Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] have [vb pp] [adv] at " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I think the real historical tragedy is that AIDS has emerged just at the moment that the gay community was reaching a sort of maturity and openness . |
| 2 | He can tell them in training , but they 've got to perform out there on the pitch , and probably this game has come just at the right time , after suffering a defeat like that , this is the time to get out there and show the supporters what they can really do . |
| 3 | The three chapters in this Section have looked briefly at the nature and methods of control , and some of the important techniques which aid control . |
| 4 | Grounded in the work of Barthes and Lacan , such criticism has looked instead at how cinema operates like a language . |
| 5 | In consequence , that aspect of it which links it with previous practice has diminished almost at times to the point of disappearance . |
| 6 | If all members of the human race had arrived roughly at the same time at the point when the need for a ‘ god ’ had started to influence human behaviour , it may well have been that the existence of a disastrous diversity of ‘ gods ’ , all of whom according to their worshippers conferred privileges , would never have become established . |
| 7 | The resident proprietor has worked hard at maintaining an excellent reputation for service and comfort . |
| 8 | The hot water had prickled pleasantly at the nameless place at the tops of my thighs when I got in ; cooler now , it lapped at the dome of my stomach . |
| 9 | Though , on looking across at him , and observing that one eyebrow had ascended aloft at what he must consider was the sharpness of her answer , she realised that she was never likely to get an interview if she did not control her exasperation at his evasive non-answers to most of her questions . |
| 10 | More than one man had looked enviously at him . |
| 11 | An FEL which uses a low energy ( 6 MeV ) van de Graaff electrostatic accelerator has operated successfully at the University of California , Santa Barbara , since 1984 . |
| 12 | Figures released in January 1990 showed that growth had slowed sharply at the end of 1989 . |
| 13 | Then , with confirmation from the counts that their political mouthpiece had performed splendidly at the polls , they turned on Portadown . |
| 14 | Unionists in particular will have smiled wryly at John Major 's repeated homilies about how , at all costs , we must preserve the union — with Scotland . |