Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The well-known cases which have been cited at the Bar in support of the position , that a promise , based on the consideration of doing that which a man is already bound to do , is invalid , apply to this case ; and it is not necessary , in order to invalidate the consideration , that the plaintiff 's prior obligation to afford that consideration should have been an obligation to the defendant .
2 The rescued badgers have been recuperating at the vale wildlife sanctuary near Evesham , along with 6 others which were the victims of road accidents .
3 They have been placed at the head of this chapter only because it is the extreme case which so often bothers the social worker in consideration of what he or she might be involved in if the sexual side of the work develops .
4 It was agreed that chapters 15 to 17 should be printed on yellow-tinted paper , with the following explanation at the top of the contents page : ‘ For ease of reference , chapters 15 to 17 have been placed at the front of the report , adjacent to the proposals , and are printed on tinted paper . ’
5 The badgers waiting to move in have been recouperating at the Vale Wildlife centre near Evesham .
6 A glamorous restaurant and bar surround a central palm-fringed swimming pool , and three tennis courts have been built at the foot of Anchorage Hill .
7 More than £2,000 MGB bodyshells have been built at the Faringdon factory .
8 The question of whether Fahreddin Acemi was teaching at the Darulhadis is not without importance , since if Mecdi 's statement is correct , it would provide evidence of a certain continuity in one of the distinctive functions of the later Muftilik , from the time of Ali Cemali on , namely that the Mufti taught in an important imperial medrese ( in the case of Ali Cemali and his successors , that of Bayezid II in Istanbul ) : it ought , of course , to be recalled In this connection that Molla Fenari and Molla Yegan may well , while Mufti , have been teaching at the Manastir ( Sultan Orhan ) medrese in Bursa .
9 These positive aspects of the Michigan law may , however , have been achieved at the expense of simplicity .
10 250 officers and men from the Royal Army Medical Corps and Royal Engineers , already equipped with their familiar United Nations blue berets , have been gathering at the Army 's Air Movement Centre at South Cerney in Gloucestershire .
11 All students who have become temporary residents in Northern Ireland and have been accepted at the University should apply for a Medical Card through the University Health Centre .
12 So far , approximately 5000 patients have been assessed at the centre which is run by a multi-disciplinary team of physicans .
13 Where trade unions have been involved at the level of the enterprise they have generally not sought to resist the introduction of temporary workers .
14 Many of the big European names are being churned out by British design teams who have been trained at the expense of the British taxpayer .
15 The examination ( for each group of 90 students ) starts at 9 00 , and by 18 00 the final results have been confirmed at the examiners ' meeting .
16 The tank provides what is known as a ‘ restricted environment ’ and researchers have been looking at the benefits of Restricted Environment Stimulation therapy ( known as REST ) for almost 30 years .
17 One thing which is immediately apparent here is that the designers have been looking at the Music Man and Chandler ranges for their inspiration .
18 AS a third part of a nanny share I have been looking at the law and the availability of Liability Insurance .
19 So far we have been looking at the type of grave-clothes provided for the very wealthy .
20 MEANWHILE , back at the ranch , Michael Murray , a banker , Ian MacLaurin , chairman of Tesco , the TCCB accountant , Brian Downin , the promotional and marketing man , and three others , including one isolated first-class cricketer , have been looking at the structure of the first-class game and the counties ' verdict will be known by the time you read this .
21 All the dealers who habitually haunt Sothebys salerooms have been looking at the furniture and glassware and silver .
22 Marketing chiefs ‘ have been looking at the mathematics and have worked out that volume counts , ’ says Cunningham , pointing to Unix 's one million a year run rate against the huge base of Windows users — increasing at one million a month — many of which will be targeted for NT .
23 ‘ We have been looking at the pictures of James and we are really upset because there is such a likeness . ’
24 Not a classic illustration of the thesis of Aggleton and colleagues , who have been looking at the lifespans of cricketers and report a two-year gap in favour of right-handers , much of it ascribable to fewer deaths in accidents or in war .
25 In this chapter we have been looking at the details of the division of labour to which Ella was referring .
26 I have been looking at the wares offered at spring seminars by the Folger Institute , a consortium of 29 universities , with Yale and Princeton in , but Harvard out .
27 I have been looking at the Opposition amendment .
28 Some 4,574,048 miles have been run at the London since 1981
29 Cracks have been discovered at the Ringhals pressurized water reactor in Sweden .
30 Gravestones and wreaths have been wrecked at the town 's public cemetery on a number of occasions by drunken youths .
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