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 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They are often at the rear or side of the main hospital building , or even sited completely away from the main thoroughfare . |
| 6 | They 'll delay till they are virtually at the doors of the courthouse . |
| 7 | and three on the bottom and they 're right at the top . |
| 8 | 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 |
| 9 | No cos they 're right at the bottom now . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Since they 're only at the start of their two-month US tour , BMG sent them down to Next for some smart fashions . |
| 13 | You say they 're always at the top . |
| 14 | well that 's our friends and Lisa 's they 're always at the party we goes |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | The court heard they were both at the end of their tether . |
| 17 | They were right at the top when doorman Cecil barred their way . |
| 18 | I have n't seen him , I , I think they were away at the weekend |
| 19 | As we shall see , families now are very much smaller than they were even at the beginning of the century . |
| 20 | But they were just at the design stage when early on a July morning in 1978 twelve passengers died in a fire on Mark 1 sleeping cars of the Penzance to Paddington overnight train . |
| 21 | Hanging back so they were just at the limit of vision , she followed them through the tunnels of the complex , occasionally passing other personnel or soldiers , who ignored her to concentrate on their search for the fugitive . |
| 22 | They were also at the stage when they still found funny voices funny , and Charles had his best audience in years for his Welsh , developed for Under Milk Wood ( ‘ A production which demonstrated everything the theatre can offer , except talent ’ — Nottingham Evening Post ) , his Cornish , as used in Love 's Labour 's Lost ( ‘ Charles Paris 's Costard was about as funny as an obituary notice ’ — New Statesman ) and the voice he had used as a Chinese Broker 's Man in Aladdin ( ‘ My watch said that the show only lasted two and a half hours , so I 've taken it to be repaired ’ — Glasgow Herald ) . |
| 23 | They were now at the summit and Maggie pulled into the lay-by , positioning the van so that they overlooked Heymouth . |
| 24 | Yanto lay back and reflected with satisfaction that they were now at the end of April , and there would be no big tides worth talking about until August at the earliest . |
| 25 | They were almost at the church before he wrenched his mind back to the present . |
| 26 | Constance was clutching her arm , and they were almost at the church . |
| 27 | They were almost at the house and Ted was already braking . |
| 28 | They were backstage at the Rodney Award ceremony . |
| 29 | In addition to fully appreciating the significance and context of much of the material they wanted to use , pupils also intended to create new material themselves by acting roles as if they were there at the time . |
| 30 | They were still at the window when Timothy Gedge appeared a few minutes later . |