Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] at [art] " 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 | Over this period the stock of such investments has expanded at an average annual compound rate of just under 19% . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Alison 's eyes had brightened at the word ‘ divorce ’ and she said that she would go on seeing him . |
| 5 | According to Le Monde of April 19 some Dev Sol fighters had trained at the PKK camp in the Bekaa [ see also p. 38833 ] . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | The brakes had gone at the same corner where he rolled last year . |
| 9 | Three successive Home Secretaries have stood at the Dispatch Box and pledged to do away with holding prisoners in police cells . |
| 10 | Yields have remained at an average of more than 2.6 tonnes a hectare . |
| 11 | We are naturally disappointed that substantial catastrophe losses have come at a time when the pace of our underlying recovery is accelerating , but we are confident that the improvement in our performance is soundly based and will continue to show through as strong management action proves increasingly effective . ’ |
| 12 | Two letterbombs have exploded at the homes of people who work with animals . |
| 13 | The plight of the country 's refugees has tugged at the nation 's heart . |
| 14 | Their prosecutors at the trial of the politburo took pleasure in revealing how many cartons of Western cigarettes each of the defendants had possessed at the time of the revolution . |
| 15 | Judge Sirica 's doubts were confirmed when McCord admitted in March that the defendants had lied at the trial , that they had received payments of over $200 000 to keep quiet and that this had been done from a high level in the White House . |
| 16 | This unprecedented discovery indicated one of two things : either at least four meteorites had fallen at the same place in Antarctica ( an event of vanishingly small statistical probability ) , or fragments of four meteorites , which had fallen at random on the interior ice sheet , had been carried to the Yamato Mountains site by ice motion . |
| 17 | All the ski instructors had gathered at the bottom of the small slope . |
| 18 | One of the models had peeked at the audience from behind the heavy velvet curtains that draped the stage and reported breathlessly that every spindly-legged gilt chair in the crowded hall was taken . |
| 19 | But all factions have leaped at every opportunity to attack others . |
| 20 | In six appearances in carcass competitions at the Royal Smithfield Show he has taken three major championships and three reserves ; his lambs have triumphed at the Birmingham Primestock Show ‘ umpteen times ’ and topped the lot at the first national Welsh Primestock Show last year at Builth Wells . |
| 21 | Both companies have arrived at the same answer . |
| 22 | The problem of the trade balance is caused by the fact that imports have risen at an even faster rate , a most unusual phenomenon during such a severe recession . |
| 23 | Even when the miraculous promise of steadily falling costs has faltered at the point of delivery , a further cast-iron prediction has been installed , and the search for the nuclear philosophers ' stone has continued with a renewed and fiery zeal . |
| 24 | Rotorway International reported that a number of aircraft had achieved , without sprocket bolt failure , many times the number of hours at which the bolt on this aircraft failed , but that several failures of these bolts had occurred at a life similar to that at which the failure occurred . |
| 25 | A district army commander in a small outpost 10 miles west of Kampot town admitted last month that the mines his troops had planted at the foot of the mountains were designed only partly to defend their position . |
| 26 | Luckily , one of the participants had to withdraw at the last moment and taking her place on the team , I went off in search of sponsors . |
| 27 | The kidnapping of his friend 's son , the policy of intermittent , small-scale attacks , together with the persistent driving winds ( no hurricane had hit , but nevertheless the autumn gales had torn at the trees all night and blown his nerves to bits ) , and the impending birth of his child by the savage girl who 'd taken possession of him — all this harried Kit Everard in his sleep until more than once , he was ready to move on , find another island , preferably entirely uninhabited . |
| 28 | Any proposals to alter the situation faced by older workers have to work at a number of levels : developing new social roles ; using legislation to change attitudes ; improving work prospects ; raising income levels ; increasing the effectiveness of health and social policies . |
| 29 | So general SVQs have arrived at a good time . |
| 30 | Other investigators have looked at the effects of unilateral ECT in relation to handedness . |