Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1985 and 1990 , however , the number of people aged over 85 supported in residential care by local authorities has declined at a slower rate than that for all people aged 65+ . |
| 2 | Provenance work on the turbidite sandstones has indicated at least two sources for heavy minerals . |
| 3 | Over the years , the proportion of family cases has settled at just over 40 per cent. ; crime at around 22 per cent. ; landlord and tenant and housing , and hire purchase and debt , at around 6 per cent . |
| 4 | Over this period the stock of such investments has expanded at an average annual compound rate of just under 19% . |
| 5 | A coherent strategy for retrospective conversion has not been attempted for the UK ( although it is known that there are stirrings of such an initiative in a European context , involving the British Library ) and lack of institutional funding for such unglamorous activities has ensured at best a piecemeal approach . |
| 6 | C Company of The Royal Scots has lived at Forkhill as part of the regiment 's six-month tour which began last October . |
| 7 | I mean th the f the funds having dropped at all . |
| 8 | West Brom were then safe and were not too bothered about letting Stoke beat them to send Leeds down after the trouble that Leeds fans had caused at the Hawthorns . |
| 9 | Naturally , the manager had more details to offer : the car hired had been a red Cavalier , Registration H 106 XMT ; it had been hired at 1.45 p.m. and returned at some time after the offices had closed at 6.30 p.m. , with the keys pushed through the special letter-box , as requested . |
| 10 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 11 | Tuan Ti Fo 's eyes had widened at her words . |
| 12 | Alison 's eyes had brightened at the word ‘ divorce ’ and she said that she would go on seeing him . |
| 13 | There had been no second rescue attempt — the first vessel had been destroyed by a rigged explosion — and the conclusion the survivors had arrived at had been that they were assumed killed . |
| 14 | According to Le Monde of April 19 some Dev Sol fighters had trained at the PKK camp in the Bekaa [ see also p. 38833 ] . |
| 15 | At the meetings called in different villages , some proposed a raid on the Rebecca , as the new sloop was called ; others planned to murder the guards in the food stores behind the stockade at Belmont and set them on fire ; but when Dulé and his companions sailed in from Oualie to discuss the best strategy , they suggested slow , persistent attrition : waylaying the occasional soldier or watch outside the compound , or in the sturdy dwellings of the English leaders , until the islanders had accumulated at least twenty guns , as well as the necessary tackle to go with them , the gunpowder kegs and pouches for shot , the ramrods to load the barrels . |
| 16 | Most of his informants had spent at least four years in Britain , and had left Jamaica after the age of sixteen ( pp. 47 – 8 ) . |
| 17 | But the spears had come at him one at a time , inanimate projectiles unable to change direction , speed or purpose once thrown . |
| 18 | The crossflow of cars had stopped at the sound of the approaching siren and now drivers and passengers and a small number of pedestrians were all looking around , uncertain of the direction . |
| 19 | Buses have to drop off passengers in the middle of the road because cars had parked at bus stops . |
| 20 | After a letter to the Home Secretary in 1934 complaining that the IFL speakers had stated at these meetings that they would clear all Jews out of the country , and if this was not possible they would starve them and murder them , Special Branch reported that a Mr Pipkin and a Mr Smith of the IFL , both about twenty-one years of age , had made reckless and rash statements at such occasions . |
| 21 | Their success in this area so changed the way British films were perceived that , in 1932 , a year when a large number of exhibitors substantially over-filled their quota , the American showbiz journal Variety reported on ‘ the complete stranglehold the home-made pictures had established at the local box office . ’ |
| 22 | Almost all of the designated districts had declared at least one improvement area , and about one-quarter of declarations were in commercial or commercial/ industrial areas . |
| 23 | A Labour Party survey found that in the year up to August 1987 the price of a school meal in primary schools had risen at twice the rate of inflation , and this had resulted in a reduction in the number of children taking school meals . |
| 24 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 25 | Four Axminster Gripper looms have arrived at Brindley Road , from LDP 's factory at Warwick which is being closed down following the take over . |
| 26 | First , because there are still far more betrayed women than men around : the percentage of wives playing away may have risen from 26% in the 50s to around 40% now , but a conservative estimate suggests that 60% of husbands have cheated at least once — and one US survey puts the figure as high as 82% . |
| 27 | Another point which has n't been taken up , despite us being invited to is why is the Greater York area the size that it is , and this is a point that the Senior Inspector raised , er in other towns and cities , I 'm thinking particularly of Exeter for example , the districts have looked at supplying their city based land supply problems on a journey to work area , now that area would be significantly greater than we 're looking at here , and it seems to me in this location er where we see a potential abundance of supply beyond the strict confines of the Greater York area is a very apposite question to ask , why is the Greater York area the area that it is ? |
| 28 | Three successive Home Secretaries have stood at the Dispatch Box and pledged to do away with holding prisoners in police cells . |
| 29 | Although authors have arrived at different figures , thus reflecting the inherent difficulty and speculative nature of the task involved , they have been unanimous in one conclusion : persons are deprived of far more money by corporate crimes than they are by ordinary economic crimes , such as robbery , theft , larceny , and auto-theft . |
| 30 | Now all these other eyes have looked at it I feel different about it . |