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

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1 They would 've looked at the lights , I know .
2 AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job .
3 For four days the slimmer knows that all he or she has consumed at the end of each day is the 1,000 calories contained in the meals .
4 To the east , in Wollo , the Save the Children Fund is intensively feeding 700 out of the 3000 children it has registered at the Korem camp .
5 Another accolade has fallen at the feet of Patricia Grant , already honoured with an OBE by the Queen for her efforts in building up Norfrost , the domestic freezer supplier which exports 75 per cent of the 5,000 units it produces each week .
6 The £4 million scheme to build 97 one to three bedroom homes for shared ownership is the second contract Wimpey has undertaken at the site for the North British Housing Association .
7 It is imperative that you do not disturb the meat layer which has formed at the top of the soup .
8 The Bosnian government has protested at the UNHCR 's failure to reach the Muslims in the east by refusing to accept UN aid for the besieged capital , Sarajevo .
9 Inevitably , in such a well-established industry — modern-style factoring has been in existence in the UK since the 1960s product improvement has come at the margins .
10 On he 's , he 's instructions , on , do n't like that dam great bush being so near , he never has to stand at the kitchen sink and look out like I do this is where my , it 's funny whether the winds blowing this way or that way ,
11 And the tutor 's impressions of one student are unlikely to remain vivid after he/she has looked at the work of a few more students .
12 Your work so far has looked at the case studies of three kinds of activities primary , secondary , and tertiary .
13 Woodward ( 1958 ) has looked at the relationship between technology and organisational performance in the manufacturing industry
14 With regard to the Bill before us today , education is a most important issue and I doubt whether the House , despite the intentions of the few who are actively interested , has looked at the problems that have arisen .
15 Nordhaus has looked at the evidence in nine countries over the period 1947–72 .
16 James Bond , for example , has looked at the estates of both Abingdon and Evesham Abbeys , and clearly shown the variety of topographical features which can still be distinguished on their scattered estates .
17 Mr Benn , who often comes to our help at these moments , has promised that as soon as a Labour government under Mr Kinnock has looked at the books and realised the true extent of the crisis , it will realise the need for serious measures .
18 This chapter has looked at the importance of temporary jobs as a source of flows both from unemployment into employment and from employment into unemployment .
19 East Devon District Council has looked at the paperwork and has realized that the Community Council is going to match anything that they give , so I 've spoken to their recycling officer and he thinks that the way the budget is , we 're very likely to get one of the containers from them , which would be matched by another from the Community Council .
20 The physical and analytical chemistry department at DSM has looked at the distribution and migration of salts in limestone .
21 ‘ Now I 'm in the voucher scheme I feel safer knowing that the council has looked at the people it employs , and if there 's any difficulty I can go to Joan [ the manager ] . ’
22 A large number of studies has looked at the geography of those spending patterns , and attempted to account for the spatial variation in how much is spent , where ( for example , Johnston , 1980 ; Archer , 1983 ) .
23 Even Association football has grown at the grass roots with a further 2,000 clubs affiliating to the FA in the second half of the 1970s to make up a total of almost 40,000 .
24 In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits .
25 In Britain and America , for example , wine has grown at the expense of beer and spirits whilst in Spain and Italy , it is beer that has grown at the expense of wine and spirits .
26 THIS correspondent , like many others , has suffered at the hands of groups under instruction .
27 A character wearing the Talisman of Ulric automatically recovers wounds he has suffered at the start of his turn .
28 Although the USSR has hinted at the possibility of cooperation with the GCC over issues of Gulf security , its attitude to this body , especially over GCC plans for coordinated security arrangements , remained negative in the early 1980s .
29 By the way , despite what Dove is quoted as saying in the note , there is a direct quotation from his ‘ assigned ’ opera , Figaro : in No. 5 , ‘ The Countess Interrupts a Quarrel ’ , after the clarinet has hinted at the Count 's ‘ Contessa , perdono ! ’ , there is his spouse 's ‘ Più docile io sono … ‘ , the second phrase warmly harmonized à la Steve Reich — a little too sweet for my taste I 'm afraid .
30 The more the star has moved at the end of the Earth 's journey of 186 million miles , the closer it must be to the solar system .
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