Example sentences of "have [be] [vb pp] at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man from the shipping line tells you your husband has been lost at sea and yon do n't even know his name . |
| 2 | A similar average annual loss has been recorded at Warden Point on the Isle of Sheppey , where the rock is non-resistant London Clay . |
| 3 | Since the first publication , the system has been revised at seven- or eight-year intervals and the eighteenth edition was published in 1971 . |
| 4 | Here and there an effort has been made at renovation , but always in deplorable taste , ‘ Georgian ’ bay windows or Scandinavian-style pine porches clapped on to the Victorian and Edwardian facades . |
| 5 | Once the court papers have been served on the debtor and an enquiry has been made at court regarding the debtor 's intentions , the result of those enquiries is input to the computer and the appropriate papers for obtaining Decree are produced . |
| 6 | The stylistic importance of both of these features of language has been demonstrated at length elsewhere , most notably by Leech and Short ( 1981 : 243 – 54 ) , Carter ( 1982 , 1984 ) , Fowler ( 1986 : 53 – 68 ) , Toolan ( 1988 : 146 – 82 ) and Haynes ( 1989 : 32 – 40 ) . |
| 7 | A man of 77 has been robbed at knifepoint by two raiders who broke into his home . |
| 8 | A pensioner has been robbed at gunpoint after confronting two masked men who 'd broken into her home . |
| 9 | The " significant proportion " test has been applied at obscenity trials ever since . |
| 10 | She has been based at home for the last 10 years , collecting water , doing the cooking and waiting to get married . |
| 11 | A tax of 0.6% has been withheld at source on the amount of bank deposits , term and deposit certificates etc held at 9 July 1992 . |
| 12 | Why has he sent Duncan 's eldest son north , after he has been kept at court all these years ? |
| 13 | The Home Office has also been remiss about security devices , an important subject that has been debated at length today . |
| 14 | If Professor Wheatcroft is correct in saying that a tax system breathes through its loopholes , the new tax system has been throttled at birth . |
| 15 | The Swindon rider , 20 , who is also the Australian under-21 champion , has been named at No 1 for the first Test of a three-match series . |
| 16 | It has been noted at Gartree that the better the governor , the more quickly he goes . |
| 17 | A ( 1931 ) nineteen thirty one Lagonda sports car has been bought at auction by a man who owned it more than forty years ago . |
| 18 | Income where tax has been deducted at source and on which you will therefore not be required to pay further tax is as follows : |
| 19 | The possible role of lexical accessibility in determining the syntax of a speaker 's utterances has been considered at length by Bock ( 1982 ) . |
| 20 | Current theories about source relationships , and details of the stage history of The Fairy Queen that are inferable from them , rest upon printed evidence which has been taken at face value — accepted even when Purcell 's autograph contradicts it . |
| 21 | The subject has been discussed at length over the past few weeks on Usenet , the international electronic-mail ‘ noticeboard ’ ( see ‘ Taking Liberties ’ , NSS , 19 July 1991 ) . |
| 22 | This is the reason why the matter has been discussed at length already by the Standing Committee , both in a Working Party and in a formal meeting . |
| 23 | This case has been discussed at length , especially in the literature on international trade ( see for example Jones , 1971a , and Magee , 1976 ) , and has been treated as representing the effects of unionization by Johnson and Mieszkowski ( 1970 ) . |
| 24 | What happened at the end of 1962 has been discussed at length by others . |
| 25 | New stock — both antique and contemporary — has been purchased at auction and privately in recent months . |
| 26 | ‘ You tell him , ’ is the refrain they often take to the local schools , in admission that authority and control has been exhausted at home . |
| 27 | A castrated stallion who has been used at stud may continue to behave like an entire , but be infertile . |
| 28 | They wanted to mention the extension of nursery activities into the home , the importance of talking with the child , of playing together and sharing what has been learnt at nursery — also that staff are willing to listen to what parents have to say about happenings at home , and welcome comment and suggestions from parents . |
| 29 | An eleven year old boy has been held at gunpoint by armed raiders and forced to lead them to money and jewellery at his family home . |
| 30 | Although most research in settlement geography has been directed at settlement systems , or the distribution of villages , it is also important to consider village development or planning at the micro-scale of design or general layout . |