Example sentences of "have [verb] at time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dissent has occurred at times among university students in attempts to radicalise dominant ideas . |
| 2 | The strong normative bias in the study of social policy has led at times to a greater preoccupation with criticism of policies than with attempts to discover why they take the forms they do . |
| 3 | However , while Moscow has not possessed de jure foreign bases since the mid 1950s it has obtained at times such extensive control over certain installations that they have resembled extraterritorial enclaves and de facto bases . |
| 4 | Doctrinally it demonstrates that ‘ development ’ may have to proceed at times more by reversal than by an extension of what has hitherto been taught . |
| 5 | Admittedly the main duty of this force — if we may call it that — was ceremonial , but at a time when many of their contemporaries were off fighting in a real war , they must have looked at times like extras from a pantomime . |
| 6 | While it is not right that either partner should always have to give way to the other , each may have to concede at times , for both their sakes and for the well-being of their marriage . |
| 7 | She had the sudden awful desire to yell at Anne , to deny everything she was trying to say ; but how could she , when in truth she had felt at times every one of those things ? |
| 8 | No wonder Adam had seemed at times to hate her , certainly to despise her . |
| 9 | Never heard of him , one of those embarrassing admissions the best of diarists have to make at times . |