Example sentences of "they be at [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Only if they are at that time identified and agreed upon , will they be specific goods .
2 I suppose it would bore you to come and see my poor children , but they do need amusing , they are at that stage of convalescing when nothing is entertaining for very long and Mamma is certainly not entertaining at all , so a pretty thing like you would be a breath of fresh air .
3 They are at any rate central and have I believe served for various committees of inquiry , etcetera , before .
4 assume that they 're at that level when they come to us and follow on from there .
5 Lord , she 'd been awake ten minutes and already they were at each other 's throats !
6 They were at all times called by their Yiddish names Bashelaya , Shinageetel , and Riffka .
7 They were at that stage of going out that was n't yet a Relationship .
8 The sale agreed and completed was thus for the land and buildings as they were at that time .
9 Sir Daniel bade his brother Roger , then living at Coniston Hall , make a report on the mines as they were at that time .
10 Least they were at that time .
11 the ministers of the forest … have taken again into the forest lands and woods as entirely as they were at any time , contrary to the Charter … and cause ditches to be thrown down , and interfere with their cultivation , and take from them grievous and excessive ransoms .
12 I think from my reflection , they did say they were at some stage in the future , they 've not ruled it out .
13 They were at this time boycotting the Security Council in protest at the UN refusal to replace Taiwan by Communist China ; hence there was no Soviet veto on sending UN forces to support South Korea .
14 Though all were to achieve success , Oliver as a poet , Bruce as picture journalist and Jeffrey as sports journalist and author of The Spectator 's column , ‘ Low Life ’ , they were at this time a little like characters out of a Chekhov play , searching and bewildered .
15 It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master .
16 Both young men then glanced at each other , clamming up in some embarrassment as they recalled that the fortune they were at this moment vying for had been lost by Benedict Beckenham , for the story of the will was naturally common knowledge among his intimates .
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