Example sentences of "have [verb] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | AT the age of 80 the Rev. Anthony Cunningham has jumped at the chance of a new job . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is imperative that you do not disturb the meat layer which has formed at the top of the soup . |
| 6 | 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 , |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Your work so far has looked at the case studies of three kinds of activities primary , secondary , and tertiary . |
| 9 | Woodward ( 1958 ) has looked at the relationship between technology and organisational performance in the manufacturing industry |
| 10 | Nordhaus has looked at the evidence in nine countries over the period 1947–72 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The physical and analytical chemistry department at DSM has looked at the distribution and migration of salts in limestone . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A character wearing the Talisman of Ulric automatically recovers wounds he has suffered at the start of his turn . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The plight of the country 's refugees has tugged at the nation 's heart . |
| 23 | Wood , whose company is now owned by the Mallett group , has shown at the Shepherd Gallery housed in an entirely appropriate nineteenth-century building with period interiors on numerous occasions . |
| 24 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 25 | The family proceedings court has to look at the Welfare Checklist ( section 1 , 1989 Children Act ) and , as the writers say , the conflict between the child 's welfare being paramount and the need to protect the community present a real paradox . |
| 26 | a standard Anglepoise lamp er which it 's been going for a number of years , you can get it in about six different colours to match different designs of , er put colour into your room , now if somebody was spending a lot of time sitting knitting and has to look at the knitting or has to look at the pattern then er a good strong light which wo n't get in their eyes but goes straight on to what , whatever they 're doing , is by far the best thing for them , er but they say oh I do n't like it , it 's a bit angular is n't it , erm , modern sort of thing , er but because it 's angular it does n't mean to say it 's not gon na fit into the room it 's the right thing for it , er for the person doing that work . |
| 27 | One only has to look at the halving of the value of the youth training allowance and the way in which young people between the ages of 16 and 18 can no longer claim benefit , including housing benefit . |
| 28 | To see how destructive such an inflation can be , one only has to look at the hyperinflation which occurred in Germany in 1922–23 . |
| 29 | In doing so , the counsellor has to look at the family dynamic with a particular emphasis on those factors which impinge upon the life of the ageing family member , but to be seen as anything other than impartial , particularly when there is jealousy and conflict within the family group , can lead to a lack of trust and the possible withdrawal of co-operation and participation by some family members . |
| 30 | Yes , well , it 's at at an odd angle , you noticed th that because we are in latitude fifty nine , so the centre of this has to look at the pole star . |