Example sentences of "they be [verb] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several hotel and leisure groups are already beginning to diversify into this field : they are aiming at the top and more lucrative end of the market , charging fees well above the DSS limits . |
| 2 | Their combatant status is the same whether they are employed at the front or behind it … |
| 3 | They are employed at the moment at the university-run dental school which is due to close next year . |
| 4 | Made up in a bouquet of floral-design remnants , they are secured at the corners with a bow . |
| 5 | One by one they are screaming at the top of their voices , like naughty adolescent vixens . |
| 6 | I mean , seeing the amount of kids that do go out there , and the state of the changing rooms that they are using at the moment , I , I think it 's really degrading . |
| 7 | They are helping to move soil into a garden they are building at the school with the help of mums , dads and teachers . |
| 8 | Now the pair reveal that they had not planned the child they are expecting at the end of the year . |
| 9 | ‘ When people vote on the day , they are looking at the party who will form the government , and in this part of the country they do not want socialism , ’ said Mr Peter Hodgson , the Conservatives ' Western Area chairman , who was confident the Conservatives would retain all their seats . |
| 10 | They are based at the North East Hampshire Water Activity Centre in Fleet , and the telephone number for more information or to make bookings is Trix Davey on 0252 621381 . |
| 11 | That 's what they are saying at the moment . |
| 12 | We saw awful conditions in Bouzoulouk , where , out of a population of 35,000 they are dying at the rate of 100 a day . |
| 13 | There is also a considerable amount of feedback from implementation which influences further policy making , and many policies are so skeletal that their real impact depends upon the way they are interpreted at the implementation stage . |
| 14 | They are protected at the cash additions that they had er , or originally and they are somewhat higher than the erm , actual , erm , indirect per percentages would be . |
| 15 | These differing objectives can be balanced , but only if they are resolved at the outset , before money is committed or spent . |
| 16 | If unaccompanied they are admitted at the discretion of the Trust . |
| 17 | Each night the Falcons depart from over 130 major market areas , jetting packages to a computerised sorting centre at Memphis , where they are sorted at the rate of 10,000 per hour . |
| 18 | The franchisee receives commission for every parcel delivered and they are paid at the end of every month so they have a regular cash flow . |
| 19 | As time goes by , and more machines are added to the scale , you 'll have a month by month reference for PC performance — and as performance levels creep ever higher ( as they are doing at the moment ) we 'll extend the scale , and pick up new reference points . |
| 20 | Children need to know what to do in these cases if they are to get at the truth , and they also need to be shown that print is not necessarily infallible . |
| 21 | The reason why people sometimes think they ca n't shed weight on a strict calorie ration of 1,000 daily is that they are guessing at the weight — and thus the calorie content — of their portions of food , or forgetting to add in the calories provided by little items like the butter spread on that bread , or the milk in all those cups of tea ; or they fail to realize that innocent-looking things like that canned soft drink or glass of orange juice , or the mayonnaise coleslaw served in the office canteen ( 'Ca n't contain many calories — it 's salad , is n't it ! ' ) can add a sizeable number of calories to the daily total . |
| 22 | Playing United at their own game would probably have been fatal , the way they are playing at the moment . |
| 23 | They are found at the plasma membrane , they have a for a for a channels , a very large single channel conductance of the order of fifty to two hundred picosiemens . |
| 24 | They are directed at the benefit of learners . |
| 25 | Here they are directed at the benefit of the teachers ' own understanding of their craft . |
| 26 | There are certain adjectives or quasi-adjectives which make it rather explicit that they are directed at the relation between the entity of the noun phrase and its description . |
| 27 | If the goods are not ‘ stuffed ’ at the seller 's place of business , they are stuffed at the consolidator 's place of business or in terminals or container yards ( usually referred to as Container Freight Stations ( C.F.S. ) or as Container Yard ( C.Y ) points . |
| 28 | Some of the students come for extra help for courses they are studying at the college . |
| 29 | ‘ If they 're sacked at the end , it 's a different matter but sometimes directors get off too lightly . ’ |
| 30 | They 're protesting at the government 's proposals to allow private firms to tender for prison work . |