Example sentences of "they [am/are] [adv] [verb] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The failure to come to terms with this task casts light on , though it does not excuse , the hectic character of the final part of Braudel 's Méditerranée : even when connections are traced between conjonctures and the actions of individuals , they tend to leave the actions heavily under-determined — so much so , in some cases , that they are barely explained at all . |
| 2 | The answer seems to be that they are barely used at all . |
| 3 | The streets are n't cleaned often enough or they are n't cleaned at all . |
| 4 | Secondly , you will best get there by squeezing all you can out of every position you hold and out of the experience of every man you serve or meet : pick their brains , study their successes and their failures ; never be afraid to ask questions or put new ideas , but do not get upset or angry if they are not accepted at first , and do not assume that the other man 's judgment is wrong . |
| 5 | They are not suited at all to a general tropical community tank . |
| 6 | They are mainly aimed at 14–25 year olds but all of those listed here are also available to older people . |
| 7 | When this happens the rest of the school , who along the way have trained with the successful runner , may have beaten him on occasion , have been course markers , marshals , timekeepers , supporters and team-mates , really feel that sport is n't just another soap opera glimpsed on television or paraded through the back pages of the newspapers — it 's something that they are actively experiencing at first hand for themselves . |
| 8 | The ANC wants its foreign supporters to ensure that once sanctions are declared dead there will be a concerted campaign to make certain that they are actually lifted at all levels in all countries . |
| 9 | They 're also looking at some of the data integrity erm issues one of which is potentially quite a major problem and the new system will for any qualifying plans , once the new system is in , if a policy 's in arrears it will try and collect the arrears and it will collect up to a maximum of two premiums each month until the policy 's in force and up to date . |
| 10 | The Ministry , the Veterinary Products Committee is now going away and they 're going to do even , even more work on it , erm , so I honestly do n't think that , that we 're going to get much more out of the Ministry until Veterinary Products Committee have come back and looked at it yet again , because the , the answer that you 'll get is that they 're already looking at that side of it . |
| 11 | right , and I look over to Roger and Roger 's flicking through his notes like this and as you , you were peeping through and he 's trying to find out what , what he 's talking about , they 're not looking at each other and anyway at the end of it , er we went through it and at the end of it he turned round and went how was it , what were you playing at , what was that spiel that you gave it 's in my brief , that 's one of my objections |
| 12 | they 're not affected at all . |
| 13 | They 're hardly moving at all — I can nearly keep up with them just by walking quick . |