Example sentences of "have [verb] at [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many stars have jumped at the chance to appear in Morse which is transmitted worldwide . |
| 2 | Such bodies as ACAS , the TUC , or ad hoc commissions of inquiry have intervened at the request of the parties or of government to avoid the breakdown of negotiations , or to resolve existing disputes . |
| 3 | Does not that show that , despite all the promises and pledges , in the past five years the Government have carried out a sorry and tragic charade and have connived at every stage with Black Bob Scholey to sell off the Scottish steel industry ? |
| 4 | Subsequent legislation and regulation have only supplemented the 1974 Act that made directors , managers and other officers liable to prosecution where they have consented to or have connived at the committing of any offence or where an offence has been caused by neglect on their part . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's the first time I have taught at a university . |
| 6 | Tonight the labourers have gathered at a friend 's house to discuss whether the new government will resolve their biggest problems like the lack of decent housing , running water and electricity . |
| 7 | Ever enthusiastic , a similar report followed the following week speaking of the untiring energy of the Committee and so on , and including the following paragraph — ‘ Of course , there have been those pessimistic folk about who have done all in their power to discourage those who have been endeavouring to bring about this deserved end , and have scoffed at the idea of ever raising the amount of money necessary . |
| 8 | Most ethologists have balked at the prospect of constructing an ethogram of human behaviour . |
| 9 | The ‘ new consensus ’ emphasizes the importance of non-rational aspects of organizational behaviour , dimensions we have placed at the centre of our analysis of organizational transitions . |
| 10 | After ten years in a department working , for example , on housing , the fact that one man 's undergraduate degree was in philosophy and another 's in sociology will make little or no difference ; what will matter is the capacity and experience they have developed at the task . |
| 11 | Many are the times me wife and I have sat at the table with a large sheet of graph paper and worked it all out , only to find that either my ruler 's idea of an inch does n't tally with the real thing , or the width of a pencil line on the plan actually equates to a foot in real life . |
| 12 | ‘ For years British players have moaned at the LTA , now we have a proper national training centre and we await the real success story , ’ said 1977 Wimbledon champion Wade . |
| 13 | And I know that Bob and Sue have booked at the Claremont so there 'll be quite a few of us there . |
| 14 | For cinemas , you have to guess at the popularity of a given programme : it is , however , possible to buy PG or 15 or 18 only and , now , individual films , while you can also buy an Audience Delivery Plan , guaranteeing a number of admissions . |
| 15 | Any proposals to alter the situation faced by older workers have to work at a number of levels : developing new social roles ; using legislation to change attitudes ; improving work prospects ; raising income levels ; increasing the effectiveness of health and social policies . |
| 16 | The T & G traditionally have looked at the G M B as er look down at sometimes at the G M B. I 've heard them described before as the sweepers up union and various other things . |
| 17 | I am not arguing that children do not suffer at the hands of adults ; clearly they do and again we have looked at the evidence concerning incidence and prevalence . |
| 18 | I have looked at the evidence of so-called student hardship and I do not accept that the ’ scores ’ of cases stand up to examination . |
| 19 | We have looked at the idea of a female , in-dwelling , general light , which radiates out even though we may scarcely be aware of it . |
| 20 | The Centers for Disease Control in the USA have looked at the families of HIV positive people who were sharing facilities such as toilets , baths , beds , crockery and cutlery . |
| 21 | I have looked at the approach followed in and . |
| 22 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 23 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 24 | We have looked at the devices which create formal links between sentences ; at pragmatic interpretations which link literal meaning to function and social meaning ; at the existence of hierarchical structures in particular discourse types ; and finally at the conversational mechanisms which enable people to construct informal discourse together and make sense of what is happening as they do so . |
| 25 | Other investigators have looked at the effects of unilateral ECT in relation to handedness . |
| 26 | We have looked at the effects of stratification on boundary layers primarily in terms of data for stabilizing stratification . |
| 27 | Within NERC , the major funding body for earth science research in UK universities as well as in its own institutions , several Visiting Groups have looked at the work of most sections of the British Geological Survey ( BGS ) , often evaluating it in the light of concurrent university research . |
| 28 | In the last two chapters we have looked at the part played by parties and interest groups in British politics . |
| 29 | Referee Ian Gilmour took no action at the time , but Wire general manager Ron Close revealed : ‘ We have looked at the video and are considering citing Jones for the tackle . ’ |
| 30 | The significance of this difference in approach to relief-composition among works which share a style that is in other respects as consistent as it is distinctive , will best be discussed after we have looked at the pediments . |