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

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1 Her general practitioner had at one time treated her unsuccessfully for this with an antidepressant .
2 All those who went through the ordeal had at some time survived an accident or illness when their lives had been despaired of .
3 INITIAL shock gave ground to more considered calm in the market after Mr Lamont 's forecast of a £50 billion public sector borrowing requirement had at one stage wiped 14 points off the FT-SE 100-Share Index .
4 Councillor Matheson also asked if any social workers presently in the employ of Orkney Islands Council had at any time in their careers , attended conferences , seminars or other courses organised by the Reachout Trust ?
5 I would imagine that the site had at one time been occupied by a large merchant 's house as four of the houses were built over a medieval cellar .
6 The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law in holding that the plaintiff had at common law a cause of action in negligence against the defendants arising out of physical injury suffered by her before her birth and whilst still an embryo of about six weeks ' gestation en ventre sa mère and ( 2 ) the judge ought to have held that no cause of action was recognised at common law in favour of a living plaintiff in respect of physical injury suffered antenatally .
7 11.1 Save as provided in clause 11.2 no agent adviser or other person acting for the Landlord has at any time prior to the making of this agreement been authorised by the Landlord to make to the Tenant or to any agent adviser or other person acting for the Tenant any representation whatever ( whether written oral or implied ) in relation to the Site or the Premises or to any matter contained or referred to in this agreement
8 Durability has at all times been a main attribute of the materials held in highest regard and it is precisely the most durable things that have most chance of surviving .
9 He wins a lot of ball in the line-outs and as such is a useful character to have at top level , in tandem with a big no.8 .
10 There were two outbuildings across the yard ; one looked like a converted barn and the other had at one time styed pigs .
11 Most people who use an analogue mobile phone have at some time been unhappy with the call quality , and an unfortunate few have experienced the unpleasant side effects of deliberate or accidental ‘ eavesdropping ’ .
12 This then provides the background for the next comment made in the text , about the difficulty of proof : the case just discussed is a relatively easy one , since the testator has at any rate made it clear that the coheirs are intended to benefit under his will .
13 Everyone in nursing has at some time experienced the abuse of power by someone more senior , and has been hurt by it , yet the system is difficult to modify .
14 This strategy has at different points in time involved the abolition of certain benefits , a reduction in the numbers eligible to those that remain , the curtailment of the rate of increase in the value of benefits and real cuts in their financial worth .
15 This student had at one time worked in catering until her love for learning foreign languages prompted her to tackle French and Spanish as a mature student .
16 order limited with limit k if each node in the first layer has at most k inputs ;
17 Although the subject was something not discussed , almost everyone in the road had at one time or another been confided in and had helped Mrs Browning as far as they could , although she seemed to feel she should not worry any particular neighbour too much so went from one to another , as it were in turn .
18 It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that .
19 Her skin had at one stage , unusual in a redhead , been almost chocolate-brown and silk-smooth , but she was a northern redhead , and had passed beyond the russet and the Negro , back to a strange peeled patchwork , toast-cinder brown , radish-crimson , freckled bone and the translucent grey of flaking skin still shifting .
20 It is this belief that enables Fay to say that her tutor had at one time known ‘ everything there was to know about chemistry ’ and that ‘ history does n't change … apart from you add a bit on to what happened last year ’ .
21 We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery .
22 We are told that the animal had at some time been shot and wounded , so today it had been put out of its misery .
23 One might be forgiven the thought that Wagner 's theoretical position had at this point compounded too many incongruities to make criticism necessary .
24 Yet the transmission of precious substances in the form of jewellery or other objects of display has at all times and most notably during the last five millennia served the same purpose the world over , that of signalling and enhancing status .
25 Where value has at any time been given for a bill the holder is deemed to be a holder for value as regards the acceptor and all parties to the bill who became parties prior to such time .
26 When he sought to appeal , a preliminary objection was raised that an appeal did not lies , as the appeal was in a ‘ criminal cause or matter ’ in respect of which the Court of Appeal had at that time no jurisdiction .
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