Example sentences of "[subord] they be at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although they were at the agricultural policies undoubtedly continue to be relevant , still have a significant part to play in many current situations . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | AFRICA is the only continent in the poor world where people ended the 1980s worse off than they were at the start . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Lyndon Bolton , the managing director , yesterday described prospects as more encouraging than they were at the time of the interim report in August . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | His harsh voice shouted at them as if they were at the top of the rigging , rather than a stone 's throw from his feet . |
| 16 | The two slaves moved jerkily , as if they were at the ends of strings . |
| 17 | There was a master over-ride switch outside each of the stages , allowing them to pass swiftly through until they were at the deepest level . |
| 18 | ‘ Um — is that putting patients in order of priority as they come in so that you do n't leave people to bleed to death because they 're at the end of the queue ? ’ |
| 19 | This is because they are at the same stages in their evolution . |
| 20 | Passages on collegiality , religious liberty and the Jews , for instance , matter greatly because they were at the centre of lengthy conciliar debate as many other passages were not . |
| 21 | It was easy to laugh because they were at the top of the path now , coming out of the Grove into sunlight . |
| 22 | She put on her black trousers and her chocolate-brown sweater because they were at the top of the first suitcase she opened and she would have worn them at home on a cool autumn day when there was mist on the hills and woodsmoke in the lanes and … |
| 23 | While they were at the pub a fight broke out , which was declared incidental to the case in question , during the course of which a beer glass had been hurled against the ceiling and landed close to them . |
| 24 | While they were at the mercy of erratic weather or changes in the migration routes of reindeer , so that they might suffer famine from time to time , they were generally well fed , more or less comfortably adapted to their environment , and enjoyed a surplus of resources sufficient to allow expenditure of time on the decoration of clothing and utensils on story-telling and dancing . |
| 25 | The long summer holidays are over and MPs returned to the Commons to take stock of developments while they were at the seaside . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It 's a job which men take on when they are at the height of their powers but all too often they have been reduced to a sickly shadow of their former self . |
| 28 | Automatic directions under RSC Ord 25 , r8 will apply to claims for provisional damages when they are at the immediate damages stage , unless the plaintiff wants to call more than two medical experts . |
| 29 | Luckily too old to know any better : the amazing Cramps THE CRAMPS : Off The Bone THE ULTIMATE collection of gassed-out , greased-up garage rock from the top gorehounds when they were at the peak of their creativity . |
| 30 | When they were at the nursery I could take them at 7 a.m. and pick them up at 6 p.m . |