Example sentences of "have [verb] at [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless the public tax bills goes up , the Treasury will have to borrow at least £40 billion next year , just to stay afloat . |
| 2 | It starts with about $380m over five years to help national authorities exchange information in areas such as taxes and export controls , says national governments would have to provide at least $6,700m over five years , it said , and wants another $7,900m or so over seven years to help all the Community 's backward regions to build up their telecommunications and computer infrastructures ; it says helpfully that loans will be available from the European Investment Bank to help with the effort . |
| 3 | Having looked at both Alice In Wonderland and Alice Through The Looking Glass , I have confirmed my belief that Lewis Carroll had a very vivid imagination and this makes his work fascinating to children and adults alike . |
| 4 | ‘ BHP should have used at least part of the money to invest in new technology and upgrade and improve its competitive standing in Australia . ’ |
| 5 | More than 3,000 consultants are backing the legal challenge , each having contributed at least £10 and guaranteed a further £100 towards the cost . |
| 6 | You will have to budget at least £7,000 for the most basic DIP system , including hardware and software , and you could spend several hundred thousand pounds on a sophisticated networked system . |
| 7 | Grants to commuter services in the South are to be abolished by 1992/93 , having run at over £300million a year as recently as 1985/86 . |
| 8 | The maximum rebate you can receive is 80% of your community charge , since everyone who is not exempt will have to pay at least 20% of the community charge . |
| 9 | But according to managing director Peter Kruger , it is a little more expensive than he would have liked at approximately £3,000 . |
| 10 | She had telephoned at nearly midnight to tell him I was n't very well and he should call before office hours in the morning to cheer me up , but he was n't back . |
| 11 | After hearing several witnesses , including Aviv and the Observer 's reporter John Merritt , who had interviewed him in November 1989 , Magistrate Judge Ross found that Aviv had divulged at least part of his report to Merritt and had thereby waived work-product protection . |
| 12 | It was alleged that she had embezzled at least $5,700,000 from housing foreclosure sales handled for HUD between 1985 and 1988 . |
| 13 | Larry 's mother had seen at least part of this . |
| 14 | About three-quarters of the most senior teachers had seen at least part of the booklet , whereas only 15 per cent of the most junior had , with 60 per cent and 40 per cent for the upper and lower middle status categories respectively . |
| 15 | Almost a quarter of a random sample of adults dying in 1987 had spent at least part of the last year of their lives in a residential or nursing home ; one in eight spent all of that year in one . |
| 16 | The film had cost at least $25 million ( and may have soared as high as $33 million if all costs were considered ) which , in 1970 dollars , put it way above the epic category . |
| 17 | Mr Thomas also claimed the taxpayer had lost at least £29 million as a result of the 1990 sale of the Post Office 's Girobank operations to the Alliance & Leicester building society , in preference to the Co-op Bank 's bid . |
| 18 | The guests are legless anyway ; they 've paid at least £75 per head and shelled out for the tombola , raffle and auction . |
| 19 | He declined to discuss the price , which some have pegged at over $1 million . |
| 20 | The result is that first-time buyers now have to find at least 6% of the valuation to put down in advance . |
| 21 | ASSURED TENANCIES — residential tenancies in properties that are newly built or have had at least £5000 spent on improving them in the two years before they were first let . |
| 22 | Investors can take out a combination Pep , allowing them to choose the balance they want between the two plans , though they have to put at least £500 in each one . |
| 23 | And we 're also having a sponsored Tree Best , where we 're hoping that lots of children will come along dressed up as trees , and have raised at least £10 sponsorship each and we 're having performances on a rainforest theme , and a dancer who will be doing a dance for rainforest , and there 's some rainforest type music and things like that , and there 'll be prizes and certificates for the children who are trees , and there 'll be an exhibition that head office are launching . |
| 24 | Most GCE entrants have attained at least grades A , A , B. |
| 25 | RECENT floods in southern Iran have caused at least $300 million of damage , destroying more than 130,000 houses , Tehran Radio has reported . |
| 26 | Professional investors have put at least $5 billion to work on the short side of the market . |
| 27 | Now I think that the concern that erm I have , and it 's shared by colleagues I have to say at both County and at er District Council level , is that none of those will really fully provide a proper strategic planning service and therefore the , the , the threat to proper forward planning of a coordinated nature across a wider area of land such as is er currently taking place in Sussex , West Sussex and other counties and which is desperately needed as we 've seen in the context of the flooding that we 've just been talking about , that is in er great danger of being undermined and the alternatives that the government is , is putting forward would in my view not go anywhere at all towards meeting the needs of strategic planning . |
| 28 | Nor are Northern industries profiting : they have forfeited at least $30 billion in exports every year since the debt crisis erupted in 1982 . |
| 29 | Inevitably the national selectors are able only to select from those players who have achieved at least county level . |