Example sentences of "they [am/are] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company as a whole employs 3,800 people , but only 22 of them are at corporate headquarters in Boston . |
| 2 | ‘ We 've got seven games to play , and five of them are at Upton Park , ’ he said . |
| 3 | What is important is that ( a ) large numbers of people are involved ; ( b ) some of them are at a greater risk than the general population due to pre-existing cardiac or respiratory conditions and/or prolonged exposure in homes or at the workplace ; and ( c ) there is no ‘ safe ’ level of exposure to carcinogens . |
| 4 | Er some of them are at different se strength er |
| 5 | The groundwork principles are a necessary element in the art of kung fu and they are usually taught towards the end of training , since many of them are at times contradictory to the normal rules governing training . |
| 6 | Secondaries can usually be identified because they cluster around the larger primary , often forming chains and other small groups , and because the impacts producing them are at low angles and low speeds and so the craters are usually elongated . |
| 7 | It was visibly true that the CNAA , as one education correspondent put it , was ‘ busy about the job it was set up to do — to award degrees and to make sure that the standards of them are at least up to university level ’ . |
| 8 | Most of them are at still at and there 's a few applications |
| 9 | One possible event being planned involves children from the village lining up on the pavement next to the road to highlight how many of them are at risk from traffic that goes through the village every day . |
| 10 | Some of them are at best guesses ! |
| 11 | They are at their clearest in the teachings of the appropriately named free presbyterians : |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They are at an increased risk of a stroke , heart disease , kidney failure and blindness and nerve disorders . |
| 14 | ‘ 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 . |
| 15 | In real terms , after adjusting for inflation and taking account of the diminishing impact of tax relief , they are at record levels . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It does prevent us from assuming that students are being educated because they are at a university , irrespective of what their studies are . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They are at the bottom of the heap . |
| 22 | Although melons are available most of the year , they are at their best — and cheapest — now . |
| 23 | They are at 41 North End Road , London W14 ( 071 602 4820 ) . |
| 24 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 25 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He is not allowed to dissect the fossils , though , since they are at present irreplaceable . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , there is no reason why economists should be any better at predicting that date than they are at predicting currencies . |