Example sentences of "have [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Meanwhile , anybody working in a pub , a cafe , a restaurant , a tea shop , a cinema , or serving food or drink of any type has to work at all those times .
2 Cos he has to work at five o'clock each morning .
3 Government has stressed at several points that it seeks the development of local district services first , with asylums to close only when the latter services can cope with the patient workload .
4 The managers of such funds are on the stump , spreading the message that their day has come at last .
5 With Summer 's Last Will it may simply be , as Christopher Palmer suggests in his notes , that its moment , its ‘ right time ’ , has come at last .
6 ‘ So reunion has come at last , thanks , I think I may say , to me , ’ Neville Chamberlain wrote to his sister .
7 let them sweetly dream that in Britain the great day has come at last .
8 A quality housing conversion has come at last to one of Paisley 's oldest landmarks , the John Neilson Institution , and saved the building from the ravages of rot .
9 Winter has come at last , and we have had some severe frosts , but we are still getting quite a lot of sun , in marked contrast to last year 's everlasting grey skies .
10 The importance of these statutory provisions appears to me to be that Parliament has considered at various times and in various contexts the need for recovery of imposts paid but not due and has legislated in a manner which suggests that no such general principle as the Woolwich contends for was thought to be in existence .
11 Strictly speaking , though , the possibility remains that heritable cancer genes may exist : no-one else has looked at normal tissues from cancer patients .
12 Mr Duff has looked at four possible open air venues but is likely to settle for one end of the Headlingley rugby pitch with 2,000 seats around the ring and the use of the stand .
13 Accordingly , recent work has looked at new ways of defining rural deprivation over and above the arithmetic of woe shown in Tables 6.5 and 6.6 .
14 NIGEL GOULD has looked at one centre — currently under financial threat — which helps protect young delinquents from themselves .
15 The strange thing is that the SERC itself has looked at similar issues in a report on the ‘ decline in physics ’ ( ie ‘ little ’ as opposed to ‘ big ’ physics , which includes the solid state physics that underpins materials science and microelectronics ) .
16 So I 'm not a for a moment suggesting that some rules and regulations are n't needed and I think that er the trouble is that every rule and regulation that is passed in this house , there 's always an excuse for it and there 's usually a very good reason for it , but that is the problem that the government faces and it 's quite fairly er a problem the treasury face when they introduce these statutory instruments because er no one can disagree that fraud must be stamped out , all I 'm actually saying is that unfortunately upstairs we have a deregulation bill going ahead at all pace with hundreds of clauses and hundreds of new rules to try and red hundreds of new clauses to reduce the number of rules and here we are downstairs on the floor we have passing for very good reason perhaps , more rules and regulations and there are four more tonight and I believe that every government department Madam deputy speaker , has a minister specially appointed to keep an eye on deregulation and I just wondered although er my honourable friend on the front bench mentioned that er the even the D T I minister responsible for deregulation has looked at these , I wonder if there is a minister in the treasury , they 've actually put a minister in the treasury responsible for deregulation or is the ministry actually above deregulation because I think that er I got the impression that the that every ministry would have a deregulation minister and I think it would be rather useful to know who the deregulation minister is in the treasury .
17 He has looked at marginal rates in some cases , but not in others .
18 The chapter has also explored possible reasons why teachers adopt transmission patterns of teaching , but has looked at this not in terms of why teachers fail to do something else , but in terms of what purposes transmission teaching serves for them .
19 to all er o o on both sides , erm there 's one point he made which is terrible important which is that the costs of this statutory instrument and all the guidelines and rules and regulations and orders that flow from it , will not impact onto small b business because that was the key to the deregulation bill and I wonder whether the deregulation unit has looked at this and whether it is satisfied it 's not gon na be an additional cost onto the running of small enterprise .
20 A coherent strategy for retrospective conversion has not been attempted for the UK ( although it is known that there are stirrings of such an initiative in a European context , involving the British Library ) and lack of institutional funding for such unglamorous activities has ensured at best a piecemeal approach .
21 Unfortunately I am obliged to terminate at this stage , because someone has just passed me a note saying that the band has to depart at 11 pm , and it is now 10.30 .
22 Wilson , born in Banbury and who qualified for Northern Ireland through his mother 's Co Londonderry birth , has operated at right back for Notts County in recent matches .
23 Unfortunately on these occasions , all too often the prick of conscience , if it has operated at all , is instantly suppressed before it can take control , and it is this which appears to have become the normal response .
24 It has met at regular quarterly intervals since then and is possibly the oldest meeting of its kind in Ireland .
25 They have two natural gaits the gentle , lolloping , forward movement of the warren on a summer evening and the lightning dash for cover that every human has seen at some time or other .
26 They say that they want real convergence and decisions in the treaty for which no one else in the Community has argued at any stage .
27 Oct-11b has diverged at 10 nucleotides in a total of 90 within the POU specific domain compared with the structural gene and is therefore a clearly distinct but related sequence ( Figure 8 ) .
28 The Falstaffian affability in evidence since April has hinted at more than mere satisfaction , however , namely , a nudge and a wink about his imminent reinstatement by the ICC .
29 Margaret Thatcher has hinted at this in her speeches on the need for good housekeeping .
30 I think for outsiders it looks like nothing has moved at all , but when you 're involved in the strike in fact things have been moving quite fast in very many important ways throughout the ten months .
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