Example sentences of "they at a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Replacing them at a familial level , the spice-box has taken its place , sometimes simple , sometimes ornate ; a witness to the fragrance of that Sabbath grace that lingers still . |
| 2 | Stephen Bayley , former director of the Design Museum , will chair a debate , taking questions from the floor ( many pre-wrapped ) and flinging them at a panel of designers , architects , patrons and critics , among them Peter Palumbo , chairman of the Arts Council , and Mies van der Rohe buff . |
| 3 | Likewise , sending British or Eurocheques can cause problems , delay and heavy charges for the recipient when he or she tries to cash them at a foreign bank . |
| 4 | Likewise , sending British or Eurocheques can cause problems , delay and heavy charges for the recipient when he or she tries to cash them at a foreign bank . |
| 5 | Likewise , sending British or Eurocheques can cause problems , delay and heavy charges for the recipient when he or she tries to cash them at a foreign bank . |
| 6 | Assessments of the permissible level of incidental catch should be based on the desirability of returning dolphin stocks to original levels , not holding them at a depleted level through a continuation of a high level of incidental kill . |
| 7 | And the nature of the department store — stocking a little bit of everything — puts them at a disadvantage compared with more specialised retailers when it comes to exerting leverage over suppliers . |
| 8 | They took assets on to their books assuming they would sell them at a profit shortly afterwards . |
| 9 | Gaily followed them at a discreet distance and watched as they lowered Miss Faith Lavender into her last resting place . |
| 10 | Yet , unfortunately this positive role so often gets lost in the way we have described earlier , with people just not understanding what is going on around them at a time when it could provide them with so much support . |
| 11 | ‘ Take him down below the three flights of hurdles , ’ Tremayne said , ‘ then bring him up over them at a useful pace . |
| 12 | Or rather , their memoirs were launched for them at a glib and glitzy party by Heinemann , the publishers . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'm sure what I say is quite unnecessary — but they might , you know , sympathetic looks and so on — I 'd like you to keep them at a distance . ’ |
| 14 | These are waters which do not , as a rule , produce big bream , for with so many mouths to share the available food there is only enough to maintain them at a low body weight . |
| 15 | When she had picked up all her parcels and disentangled the umbrella from the bonnet of a fierce-looking old lady , she went up to them at a more decorous pace , and joined in their unfeeling laughter . |
| 16 | With a hiss , the double-sided door began to close , just as the figure of Mahon turned the corner and came after them at a terrifying speed . |
| 17 | When they reached the base of the steep drop into the valley , they spotted Bob Lamb striding out ahead of them at a brisk pace . |
| 18 | It 's good practice to use three balls in rotation in cold weather , one being in play on any one hole , and the two others remaining in your pocket where your body heat can keep them at a reasonable temperature . |
| 19 | Tero followed them at a distance , watching her new friend with sorrowful anxious eyes . |
| 20 | T : I 've got a lot more respect for them now because I met one of them at a party once and he told me they 're going to be bigger than The Beatles — in all seriousness . |
| 21 | Jimmy Richards , 31 , suffocated after the weights landed on his face and neck when he tried to lift them at a Bradford health club . |
| 22 | He became suspicious and denounced them at a branch meeting . |
| 23 | I decided I should try them at a rave . |
| 24 | The last person to see his wife and children alive was Joe Zerboni who had played bridge with them at a Halloween party at a California country club . |
| 25 | Knit them at a stitch size as low as the machine will comfortably knit . |
| 26 | To pick and choose which plants they were going to eat would put them at a disadvantage since they would waste so much time looking for food , rather than eating it . |
| 27 | It is much better to attempt to prevent fears arising , rather than having to rectify them at a later stage . |
| 28 | In support of a recent complaint it had made to the EC Commission , Tretorn cites Article 85(1) ( d ) and Article 86(c) of the Treaty of Rome , which refers to ‘ dissimilar conditions to equivalent transactions with other trading parties , thereby placing them at a competitive disadvantage . |
| 29 | The secret of AST 's success , he claims , is that it designs , engineers and manufactures its own products , and then sells them at a competitive price via resellers , which add software and value-added services . |
| 30 | Hawkins , a Devon merchant , had seen that the demand for slaves from Africa was increasing in South America , and in 1562 he sailed — in the way many Englishmen were to do in the seventeenth and eighteenth century — to West Africa , bought slaves , took them to the Caribbean ports , and sold them at a profit . |