Example sentences of "have be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been at this job long enough , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , to know in advance what the different phases will be . |
| 2 | Ever dug up a bed of apparently flourishing potatoes , only to find the tubers riddles with holes where the slugs have been at them ? |
| 3 | Delegates are still addressed as brother , sister , or comrade , but this year there are electronic signs in the hall giving the speaker 's name — as there have been at the Conservative conference for quite a while . |
| 4 | For almost 18 months Margaret Thatcher and Nigel Lawson have been at loggerheads over sterling . |
| 5 | For example , I have been at a venue like the Marquee club to check out a band for a record company and have also watched 30 minutes of the first act . |
| 6 | This is all logical enough given Fforde 's conviction that collectivism comes from ‘ areas other than the British Conservative party ’ , but Fforde seems to forget that the Conservatives were in power for fifty-five of the 100 years from the dawn of collectivism to the edge of Thatcherism , and must , therefore , have been at least partly responsible for some of Keith Joseph 's ‘ detritus ’ . |
| 7 | Anthropologists have been at pains to stress the variety of accepted institutional arrangements which regulate the relations between the sexes in different societies . |
| 8 | In fact Labour governments ( in 1965 and 68 ) have been at pains to prove that they are just as good at keeping out the blacks as the Tories . |
| 9 | These officer cadets have been at the Academy since early May and are now well into their fourteen-week first term . |
| 10 | The baskets measure an ample 15 inches by 13 inches , and 10 inches to the top of the handle , and are hand-made in Somerset by P H Coate and Son who have been at it for a century and a half . |
| 11 | Recent exhibitions have been at the Whitechapel Art Gallery and abroad in Toronto , Paris , Pittsburg , Maastricht , Antwerp , Madrid and Los Angeles . |
| 12 | Admiral Scowcroft 's visit at the head of a senior delegation including the Deputy Secretary of State , Mr Lawrence Eagleburger , seemed to offer China 's leadership a face saving way to patch up its rift with Washington , with whom China 's relations have been at their lowest ebb since Mr Nixon 's trail-blazing 1972 trip to Beijing . |
| 13 | Their decision could also be crucial to the outcome of a long legal battle between the ministry and women peace protesters who have been at Greenham for eight years . |
| 14 | But otherwise I just reckon there will be something around — or if the locusts have been at the fridge , well , I can always go out . ’ |
| 15 | The range of decorative techniques which have been at some time applied to metalwork is a subject for many books , not just a few pages . |
| 16 | And Hathaway , ‘ a small company of dedicated craftsmen in the little town of Waterville , Maine , ’ said their advertisements , ‘ who have been at it , man and boy , for 114 years ’ , sold out their stock of shirts within a week of the first eyepatch appearing in The New Yorker . |
| 17 | Lower corporate profits , the crisis caused by reckless bank lending and corporate dabbling in financial derivatives , tumbling property prices and scandals involving business , investment houses , the yakuza crime syndicates and politicians have been at the core of Japan 's financial woes . |
| 18 | The two men also have been at odds over Israel 's Middle East policy , with Mr Levy pushing for greater flexibility in talks with the Arabs and against straining relations with the United States . |
| 19 | Hounslow 's headquarters have been at the Church Meadow ground for 70 years but sharing with a cricket club makes it impossible to lay a synthetic surface there . |
| 20 | US Budweiser and the firm in Ceske Budejovice have been at loggerheads for almost a century , exchanging writs over the use of the Budweiser name . |
| 21 | So far I have been at pains to make a clear distinction between these two modes . |
| 22 | Conservatives councils in shires , districts and cities have been at the forefront of these reforms . |
| 23 | The culture is named after a village away from the lake , though the better finds have been at Sesto Calende , the town at the end of the lakebound autostrada that heads north from Milan . |
| 24 | They have been at Donnington since Claude Arkell 's ( the present owner 's ) ancestor , Thomas , began producing his distinctive beers in the old mill in 1865 . |
| 25 | London 's Victorian railway stations have been at the centre of the , now declining , spate of property development in the capital , as conveniently located derelict land and industrial/warehouse buildings have been exploited for new office accommodation . |
| 26 | I have been at pains to emphasize the positive aspects of discipline . |
| 27 | By modifying children 's more difficult behaviour , they become more rewarding to their parents , and mothers and fathers who have been at the stage of rejecting and even abusing their difficult children find they can enjoy the experience of being a parent . |
| 28 | For more than ten years , all surfactants in washing powders have been at least 80% biodegradable . |
| 29 | However , since 1977 various other forces have been at work in the cities and , consequently , have affected the efficacy and relevance of inner-urban policy . |
| 30 | Bobby Watson and Victor Lewis have been at the centre of the remarkable revival of hard bop on the world jazz stage in recent years . |