Example sentences of "be at [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not plain sailing and orthodox and ‘ liberal ’ Communists will be at each others ' throats — at local level — until they hold a full congress next January to determine new policies once and for all and to approve new leaders . |
| 2 | Extraordinarily enough for a couple who were supposed to be at such odds , they seem to have no problem over their conversation . |
| 3 | They were at all times called by their Yiddish names Bashelaya , Shinageetel , and Riffka . |
| 4 | Professor Saville has written that the old unions ‘ were able to rely upon the skill of their members as a crucial bargaining weapon ’ but ‘ the new unionists were at all times , even in years of good trade , subject to the pressures of an over-stocked labour market ’ . |
| 5 | In the noisy gannetries the birds were at all stages of development . |
| 6 | The reductions were at all levels , including pilots and senior managers . |
| 7 | No that the Directors ' Wives were at all troubles by that sine now they could get those extra carpets for ceilings and special dog-teeth-mountable tin openers so their little doggy babies could open their own bloody tins of meat . |
| 8 | And the galleries that ran before successive doors , were at all seasons places of free air ; and in the summer season were places of mirth and glee , and active happy industry . |
| 9 | The problems that Sterling faced in recovering the aircraft were at some times almost insurmountable . |
| 10 | Molla Khayr al-Din ( Hayreddin ) , Hoca to Suleyman , and Molla Ata Allah ( Ataullah ) , Hoca to Selim II , for example , themselves not having students other than the sultan , were at some pains to choose the best available to invest as . |
| 11 | Their flowers appear over several weeks in summer and are at all times most striking and handsome . |
| 12 | Every human being makes an imprint on their surroundings because we are at all times radiating energy which is soaked up and stored by items around us . |
| 13 | The actualizing tendency suggests that even these failing individuals are at all times capable of growth and development , so it is an essentially optimistic view of the human condition , and this is particularly important when working with older people . |
| 14 | Section 222 provides that accounting records are at all times to be open for inspection by officers of the company . |
| 15 | Touring caravans are at all times to be treated as trailers for the purposes of the application of the Agreement . |
| 16 | Mosquito netting : the nets are at both ends of the tent can be zipped independently of the door flap . |
| 17 | How clever I am at these things . |
| 18 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 19 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 20 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 21 | Now remember I am the leader of a party that has been in the front line against his violence for twenty years , and have been at many risks , as have been members of my party , but when I say that that dialogue is the best hope they 've seen for peace for twenty years . |
| 22 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 23 | On the one hand this expansion offered for the first time a substantial number of teaching posts which together formed a fully-integrated career structure , and on the other it considerably lessened the security of both the " historical " and " critical " paradigms for which Bateson had been at such pains to seek some form of mutual accommodation . |
| 24 | It is certainly not true of Arab public opinion which has long ago accepted the ‘ linkage ’ that Washington has been at such pains to discount . |
| 25 | He had been at such pains . |
| 26 | The exercise of these duties has been at all times , and remains , subject to the visitorial jurisdiction of the judges . |
| 27 | I have been at those dinners where the merits of our contemporaries are discussed , and where Du Camp , as each new name was suggested , would with infinite urbanity correct the general view . |
| 28 | It 's at such times , as you sit eating a damp sandwich as water drips from your nose , as you scour the map for all the things you ca n't see , that you wonder why the hell you do it . |
| 29 | Let's take a butcher 's at those bugs . |
| 30 | However , it 's at these times that we are most punishing to ourselves . |