Example sentences of "they be still at [art] " in BNC.

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1 The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family .
2 ‘ Their emergency planning was very good , ’ he said , ‘ but the lack of experience of the Chinese showed up in their preparedness and their procedures showed they are still at the development stage in their nuclear programme .
3 They are ongoing in that they are still at an early stage and in that the process of applying them right across the whole of the NHS will take several years-probably up to the end of the century .
4 Microtus makes her nest underground in a burrow , so she can safely bring her young into the world when they are still at an early stage of their development , and then within a few hours , start on the business of producing the next litter .
5 Neural networks offer another possibility for use in identification , but they are still at an early stage of development .
6 They were still at the window when Timothy Gedge appeared a few minutes later .
7 He said a clear pathway to sustainable development had been mapped out but they were still at the start of the journey .
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