Example sentences of "have [verb] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Government has stressed at several points that it seeks the development of local district services first , with asylums to close only when the latter services can cope with the patient workload . |
| 2 | The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence . |
| 3 | Strictly speaking , though , the possibility remains that heritable cancer genes may exist : no-one else has looked at normal tissues from cancer patients . |
| 4 | Accordingly , recent work has looked at new ways of defining rural deprivation over and above the arithmetic of woe shown in Tables 6.5 and 6.6 . |
| 5 | NIGEL GOULD has looked at one centre — currently under financial threat — which helps protect young delinquents from themselves . |
| 6 | The strange thing is that the SERC itself has looked at similar issues in a report on the ‘ decline in physics ’ ( ie ‘ little ’ as opposed to ‘ big ’ physics , which includes the solid state physics that underpins materials science and microelectronics ) . |
| 7 | He has looked at marginal rates in some cases , but not in others . |
| 8 | Wilson , born in Banbury and who qualified for Northern Ireland through his mother 's Co Londonderry birth , has operated at right back for Notts County in recent matches . |
| 9 | They have two natural gaits the gentle , lolloping , forward movement of the warren on a summer evening and the lightning dash for cover that every human has seen at some time or other . |
| 10 | They say that they want real convergence and decisions in the treaty for which no one else in the Community has argued at any stage . |
| 11 | Oct-11b has diverged at 10 nucleotides in a total of 90 within the POU specific domain compared with the structural gene and is therefore a clearly distinct but related sequence ( Figure 8 ) . |
| 12 | The marketing blitz has raged at full tilt for some time now , making it likely that this blockbuster will live up to its imperial ambitions . |
| 13 | Although the board paid an interim dividend of 0.65 pence , it has decided at this stage to invest its funds in the business — the amount available , says chairman Rupert Bayfield , would have been negligible anyway . |
| 14 | Festival spokesman Joe Leddin said : ‘ The Japanese man was born in 1903 and intends to play , as he has done at previous festivals . |
| 15 | Laing feels strongly that the chief executive of a company should define , as he has done at United Biscuits , exactly what its responsibilities to the community are . |
| 16 | The Prime Minister gave no hint during her performance in the Commons yesterday that her language at Strasbourg will be any less caustic than the manner she has adopted at recent Commonwealth summits . |
| 17 | The Prime Minister gave no hint during her performance in the Commons yesterday that her language at Strasbourg will be any less caustic than the manner she has adopted at recent Commonwealth summits . |
| 18 | The German government has approved at massive programme to clean up one of eastern Germany 's most polluted regions , the triangle linking Halle , Leipzig and Bitterfeld , formerly a major centre of lignite mining and chemical processing . |
| 19 | ‘ It may be that Parliament has to look at this issue of excluding people from property when they 've got property rights , ’ he said . |
| 20 | Avoid specimens that are swimming off the aquarium bottom as this is a sign of distress and usually means an imbalance of water has occurred at some stage of the export/importation process . |
| 21 | Because star formation and hence the formation of neutron stars by supernova collapse in NGC6342 ceased long ago , the apparent youth of the pulsar suggests that a major event has occurred at some time during the last 10Myr . |
| 22 | Thus the problem of splitting a program between two storage media , one fast but small and the other large but slow , has reappeared at different times and at different storage levels . |
| 23 | It 's what everyone has to do at some time — it 's called taking responsibility for yourself . |
| 24 | The basis for the proposition that individual women may improve their own prospects and those of their young children as regards health and mortality is the evidence that age at marriage and at childbearing , the amount of time that elapses between births and the total number of children that a woman has borne at various ages have a pronounced influence upon maternal and child health , and that a child 's birth order may be a factor in its survival chances . |
| 25 | The murderer has to wink at other children in the room . |
| 26 | The Amateur Open has arrived at Royal Portrush , and the golfing spectacle will draw the crowds from today until the final on Saturday . |
| 27 | This cycle was revived in 1980 and has appeared at varying intervals since then , with some of the plays being performed on pageant wagons outside the cathedral . |
| 28 | The ratio of girls to boys going to university fluctuated from 70 per cent in 1925 ; 50 per cent in 1937 ; 47 per cent in 1950 ; 50 per cent in 1960 ; 66 per cent in 1973 ; and it has remained at that level since . |
| 29 | The monthly inflation rate has remained at four point one per cent , but it is below the German annual inflation rate for the first time since nineteen sixty-seven . |
| 30 | The gang has struck at several homes in Monaghan , Cavan and Armagh stealing money from pensioners . |