Example sentences of "they be [adv] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The Ingard board must know that they are nearly at the end of the road . |
| 2 | They are not at the cutting edge of Harvard Business Review ( HBR ) type networking but they are I suspect typical of many organizations . |
| 3 | That is one of the options being considered , but presently they are not at the point where they can delegate projects . |
| 4 | The tenant may wish to limit its liability to the state and condition of the premises at the commencement of the term , in which case it would need to include a provision that it will keep the Premises in no worse condition than they are in at the commencement of the Term as evidenced by the Schedule of condition annexed hereto A schedule of condition would then of course have to be settled including , if possible , a portfolio of photographs . |
| 5 | ‘ Their emergency planning was very good , ’ he said , ‘ but the lack of experience of the Chinese showed up in their preparedness and their procedures showed they are still at the development stage in their nuclear programme . |
| 6 | The second is any child under the age of about five , who is unlikely to be able to concentrate for the necessary time — although it must be said that older children probably make the best subjects of all , as they are still at the stage where their imagination is in good working order and they have not become weighed down by the need to earn a living or the problems of bringing up a family . |
| 7 | After electing Labour 's Ashok Kumar last November , they are back at the polls barely five months later . |
| 8 | It is precisely because black workers have been kept away from these structures that they are now at the forefront of what has become one of the most political dispute in industrial history . |
| 9 | They are often at the rear or side of the main hospital building , or even sited completely away from the main thoroughfare . |
| 10 | They 'll delay till they are virtually at the doors of the courthouse . |
| 11 | and three on the bottom and they 're right at the top . |
| 12 | See what happens is they always backwards even if they 're right at the back of the field so you find someone you do n't like and you go behind them trip them over |
| 13 | No cos they 're right at the bottom now . |
| 14 | Eleven million erm , but they 're some way down the track , they 're not at the top of the hierarchy |
| 15 | ‘ They 're not at the road . ’ |
| 16 | because education changes their social standing , takes them off the street and then they 're not at the level that they were , young adults , they 're children again |
| 17 | They 're up at the castle . ’ |
| 18 | you can get th I 've seen people spend sort of quite a few minutes going round in circles and give up on that when they 're nearly at the answer . |
| 19 | Now as the United Nations does n't have enough on its plate dealing with the problems on earth and obviously they 're er they 're there at the forefront of everything that happens . |
| 20 | All the others you did n't see cause they 're down at the bottom so when this lot |
| 21 | They 're down at the front . ’ |
| 22 | Since they 're only at the start of their two-month US tour , BMG sent them down to Next for some smart fashions . |
| 23 | United 's next game is away to Newcastle United on Wednesday , next Saturday they 're back at the Manor , where Barnsley are the visitors . |
| 24 | There 's a very good example of that in the film you 'll see , where somebody phones up , and does n't quite know who they want to speak to , but they get through to a department , and they say , ‘ Oh , I 've left some money ’ , and the caller immediately , and the person who 's received the call immediately says , ‘ Ah , money ! , you want the treasurers department , I 'll put you through ’ , and before the chap 's had a chance to say , ‘ No , no , no , I really want to speak to you , they 've gone , and they 're back at the switchboard . ’ |
| 25 | You say they 're always at the top . |
| 26 | well that 's our friends and Lisa 's they 're always at the party we goes |
| 27 | six or seven times when I walked down Tesco on a lunch time on my own , they 're always at the end one , so I suppose they could get in and out , but they 're lovely kids some of them |
| 28 | You heard when they were n't at the reservation any more and you heard of the new man arriving . |
| 29 | The court heard they were both at the end of their tether . |
| 30 | They were right at the top when doorman Cecil barred their way . |