Example sentences of "have be at [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laing has never felt that being a compassionate employer has been at odds with doing the right thing commercially . |
| 2 | Over the last five years , plans for a road linking Spain and France have gone ahead , a ski resort has been built and the environment ministry has been at odds with local politicians over their attempts to implement hunting and traffic in areas thought crucial to the bear 's survival . |
| 3 | Patrick Phillips has been at loggerheads with the residents of Long Melford over recently-approved plans to divert part of a public footpath which runs along the approach to his Grade I-listed home Kentwell Hall . |
| 4 | Bob Hoskins ' co-star Dennis Hopper has been at loggerheads with Annabel Jankel and Rocky Morton , demanding script rewrites . |
| 5 | Mr Davies has been at loggerheads with Hambleton District Council over the future use of his hotel in Darlington Road . |
| 6 | Following Britain 's recent dispute with China over the stationing of People 's Liberation Army troops in Hong Kong after 1997 , Whitehall has been at pains to keep its distance from the immigration row . |
| 7 | Thus , in much the same way as the Bundesbank chairman , Dr Karl Otto Poehl , has been at pains to preserve the monetary integrity of the new Europe , so the Cartel Office is disturbed about abrogating to Brussels responsibility for all mergers involving a turnover of less than $5billion . |
| 8 | Peripherality is a major source of the economic problems of depressed regions in Europe , and the British government has been at pains to stress the role of the Channel Tunnel in reducing Britain 's isolation from potential markets . |
| 9 | Knowing that some foreigners , and even some Germans , would worry about a possible reversion to past behaviour , it has been at pains to show itself to be a reformed character not just by these qualities of good citizenship but by its guilty conscience . |
| 10 | I 've had support from as far away as Boston , Massachusetts ( nowhere else , actually ) , for the retention of old Sir Wynkyn at the head of this column , but now that I have met the new fellow , commissioned at vast expense ( as the Editor has been at pains to point out ) , I feel he 's quite me . |
| 11 | The firm has been at pains to correct this recently , however , and points to a ban of all flags in the workplace ( Union Jacks were seen to be intimidatory ) and its monitoring of the composition of the workforce . |
| 12 | It is for this reason that the CNAA , in approving first degree courses , whose numbers have expanded two-fold since 1974 , has been at pains to devise what it regards as more intellectually vigorous programmes than was the case with the Dip.AD . |
| 13 | Both Lady Amory and Sir John liked to get their hands in the soil — they did all the planting and arranging of the beds themselves — but they also had two willing helpers , gardeners who 'd been at Knightshayes for years , and some foresters . |
| 14 | She was only twenty when she was saddled with me , yet she never made me feel I was a drag , and heaven knows a kid sister must have been at times . ’ |
| 15 | The pair were reported to have been at odds for some time with one major area of disagreement believed to concern a £2.2m Venables attempt to land England defender Des Walker from Sampdoria . |
| 16 | Successive holders of this post and of the clerkship of the pells , which had overlapping duties , had been at odds during the previous reign . |
| 17 | Albert and his young assistant had been at loggerheads for years now . |
| 18 | The MQM and the PPP had been at loggerheads since October 1989 , when the MQM ended its 11-month old alliance with the PPP and joined the Combined Opposition Parties [ see p. 37043 ] . |
| 19 | We had been at Canjuers for a month when Auriega and Herve , who were both drunk , buried Vadgama . |
| 20 | One contrast , however , was that of the thirty-two cardinals created by Innocent nearly 50 per cent were masters ( men who had been at universities ) . |
| 21 | Or rather , as Rachel had been at pains to point out , a misunderstanding of Lamark 's theory of learned characteristics being inherited . |
| 22 | He could not afford to make mistakes ; all his life he had been at pains to learn and understand how ordinary people live and had delved into the seamier side of human nature , but he was still very unworldly . |
| 23 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 24 | As Coleman had been at pains to point this out before taking on the DEA assignment , he could hardly disagree , but the risk had seemed acceptable at the time and he had taken particular care to underline his academic credentials whenever he met Hurley 's people . |
| 25 | In angry self-reproach , Louisa saw how much sooner it should have been evident to her that in identifying so completely with his most noble ancestor , her father had been at pains to exclude all thought of his more immediate and darker legacy . |
| 26 | After that she had been at pains to assure him she could cope very well and was about to go to see her inheritance . |
| 27 | Mr Malik had been at pains to exclude what he continued to call ‘ the loonies ’ — that is to say , anyone whose attitude to the practice of his faith was , in the headmaster 's opinion , excessively enthusiastic . |
| 28 | Since Bartocci had been at pains to emphasize that his comments were ‘ off the record ’ , Zen could of course simply ignore them . |
| 29 | For heaven 's sake , she 'd been under a bit of strain of late , so what was more natural than that , having at last met the man she had been at pains to meet — actually being out walking with him , and on such a lovely sharp but sunny day — she should — er — relax a little ? |
| 30 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |