Example sentences of "they be [adv] at [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It allows them to promote the false claim that the blacks are not fit to run South Africa when clearly they are still at each other 's throats . |
2 | But it is as well for high-profile entrepreneurs to remember that they are always at some risk of being damned by association if they use structures that appear , or can with journalistic licence be made to appear , too close to those behind which fraudsters have hidden . |
3 | Thirdly , people reach a stage of what we conscious competence in that they 're very aware of what they 're doing and they 're doing it correctly but they 're still at that stage where they 're fairly new and they 're very conscious of what they 're doing . |
4 | Great Britain and Germany were only alike in one respect ; they were both at that time contented powers . |
5 | They were still at that stage of their coital symphony where only the brass section was engaged , as the old metal bed creaked to and fro . |