Example sentences of "have [vb pp] at the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Most ethologists have balked at the prospect of constructing an ethogram of human behaviour . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I have looked at the approach followed in and . |
| 14 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 15 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In the last two chapters we have looked at the part played by parties and interest groups in British politics . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | We have looked at the attachment of motorists for their cars , the increasing use of heavy lorries , and the reasons why governments are reluctant to impose taxes which push up inflation and weaken an important manufacturing industry . |
| 20 | Other names who have looked at the centre but are still undecided about taking space in the scheme include : Holland & Barrett , Next , Phone-in , Northern Electric , Superdrug , Foster Menswear , Adams , Rage Footwear , Northern Goldsmiths and Options . |
| 21 | Details of companies which have looked at the centre are still a closely guarded secret , but BPT believes many of the centre 's shops will be let , if not trading , by the time the centre opens . |
| 22 | We come back to in fact it 's the first par , again it 's the first part of thirty three , that you have looked at the question , or the possibility of expanding existing towns and villages , and as I read it , you have rejected that , er and therefore you see the only satisfactory method of providing land to meet the figures for the Greater York would be by a new settlement , this is the outstanding balance . |
| 23 | ( Biochemistry 32 , 2509–2513 ; 1993 ) have looked at the structure of the unstable mutant , haemoglobin Catonsville , which has a glutamate inserted into a highly conserved segment of helix ( C helix ) . |
| 24 | ‘ I have looked at the backlog of repairs and , basically , we are talking mainly about roofs and general structures , then electrical and heating systems . |
| 25 | Chapters 6 and 7 have looked at the way that books can be evaluated , and at the sources for evaluation . |
| 26 | Those of us who have looked at the development of treatments for decaying stone during the past twenty years have had to learn the lesson that there are no ‘ magic ’ solutions . |
| 27 | So far we have looked at the defectiveness of the product . |
| 28 | We have looked at the distribution of two variables in this chapter : an indicator of the monetary wealth of a nation , GNP per capita , and an indicator of the material standard of living of a nation , the average age to which people can expect to live . |
| 29 | It is based at least in part on a historical view that the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki may have been militarily unnecessary — a view which is strongly contested by some but by no means all historians who have looked at the matter . |
| 30 | Most people who have looked at the matter have concluded that deterrence played at least some part in the process . |