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

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1 From the pre-crisis level of DM2.83 = £1 and US$2 = £1 , the pound has at the date of writing declined by some 14% against the DM ( or 17.5% below its central rate of 2.95 ) , a similar amount against the US$ , and 12% against its trade-weighted index .
2 Being a costly enterprise and having many uses to the modern state , research has at the same time come under increased scrutiny from the paymaster .
3 JH : Do you feel when listening to ‘ authentic ’ orchestral performances that there is an inevitable tendency for the musician to have at the root of his interpretation a whole series of experiences and influences which must at least sub-consciously be drawn from the post-Wagnerian school ?
4 English fans have at the moment , the reputation of being the top boys in Europe , and there will be others from Holland , Germany and erm let's face it , also Italy who 'll be out to knock them off their pedestal .
5 Gray had at the most been a shade injudicious , a little unworldly , perhaps , in his supervision of Jefferson .
6 You are the English guest that madame has at the farm , n'est-ce pas ?
7 South Africa has at the moment six Rottweiler specialist breed clubs , who are affiliated to the Kennel Union of South Africa : one in the Western Cape Province , one in the Eastern Cape Province , one in Durban , Natal and three in the Transvaal Province centred in and around Johannesburg .
8 Where the business association takes the form of a partnership , a writ or originating summons can be served on any one or more of the partners ; at the principal place of business of the partnership within the jurisdiction on any person having at the time of service the control or management of the partnership business there ; or by sending a copy of the document by post to the firm at that principal place of business .
9 That the Rev. C. G. Hamilton having at the suggestion of the Governors agreed to retire from the Headmastership on a pension , the Governors beg respectfully to suggest £150 per annum as such pension , and ask the advice of the Charity Commissioners on the subject . "
10 Davis was the worst sort of person to have at the head of a monopolistic company .
11 ‘ What 's puzzling me is that phone-call Nicola had at the party .
12 However , indebtedness had at the same time gone up from 90 per cent of GNP to a January 1990 level of 120 per cent , the second highest in Western Europe .
13 He must have had the same kind of feelings as my father had at the prospect of being sent to Fontanellato .
14 A VIDEO of the robbery showed the thief with a plaster cast on his hand — exactly like the one Nick Moore had at the time .
15 Although they do lie outside the mainstream — indeed , because they lie outside it — authors such as B. S. Johnson have at the very least an important exemplary function , keeping open a wide spectrum of possibility , even for authors who may not always wish to go so far in such radical directions themselves .
16 While attempting to give financial autonomy to schools the government has at the same time failed to help the market — that is , parents and pupils — to decide what subjects should be studied .
17 Italy has at the moment no Bruce Chatwin or Paul Theroux , and the history of Italian travel-writing belongs more to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries than to the nineteenth or twentieth , but it is possible to discern an interest in the imaginative and expressive possibilities of travel-writing in the work of some contemporaries who are not travel-writers as such .
18 Whatever one may think of its application to the particular case , there can be little doubt that Banfield has at the very least described in an ideal form a society in which thrift , enterprise , trust and cooperation are impossible , and therefore one in which political and economic development along liberal democratic and capitalist lines are grossly inhibited .
19 In Time magazine on the eve of the hearings Walter Shapiro offered advice for congressmen wishing to become stars , as Sam Ervin had at the Watergate hearings : they should play to the cameras , should not be afraid to wear their hearts on their sleeves , and should never make the mistake of reading their questions .
20 However , the demand for the relevant , the practical , and the vocational that was part of the raison d'être of the GCSE has at the same time been answered in a different way , which may in the end prove embarrassing to the DES and the SEC , and may seem to promise yet another shift of power .
21 He star 'd at the Pacific — and all his men
22 Me thing to have at the bed end you know
23 The pig Agnes had at the moment was just about ready to have its throat slit so she would send Alisdair to the market for a new one .
24 Society becomes more wholesome , more serene and spiritually healthier , if it knows that its citizens have at the back of their consciousness the knowledge that not only themselves , but all their fellows have access when ill , to the best that medical skill can provide .
25 There is little evidence so far , though , to suggest that counterurbanization has halted the decline of service provision , since population thresholds for services have at the same time been rising ( Johansen and Fuguitt , 1984 ) .
26 Whilst guidance on suitable mechanisms for multidisciplinary collaboration has at the level of planning been published , the use of mechanisms to co-ordinate information and assessment at the level of practice has been actively discouraged .
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