Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [adv] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The only technical challenge of the day is at the home of a lawyer , whose Peugeot 405 has conked out at the bottom of a steep drive .
2 So I welcome Neeme Jarvi 's interpretation of Mahler 's Fourth Symphony with the Royal Scottish Orchestra because it is the work of a conductor who has looked closely at the score and not been afraid to give full personal rein to what he found there .
3 A reconstruction of the concert formed a centrepiece of Manchester 's Festival of Expressionism , which has looked again at the German and Austrian blossoming that anticipated the dominant issues of 20th-century culture .
4 An FEL which uses a low energy ( 6 MeV ) van de Graaff electrostatic accelerator has operated successfully at the University of California , Santa Barbara , since 1984 .
5 There were a few who would have asked the same question , looking at Joan Rush , senior project officer with the fund , a prime mover in the group which has beavered away at the subject to bring it into the mainstream of policy and practice .
6 The structure has suffered little at the hand of man , or from the lapse of time , so that without much imagination it is possible to picture it as the builders left it about the year 1410 .
7 Such fears are probably misconceived and in the years that have elapsed since the mergers took place there is no reason to believe that art education has suffered unduly at the hands of engineers and scientists in senior positions in the polytechnics .
8 He has a fine technique and a good grasp of Lisztian idiom : the Mephisto Waltz in particular has suffered horribly at the hands of stop/go pianists who ‘ apply the brakes ’ all over the place .
9 South America , on the other hand , has suffered greatly at the hands of the cattle ranchers .
10 An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale .
11 It has done so at the expense of sharp cuts in living standards and in expenditure on its long-established system of social services and free education .
12 Constance Turner , matron of the Teesside Leonard Cheshire Home at Marske Hall , has died suddenly at the age of 58 .
13 John Major may be Prime Minister , but Sir Robin Butler , head of the Home Civil Service and Cabinet Secretary , has spent longer at the heart of power .
14 A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds .
15 Former Sunderland star Marco Gabbiadini has settled better at the Baseball Ground than at Crystal Palace .
16 I think the real historical tragedy is that AIDS has emerged just at the moment that the gay community was reaching a sort of maturity and openness .
17 man has hit out at a health survey which he claims is insulting and highly personal .
18 Michael Fallon , who is defending Darlington for the Tories , has hit out at the surcharge of £19 on poll tax bills which have already gone out .
19 Wheelchair-bound Ethlyn Whittaker , aged 56 , from Great Sankey , Warrington , has started a campaign against the means test forms , and has hit out at the charges set to be introduced in October .
20 A NURSE who had to learn to walk again after his neck was broken has hit out at the prison sentence given to his attacker .
21 She had a family of four , and for the past ten years or so she has worked voluntarily at the Citizen 's Advice Bureau .
22 The death toll has worked out at the equivalent of seven a week since the two companies responsible for investing £190million in government securities went into liquidation last June .
23 HIGH TECHNOLOGY has taken over at the Port Everglades power station , run by the Florida Light and Power Company .
24 GA Life 's with-profit past performance results compare very favourably to other companies in the UK market , while its free asset ratio has strengthened further at the end of 1992 .
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