Example sentences of "they at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are they at private school or public school ? |
| 2 | So far as English lawyers have theorized about the nature of corporate personality at all , they at one time for the most part accepted the doctrine of the Canon Law , that such personality is a mere fiction of the law with no basis in fact . |
| 3 | But men have had such experiences and done nothing further about them , either because they have decided that there was less to the experience than they at first supposed , or because they could not endure the ethical and spiritual demands which were implied in the unspoken , ineffable moment of divine knowledge . |
| 4 | ‘ From … from what I gathered from the nurse it was n't as serious as they at first thought . |
| 5 | Critics of the firm as a cooperative family have produced a more penetrating assessment of Japanese industrial relations which shows them to be less unique than they at first appear . |
| 6 | It is not clear at present exactly what the rules are in such cases , nor whether the choices of readings are as clear-cut as they at first seem . |
| 7 | Once again , the setting is theatrical , and the perspectives are varied — Act I presents the audience at a play ; Act II shows the characters in the play , and yet even they are not what they at first seem , as Frayn offers both the lines they are delivering and the thoughts they are actually thinking . |
| 8 | Like the people drinking coffee in Mostar 's post-apocalyptic streets , one soon learns to adapt to new circumstances , however terrible they at first seem . |
| 9 | ‘ Who were they at that stage ? ’ |
| 10 | They 've bound to go for it are n't they at that age . |
| 11 | The good nature and humour of most Scotsmen never failed to appreciate the situation , ( an immigrant father taking his kids out for a run to the country ) and they at all times were friendly . |
| 12 | the Russian have fucking one of the most powerful forces , I mean up until the Stalingrad in Moscow , the , the battle of Stalingrad they did n't know if they at all . |
| 13 | If all else failed they at any rate ought to produce children . |
| 14 | Are they at any form of disadvantage when they come to university studying a science subject such as chemistry ? |
| 15 | ‘ By the way , ’ said Andrée , ‘ leaving that rosy future aside , where are they at this moment ? ’ |
| 16 | Were they at different transfer rates ? |
| 17 | The myriad cells of the brain are like the shells where pearls are born but incomparably finer , and in these cells the ideas sleep through time , and are cut and polished and made perfect and they at last enter a crucible where the new crystal is reborn and is grown . |
| 18 | They were thus still thinking in terms of the ‘ numbers game ’ when , about a month later , they at last received ‘ allegations ’ as required under the Northern Ireland ( Emergency Provisions ) Act . |
| 19 | Only in 1689 , the closing date for this study , were they at last given the legal right to conduct their nonconformist worship in their own meeting-houses ( see Chapters 3 and 6 ) . |
| 20 | Have they at last had their day ? |
| 21 | ‘ I 've got a research grant , ’ he explains to the man sitting next to him , who is wearing a dark grey lightweight non-iron suit , with a pale pink shirt and polka dotted silk tie , as they at last climb out through the heat haze , and undo their seat belts . |
| 22 | Promising to return in the evening , they at last donned bright wet-weather clothes and disappeared into the greyness of the early morning , leaving us — mentally exhausted by our struggles with the French language — to begin the serious work of progressing with the arctic fox film . |
| 23 | Inert , mute , untouchable , she seemed uncanny and prodigious to Rosa , who wanted her to protest the hectic fury all around her , to come alive and give a sign , as , below her , the volunteers hauling the lumbering shrine on their backs on poles criss-crossed and tethered grew more obstreperous and howled and the crowd pressed up and obstructed their laborious way ahead ; after three turns around the piazza they at last reached the platform in the middle , only a little distance from the Duomo they had left , and the sweat-streaked bearers put down the skewed tower on which the Madonna stood , and tumbled to their knees . |
| 24 | I remember one time er these barges , old barges when you used to come up there , they ai n't got any engine in 'em at all because now they got motors in 'em , but erm , at that time , I was asleep one night and er these barges had been up , they 'd been down the the engine room , cos the engine room and the stoke hall was all in one and th and then I was so sound asleep they 'd filled the sacks up with coal and took them up over the and took the only thing they did do they did n't take the shovel they 'd used , cos they bought their shovel from off the barge and they left that downhill that 's how they 'd pinched the coal . |
| 25 | with some Ernst to connect 'em at other end of the spectrum |
| 26 | They usually run them at below peak efficiency , they run The Russian reactors they tend to run 'em at maximum efficiency which is you 're very very close to the critical level where it could run away with a little mistake and whoops , you got Chernobyl . |
| 27 | The plant alkaloid ryanodine opens the channels at low ( nanomolar ) concentrations but closes them at higher doses ( micromolar ) . |
| 28 | I said I 'd meet with them at eleven o'clock to arrange the details . ’ |
| 29 | To others , including Tennyson and Arnold , it seemed as if ‘ the ringing grooves of change ’ were carrying them at break-neck speed into a future full of uncertainty and alarm . |
| 30 | Barn owls have one ear slightly higher than the other , so sound comes to them at two different pitches . |