Example sentences of "have [verb] at a " in BNC.

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1 Recruitment clearly has to continue at a high level so as to maintain C&P 's scientific excellence [ and relevance ! ] .
2 Our perception of the pub has to work at a number of levels — mostly obvious , but nonetheless worth clarifying .
3 ‘ The injury has come at a time when I would love to be looking forward to making my home debut against Forest .
4 The joint Royal College of Nursing and Nursing Standard survey has come at a time when Essex Rivers Healthcare is trying to save £2.2 million to cope with an overspend of £1.3 million last year , waiting lists are at a record high and the closure date of a Colchester hospital has been set .
5 A working group made up of clinicians , consultants , GPs and other health professionals has looked at a number of options and has recommended that services be consolidated , and accommodation improvements made , at the Chest Hospital .
6 However once the unemployment rate has stabilized at a new , higher level , so too will the equilibrium rate of unemployment .
7 Roberts , using statistics for 1960 , 1970 and projected for 1980 , shows how in six of the largest Latin American countries , Argentina , Brazil , Chile , Mexico , Peru and Venezuela , the urban population has grown at a faster rate than has the total population ( Roberts 1978 ) .
8 International factoring has grown at a faster rate than domestic factoring over the past five years but still remains only a small fraction of domestic business .
9 The real value of the licence fee has grown at a relatively slow pace and has never quite caught up with the rate of inflation .
10 Sustained growth sounds unconvincing in the mouth of the Government because , in the past few years , Britain has grown at a rate well below trend growth and below the OECD average , managing a paltry 0.75 per cent .
11 The first term on the right-hand side is the sum of the dividend income for n periods which has grown at a compound rate of ( ) , the ‘ super-normal ’ growth rate .
12 It therefore has to aim at a carefully judged angle to the apparent direction if it is going to score a hit .
13 The Transport Secretary , Cecil Parkinson , has hinted at a possible change of heart by refusing to rule out government support , but a firm decision will have to be made soon if the deadline for the Channel Tunnel Rail Link Bill , to be introduced in November , is to be met .
14 ROWAN Atkinson has hinted at a return to TV for the villainous Blackadder in a fifth series of misadventures .
15 If a product fails to sell well , the company may be left with a lot of unwanted stock which it has to sell at a reduced price
16 The scope of Mareva injunctions has expanded at a remarkable speed , and on many points ( and especially the territorial reach of injunctions ) events have overtaken cases decided only a few years ago .
17 The revival of takeover speculation — there is little doubt that European and Japanese buyers lurk — has occurred at a time when the merchant bankers , after a long period in the doldrums , are enjoying a rerating on trading considerations .
18 It has occurred at a time when expenditure on the CAP is again almost out of control and increasing all the time .
19 In addition , the size of the bands indicates that at least one copy of the construct has been integrated into the interrupted beta-tubulin gene at the 3' end of the tubulin locus ( 7.4kb fragment ) , and that a second integration event has occurred at a PstI site within an intact beta-tubulin gene ( 5.8 kb band ) .
20 The microcomputer has arrived at a time of high unemployment .
21 Democracy has arrived at a gallop in England and I fear all the time it is a race for life .
22 An educated person in this model is not one who has arrived at a state of knowledge but one who is embarked upon a never-ending developmental process of becoming .
23 Having followed the decline in the number of cases of gonorrhoea into the middle fifties , syphilis , in contrast , has remained at a comparatively low level ever since .
24 Hence rising unemployment should be correlated with falling inflation , but once unemployment has steadied at a new , higher level , so the rate of inflation will also steady at a new , slightly lower , but probably still unsatisfactory level .
25 Cole has worked at a variety of catering units run by High Table in his five years with the company and has now been promoted to executive chef .
26 Slater , a hotel chef trained at the Culinary Institute of America in New York ( he has worked at a restaurant in Kensington ) , got his first headlines by being sacked from a grocery store deli counter because of his Klan activities .
27 Meanwhile , as Reiner ( 1985 ) suggests , the politicization of the police has proceeded at a pace , and can be illustrated by their growing willingness to respond to political dissent as a form of ‘ crime ’ or deviancy .
28 ‘ A similar thing has happened at a school in Norfolk and a factory in Leeds .
29 Mr Milburn says this has happened at a time when unemployment in the constituency is going up .
30 The reader only has to glance at a good modern textbook of infant development ( say , Bremner 's Infancy ) to get the main message : very young humans are prodigiously skilled at picking up geometric and social information , and this can be seen both informally ( a neonate turning to a voice ) and in the laboratory .
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