Example sentences of "have [vb pp] at the [noun sg] of " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is imperative that you do not disturb the meat layer which has formed at the top of the soup . |
| 4 | And the tutor 's impressions of one student are unlikely to remain vivid after he/she has looked at the work of a few more students . |
| 5 | This chapter has looked at the importance of temporary jobs as a source of flows both from unemployment into employment and from employment into unemployment . |
| 6 | A large number of studies has looked at the geography of those spending patterns , and attempted to account for the spatial variation in how much is spent , where ( for example , Johnston , 1980 ; Archer , 1983 ) . |
| 7 | In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits . |
| 8 | In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits . |
| 9 | A character wearing the Talisman of Ulric automatically recovers wounds he has suffered at the start of his turn . |
| 10 | Although the USSR has hinted at the possibility of cooperation with the GCC over issues of Gulf security , its attitude to this body , especially over GCC plans for coordinated security arrangements , remained negative in the early 1980s . |
| 11 | The more the star has moved at the end of the Earth 's journey of 186 million miles , the closer it must be to the solar system . |
| 12 | It has advanced at the pace of its peoples and must continue to do so . |
| 13 | Even when the miraculous promise of steadily falling costs has faltered at the point of delivery , a further cast-iron prediction has been installed , and the search for the nuclear philosophers ' stone has continued with a renewed and fiery zeal . |
| 14 | Olive Booth , lieutenant Colonel in the Salvation Army and a grand-daughter of its founder , has died at the age of 98 . |
| 15 | Alexander Camaro , the Berlin artist , has died at the age of ninety-one . |
| 16 | OLIVIER MESSIAEN has died at the age of 83 . |
| 17 | The contralto Alfreda Hodgson has died at the age of 51 . |
| 18 | The ballet dancer , Rudolf Nureyev , has died at the age of fifty-four following a long illness . |
| 19 | The former Gloucestershire MP , Lord Ridley , has died at the age of sixty-four . |
| 20 | The former miners ' leader , Lord Gormley , has died at the age of seventy-five . |
| 21 | The actor , Robert Morley , has died at the age of eighty-four . |
| 22 | The comedian , Les Dawson , has died at the age of fifty-eight . |
| 23 | The man who first described the Gloucestershire Regiment as ’ The Glorious Glosters ’ has died at the age of eighty nine ( 89 ) . |
| 24 | The actor , Raymond Burr , star of TV 's Perry Mason and Ironside series , has died at the age of seventy-six . |
| 25 | A DARLINGTON man who worked in the same menswear shop all his adult life has died at the age of 73 . |
| 26 | The Dowager Lady Grimthorpe of Ampleforth has died at the age of 90 . |
| 27 | A former inspector in Durham police has died at the age of 77 . |
| 28 | A FORMER mayor has died at the age of 86 . |
| 29 | In the Middlesbrough area , Marton Sixth Form College has lost Mr Thomas Hume , who has retired at the end of a 28-year teaching career , and taking early retirement from Nunthorpe School in the summer after 19 years is Mrs Margaret Brown . |
| 30 | A more elaborate discussion of such structures has appeared at the time of writing ( Chadwick 1985 a and b ) . |