Example sentences of "[conj] they be at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long hot days of summer are with us again — or they were at the time of writing , and long may they continue . |
| 2 | Although they were at the agricultural policies undoubtedly continue to be relevant , still have a significant part to play in many current situations . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | With the yield on 30-year Treasury bonds at 8.25% and that on three-month bills at 6.6% , long- and short-term interest rates are now lower than they were at the end of the two previous deep recessions , in 1981 and 1973 . |
| 5 | As the campaign enters the final furlong the Tories in the campaign team know they are no closer to finding a magic formula than they were at the outset . |
| 6 | Although incomes in the 1980s were substantially higher in real terms than they were at the end of the 1950s , there has been no sustained decrease in inequality ; in fact , as we saw in chapter 5 ( figure 5.5 ) , income inequality in Britain increased sharply after 1976 . |
| 7 | The shorter estimate comes from one or two ‘ optimists ’ within the electricity supply industry who believe that the opponents to the plans to build the Sizewell PWR will prove less persistent than they were at the inquiry into the plans to expand the nuclear fuel plant at Windscale in Cumbria . |
| 8 | In that year , Haringey 's Labour councillors learned more about heterosexism than they would ever have believed possible , and they have become far more articulate in their defence of lesbian and gay rights than they were at the time of their election . |
| 9 | AFRICA is the only continent in the poor world where people ended the 1980s worse off than they were at the start . |
| 10 | Moreover , although their constitutional and political position depended on their new relationship to " the people " they were not instructed delegates of their constituents any more than they were at the mercy of the party whips in the Commons . |
| 11 | Lyndon Bolton , the managing director , yesterday described prospects as more encouraging than they were at the time of the interim report in August . |
| 12 | At the end of a day 's banking some banks are going to be more liquid , as a result of net deposits and other banks are going to be less liquid than they were at the beginning of the day 's business , as a result of a net withdrawal of deposits . |
| 13 | The situation that , that a lot of people find themselves in nowadays , now er council housing is no longer available to an awful lot of people , is that they 're at the mercy of private landlords , and in order to have any kind of home they have to go along this sort of conditions and rent levels laid down by private landlords . |
| 14 | There is a coffee bar here and women selling embroidery and woollens line the path to the viewpoint — for all that they are at a good tourist point , the prices here and at other such places around the island usually remain reasonable . |
| 15 | Dall has produced writing to the staggering scale of 250 bibles to the square inch , small enough to write one bible on a pinhead , but the individual letters on that scale are so minute , no higher than a micrometre ( one or two wavelengths of visible light ) , that they are at the limit of resolution of optical microscopes . |
| 16 | If the second person says that his cards are in the first and last row you know that they are at the t in mutus and the t in dedit . |
| 17 | Despite the fact that they are at the most 6 in ( 15 cm ) long , they can make leaps of up to 6 ft ( 1.8 m ) . |
| 18 | Also , I was always under the impression that the likes of Constable , whilst in full knowledge that they were at the top of their profession , regarded themselves as craftsmen . |
| 19 | As to the Scottish electorate , I reassure the hon. Gentleman that they were at the forefront in seeking the abolition of domestic rates and they will be at the forefront in resisting their reintroduction by the Opposition . |
| 20 | It was just little homies who thought , because it 's Normski , and they 're at a rock club , it 's cool to throw things and boo . ’ |
| 21 | and they 're at the start line . |
| 22 | Because Dannii was famous and they were at the same school , Kylie wanted to make a name for herself . |
| 23 | Another five minutes and they were at the edge of the meadow . |
| 24 | Barely pause and they were at the foot of a steep corner crack . |
| 25 | So if the carriages are at the right , you must set them for an anti-clockwise circle , if they 're at the left , for a clockwise circle ( Figure 2 ) . |
| 26 | Such features are usually called raised beaches if they are at a low level , approximately below 50 m ( 150 ft ) OD , and marine terraces , platforms , benches or erosion surfaces if they are above this level . |
| 27 | Mount the fitting either directly to the lugs at each side of the box if they are at the standard 51mm ( 2″ ) centres ; otherwise use screws and wallplugs as before . |
| 28 | Under the council tax , that hierarchy will be extended to two tenants , who , if they are at the same level in that hierarchy , could become responsible for each other 's council tax jointly and severally . |
| 29 | He accused his country 's batsmen of playing ‘ shots as if they were at a gunfight in the old Wild West ’ . |
| 30 | It was n't the ‘ gentle , angelic Allen of earlier readings in London ’ , wrote McGrath , and ‘ some of the audience responded as if they were at a bear baiting ’ . |