Example sentences of "have [vb pp] at a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This validation from the Prime Minister has come at an important time for the industry as it strives to get up off its knees , ’ said Keith Banbury , Chief Executive . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If the first two years of the Thatcher Government are excluded — when the Government managed to achieve a negative rate of growth — the British economy has grown at an average rate of 3 per cent . |
| 5 | Lynda Warren , author of the report , said : " This industry has grown at an alarming rate , in a complete policy vacuum . |
| 6 | M4 , the best measure we have , has risen at an annual rate of around 18 per cent , and even this year it has continued to rise at that rate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The area of surgery has expanded at an incredible speed from virtually from nothing three years ago to taking over as much as fifty percent or even seventy five percent of general surgery . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | Britain 's reported current-account deficit has run at an annual rate of £20 billion ( $34 billion ) in the first two months of this year , equivalent to 4% of GDP — even bigger than America 's . |
| 12 | Fees collection work has continued at a high level since the acceptable age of a fee note in a complaint was reduced from five years to two in November last year . |
| 13 | Fees collection work has continued at a high level since the acceptable age of a fee note in a complaint was reduced from five to two years in November 1991 . |
| 14 | Between 1985 and 1990 , however , the number of people aged over 85 supported in residential care by local authorities has declined at a slower rate than that for all people aged 65+ . |
| 15 | An American warplane has fired at an Iraqi air defence site , but their missiles missed the target . |
| 16 | From its beginnings more than a century ago , modern mathematics has aimed at a total abstraction in the interests of rigour and distillation of its logic . |
| 17 | Members of the Dan Quayle Commemorative Foundation hope to display memorabilia he has donated at a converted church in his home town of Huntington , Indiana . |
| 18 | After some confusion over the ordering , Haverford gave them a lengthy account of his love affair with one of a pair of identical twins whom he 'd met at a Red Mole party in 1965 . |
| 19 | Clad in an old black leotard and leggings , now fairly well daubed with paint , and with her mane of hair hidden beneath a scarlet bandana , she did n't exactly look like a decorator , she realised with a giggle as she caught sight of her own reflection in the hall mirror on the way to the kitchen , but she 'd discovered at an early stage of the game just how much bending , stretching and crouching was involved and so had decided she might as well be comfortable while she did it . |
| 20 | She would never be a great beauty , he knew , but she had a natural charm and personality that lent an extra depth to her character , and he imagined that this would have been how his mother would have looked at a similar age . |
| 21 | In Peking 's eyes , the Nobel Peace Prize could not have come at a worse time . |
| 22 | It could scarcely have come at a worse time . |
| 23 | This could not have come at a worse time , with the prospect in view of becoming an ‘ officer 's lady ’ . |
| 24 | For the CEGB , trying to sell nuclear reliability to an increasingly sceptical local population , this could hardly have come at a worse time . |
| 25 | She could not have come at a worse time ; a few hours after she arrived , she was a helpless burning hulk , with most of her passengers and crew dead . |
| 26 | It could not have come at a worse time for the Royal Family , almost on the eve of the wedding of Princess Anne to Commander Tim Laurence . |
| 27 | I 'm afraid it could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 28 | But he gave her a smouldering glance and said , ‘ This change in the weather could n't have come at a worse time . |
| 29 | ‘ In many ways , it could not have come at a worse time because the selectors are obviously considering alternatives after the defeat at Old Trafford and I would like to think I would be one of them . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ God witness , ’ said Llewelyn , drumming his long fingers on the arms of his chair in a hard-driven rhythm that was always a key to the stresses of his mind , ‘ it could not have come at a worse time . |