation of its logic .
9 Members of the Dan Quayle Commemorative Foundation hope to display memorabilia he has donated at a converted church in his home town of Huntington , Indiana .
10 After some confusion over the ordering , Haverford gave them a lengthy account of his love affair with one of a pair of identical twins whom he 'd met at a Red Mole party in 1965 .
11 Why , d' ya get , do you have to retire at a certain time ?
12 She would never be a great beauty , he knew , but she had a natural charm and personality that lent an extra depth to her character , and he imagined that this would have been how his mother would have looked at a similar age .
13 Early in 1971 Waddell was found guilty of committing perjury at Meehan 's trial and in sentencing him to three years ' imprisonment Lord Cameron suggested that had he told the truth there , the Meehan jury might well have arrived at a different verdict .
14 Having arrived at a suitable total for local authority expenditure , the next problem is how to express it in a way that allows comparisons to be made either with other contemporary expenditures or with local authority expenditure over time .
15 Any kid will tell you that the worst part of moving house is having to start at a new school where you do n't know anyone , and I was scared stiff .
16 Had more companies been honest with themselves a dividend passed completely would have been better and then a new base could have set at a suitable level .
17 My Lords , section 87 does not stipulate that the successor must have resided at a particular house for 12 months but only that he should have resided with the deceased tenant for that period .
18 Bivalves seem generally to have evolved at a slow canter rather than a brisk gallop ( see ammonites pp. 73–6 ) and some living bivalves have a very long ancestry ; the small sized genus ( Nucula ) has relatives in Ordovician rocks not very different from Recent species .
19 Cranston , who had stopped at a local tavern to refill his miraculous wineskin , was full of chatter and speculation .
20 Snizort , on his own account , offered the Twelve Knights who had sat at a round table so that no one of them should be at its head and no one at its foot .
21 ‘ He 's rather busy — you 've come at a bad time , I 'm afraid , Miss Holbrook .
22 The MoD had claimed at a public inquiry in 1988 that they needed the land for training and in 1991 asked to extend the area further .
23 On April 6 Parys had claimed at a televised meeting with army officers that politicians were preparing to use the army for " political intrigues " , offering officers promotion in return for their support .
24 That was after Joe , HISY 's lawyer had claimed at a previous hearing that yet another G Tec rival , Scientific Games , had been told not to bother bidding by lottery officials .
25 Already during the uncanny calm of the ‘ phoney war ’ in the winter of 1939–40 , Hitler had hinted at a successful end to the conflict during 1940 , and at the same time had further blamed England and France for deliberately prolonging the war through their influence on previously neutral countries .
26 It would take too long and she would n't understand ; besides , she had phoned at a bad moment — Anne was obviously in a hurry to go out .
27 Clayton 's development as a photographer had accelerated at a rapid pace and within 12 months he won 12 awards , including :
28 ‘ Dorset , ’ someone had said at a recent dinner .
29 Nevertheless , the farmers had to sell at a controlled price and vast sums were retained by Britain , exporting cocoa for dollars .
30 If the deceased had led a reasonable life and had died at a good age without too much trouble , leaving a reasonably good family behind him , what was there to be miserable about ?
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