Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [adv prt] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Criticism of the empress has developed along at least three different lines . |
| 2 | In the US , where the government is the only major backer , research has limped along at about half a million dollars a year . |
| 3 | Their union has not only survived the rigours of a decade , but has come out at the other end stronger than ever . |
| 4 | The only technical challenge of the day is at the home of a lawyer , whose Peugeot 405 has conked out at the bottom of a steep drive . |
| 5 | A cumbersome bureaucracy has grown up at Lloyd 's that panders to the market 's parochial interests rather than to its wider good . |
| 6 | Alongside the formal structures , a network of informal relationships has grown up at all levels of the organization . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , the company 's vice president of sales , Charles DeVita , has turned up at Mountain View , California-based Consilium Inc as vice president , worldwide sales and service . |
| 8 | An oil painting worth £12,000 and which was nicked from the Marquess of Bute in 1987 , has turned up at a car boot sale . |
| 9 | ‘ We included in our budget plans an estimate of seven per cent for the teachers ’ pay settlement and in fact it has turned out at 7.8 per cent . |
| 10 | Over the years this has averaged out at two gundogs and two rabbiting dogs . |
| 11 | WHEN Norman Lamont opens his battered old red box on Tuesday , his action will signal the end of a tradition which has stretched back at least two centuries . |
| 12 | Meanwhile a giant garden mural has sprung up at Stockton 's North Tees Hospital . |
| 13 | A nature garden has sprung up at a Bootle school where youngsters once had to play out in gas masks because of coaldust clouds . |
| 14 | Locke 's philosophy about property accepted the settlers ' point of view : in his theory it is the man on the spot who is doing something to the land ( though mainly by directing the labour of the people he has brought over at his own expense ) who is justly entitled to ownership . |
| 15 | But something I would like to say , which no-one has touched on at all ; we 've all been talking about the laws that affect women and equal opportunities , and no-one has mentioned anything about the horrendous hours that are worked in parliament making it not impossible , but extremely difficult for women to become politicians working in parliament to be the people who make the laws , to be the people who can actually affect women 's roles in society erm everyone seems to accept the fact that our own parliament , totally dominated by men , and the sort of hours that only men can work , making it extremely difficult for women . |
| 16 | The Aussie singer , who has been accused of copying Madonna herself , has herself been accused of copying Madonna , has hit out at the American superstar . |
| 17 | The Church of Scotland has hit out at local and central government for failing to bridge the care gap . |
| 18 | The party 's chairperson , Alan Warren , who is standing as a local government candidate in the Castle ward , has hit out at planning restrictions on commercial development in the north of the city . |
| 19 | A LOWER Ormeau community group has hit out at South Belfast MP Martin Smyth 's recent statement that it should learn a lesson in tolerance from a Belfast cross-community campaigner . |
| 20 | Wheelchair-bound Ethlyn Whittaker , aged 56 , from Great Sankey , Warrington , has started a campaign against the means test forms , and has hit out at the charges set to be introduced in October . |
| 21 | SUNDERLAND caretaker boss Malcolm Crosby has hit out at transfer-listed striker Thomas Hauser and told the towering target man to get his act together . |
| 22 | A NURSE who had to learn to walk again after his neck was broken has hit out at the prison sentence given to his attacker . |
| 23 | Michael Fallon , who is defending Darlington for the Tories , has hit out at the surcharge of £19 on poll tax bills which have already gone out . |
| 24 | A GRIEVING family has hit out at witnesses who failed to turn up at the trial of a man accused of the attempted murder of their son . |
| 25 | But Darlington Tory councillor Peter Jones has hit out at the Labour group , which he said was alerted of problems seven years ago . |
| 26 | man has hit out at a health survey which he claims is insulting and highly personal . |
| 27 | AN animal lover has hit out at youths who use catapults to injure ducks in a Darlington park . |
| 28 | SINEAD O'CONNOR 's record label Chrysalis has hit back at tabloid criticism of the sleeve of her current single ‘ Success Has Made A Failure Of Our Home ’ . |
| 29 | Cleveland County fire officer Bill Cooney has hit back at criticism of the service . |
| 30 | A DOCTOR has hit back at claims a national medical conference will be turned into a political issue . |