Example sentences of "have [adv] [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French have long chafed at the bit . |
| 2 | These general principles have long lain at the heart of the social purpose approach : and they are no less relevant today than in the 1900s . |
| 3 | Ultimately , however , it is easy for readers to charge that the mask was not penetrated , and therefore that we have only scratched at the surface . |
| 4 | We have only to look at the animal kingdom ; a creature in the wild will never overeat and , even if it has had to put effort into the hunting and killing of its prey , it will stop eating when it has had enough and walk away from the food . |
| 5 | You have only to look at the shape and solidness of a barbel to see where he gets his speed and power . |
| 6 | We have only to look at the string of sell-offs of assets of the former National Bus Company groups after privatisation to demonstrate conclusively that those are not far-fetched fears or exaggerated concerns . |
| 7 | The illegals have only to look at the plight of the large Korean minority — 690,000 of Japan 's 1.1 million registered foreign residents — to know they will never be accepted in this xenophobic land . |
| 8 | The use of sacred measure and proportion has been developed by many researchers to postulate a geometrical pattern across the land , extending Watkins ' ley theory into wider concepts of ‘ landscape geometry ’ , and we have already looked at the work of Tyler , Lawton and Koop in exploring wider patterns . |
| 9 | We have already looked at the movement of settlements , changes in plan and form etc. in the landscape , but nevertheless for most of today 's settlements the criteria which applied when the settlement originated are no longer relevant . |
| 10 | Local authority housing provides an example of the former and we have already looked at the role of charges in the NHS . |
| 11 | We have already stressed at the end of Chapter 6 how important it is to record your daily weight and also to chart it and plot it on a monthly graph . |
| 12 | As a result of different levels of personal mobility , the former types of place have tended to attract people who are younger , better qualified , more enterprising and more wealthy and have thus gained at the expense of the larger cities and less dynamic industrial areas , causing the latter a double blow in terms of both quantity and quality . |
| 13 | So , until recently , the ideas behind the movement have largely remained at the level of slogans and their deeper implications have not really been worked out . |
| 14 | Fortunately , while traditional values have hardly changed at the dinner table , cooker design has . |
| 15 | I have always looked at the shortlist very much in terms of the dealer presence . |
| 16 | But power and resources have gradually concentrated at the centre , leading to fierce political bickering in recent years . |
| 17 | The fact that Y may have been quite innocent and have genuinely believed at the time that the goods were his to sell , gives him no defence either to a claim by Z for breach of contract or to a claim by O for conversion . |
| 18 | We are young and youth is said to be fickle , mutable , and we have both looked at the possibility of ourselves not being exceptions to that supposed rule . |
| 19 | We have also looked at the effect of volume on er mortality and major morbidity by comparing sites where fewer than one hundred cases were performed during the audit period , sites where more than one hundred cases were performed and we have also examined the effects upon mor mortality of both admission types and histology . |
| 20 | You have n't stood at the side of the pavement . |
| 21 | I really must finish the rest of it which I have n't done at the moment , because I 've been doing other things . |
| 22 | You see this is what we have n't got at the moment . |
| 23 | Somebody er to whom the erm er er matters could be referred er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund erm to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way which is something that we have n't got at the moment erm I mean just going very , very briefly back to the question that you asked erm about this how would you stop what 's happen happening is by having , we would have thought a pensioner trustee , because even the question has been asked how did it get through the union trustees and the answer is that most of them are employed , and they are looking over their shoulder because jobs are going and redundancies are being made . |
| 24 | Somebody er to whom the erm er matters could be referred to er whom er could remove trustees er who are er not acting in er the best interests er of the fund er to whom er I understand that the erm beneficiaries could er appeal if they felt that their fund was being erm used i in the wrong way , which is something that we have n't got at the moment . |
| 25 | Well I have n't looked at the board for a week |
| 26 | I do n't know I have n't looked at the invitation , he just told me when he came home from school he 'd got a party . |
| 27 | I ha I have n't looked at the round there , yeah , I 'm , I 'm sure it 's not too bad really , you know , you know . |
| 28 | Gloucester have never won at the Recreation Ground … the league champions look invincible … but that 's when the Kingsholm men are at their best … when nobody gives them a hope … |