Example sentences of "they be at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is simply that interest rates have not been an important part of their own calculations of credit costliness ( nor , indeed , have they been at all prominent in credit advertising ) . |
| 2 | They been at it , have they been at it again ? |
| 3 | They been at it , have they been at it again ? |
| 4 | They are at their clearest in the teachings of the appropriately named free presbyterians : |
| 5 | When pilots from a big , flat site visit a hill site , they are at risk and often make absolute fools of themselves unless they get a very thorough briefing and listen to what local pilots and instructors have to say . |
| 6 | They are at an increased risk of a stroke , heart disease , kidney failure and blindness and nerve disorders . |
| 7 | ‘ Clearly the Kurds , one way or another , are going to present an enormous problem to the courts very shortly , as they are at the moment to the Home Office , ’ Mr Justice Schiemann said . |
| 8 | In real terms , after adjusting for inflation and taking account of the diminishing impact of tax relief , they are at record levels . |
| 9 | Angered by suggestions that his conduct was inexplicable and that he had not offered any constructive criticism during a 3½ hour inquest into Yorkshire 's dismal summer , Boycott claimed that the cricket sub-committee would not accept any form of responsibility : ‘ They have been in charge for five of the last six years but will not agree that they are at least partly to blame for the fact that Yorkshire cricket is in a mess . ’ |
| 10 | Media influence on perceptions is likely to depend upon whether they are at the pure perception end of the spectrum or at the margin between perceptions and attitudes . |
| 11 | It does prevent us from assuming that students are being educated because they are at a university , irrespective of what their studies are . |
| 12 | spiteful , verbose and stupid though rock hacks can be , they are at least sometimes driven by something other than the logic of the balance sheet . |
| 13 | Making the means of production into private property leads to exploitation , for if people have no access to the means of production they are at the mercy of those who do . |
| 14 | They are at the bottom of the heap . |
| 15 | Although melons are available most of the year , they are at their best — and cheapest — now . |
| 16 | They are at 41 North End Road , London W14 ( 071 602 4820 ) . |
| 17 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 18 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 19 | Part-time solicitors , accountants or doctors will rarely become partners in their firms ; they are at best marking time , at worst barring themselves for ever from the higher reaches of their professions . |
| 20 | They are at their best when they take chances , throwing a dash of reggae and a muted heavy-metal riff into Do n't Knock Till You Try It , and when they re-work an old folk standard , 500 Miles , which is now dressed up with a reggae beat , lap-steel guitar , and harmonica , new lyrics about Tiananmen Square , and the dreaded Peter , Paul And Mary still joining in . |
| 21 | Even presented in outline like that , it is reasonably clear that under green regimes Europeans would , by any conventional standards , become a great deal poorer than they are at the moment . |
| 22 | He is not allowed to dissect the fossils , though , since they are at present irreplaceable . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , there is no reason why economists should be any better at predicting that date than they are at predicting currencies . |
| 24 | Companies with a lot of land — notably insurance companies — have to show they are at least two-thirds Swiss-owned . |
| 25 | There might appear to be an argument in favour of consistency here , but it is surely eclipsed by the need to recognize that many children remain dependent on their parents until they are at least 18 . |
| 26 | The posts may not necessarily be particularly lucrative ( regius professorships are worth £100 a year , religiously paid in quarterly £25 cheques ) , but they are at some of the pinnacles of national life , they open doors and they command respect . |
| 27 | Perhaps it can be said that , when people are searching for meaning , they are at the beginning of a journey , not at the end of it . |
| 28 | ‘ They are at their home in Scotland , but Mrs Ogilvy writes that Gigia , their Italian maid whom they took back with them , is returning to Florence next month . ’ |
| 29 | More body to the English String Orchestra ( an idiosyncratic name , given all the wind and other instruments which take part ) might have helped to throw the piece into clearer focus , but , in the final Presto — a rapid perpetuum mobile — they are at least all precise . |
| 30 | This is because they are at the same stages in their evolution . |