Example sentences of "they [be] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does prevent us from assuming that students are being educated because they are at a university , irrespective of what their studies are . |
| 2 | They are at a disadvantage in the job market because of lower education and training levels , cultural prejudice and domestic responsibilities . |
| 3 | There are times when the word unbelief is used to describe the doubts of those who are definitely believers but only when they are at a stage of doubting which is rationally inexcusable and well on the way to becoming fullgrown unbelief . |
| 4 | They are at a stage when they are likely to be concerned with a variety of complex issues ; the meaning of life , the existence of God , ideologies , their emerging sexuality , their future career and life-style — too often science is seen as being purely instrumental with nothing to contribute to these debates . |
| 5 | As soon as the goods are delivered to the Buyer in accordance with this contract they are at the Buyer 's risk . |
| 6 | 8(2) As soon as the goods are delivered to the Buyer in accordance with this contract they are at the Buyer 's risk . |
| 7 | They are at the bottom of the heap . |
| 8 | Yet here they are at the Lyric , Hammersmith , with a magical production of The Winter 's Tale , which honours this great play while doing full justice to Complicite 's distinctive eccentricity . |
| 9 | Then at work they are at the whim of the boss . |
| 10 | ( 4 ) You may use the premises for the sole purpose of … ( 5 ) You will keep the premises clean and tidy and will leave them in no worse condition than that in which they are at the date of this letter and free from rubbish . |
| 11 | That 's all they are at the minute cards ! |
| 12 | Making the means of production into private property leads to exploitation , for if people have no access to the means of production they are at the mercy of those who do . |
| 13 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 14 | With that relationship gone , they are at the mercy of more laws and more political meddling . |
| 15 | Without the anchor of personal conviction they are at the mercy of every ebb and flow of opinion . |
| 16 | And most single people and er most young people in particular , fall outside that definition and that means that they really have no access to council housing of any kind and er they also find it very hard to get into the private rented sector , because of er the fact that 's it 's er , the rents are so high , and , and therefore they are at the mercy of erm basically the well , well loosely what one could describe as the bad landlords , the sharks , who will er exploit their situation . |
| 17 | Perhaps it can be said that , when people are searching for meaning , they are at the beginning of a journey , not at the end of it . |
| 18 | They are at the expense of people who have nothing to do with the production or consumption of a product — but who end up paying the costs . |
| 19 | Dall has produced writing to the staggering scale of 250 bibles to the square inch , small enough to write one bible on a pinhead , but the individual letters on that scale are so minute , no higher than a micrometre ( one or two wavelengths of visible light ) , that they are at the limit of resolution of optical microscopes . |
| 20 | ‘ Clearly the Kurds , one way or another , are going to present an enormous problem to the courts very shortly , as they are at the moment to the Home Office , ’ Mr Justice Schiemann said . |
| 21 | Even presented in outline like that , it is reasonably clear that under green regimes Europeans would , by any conventional standards , become a great deal poorer than they are at the moment . |
| 22 | ‘ We buy 50 to 60 cars a year , and if they prove to be as good as they are at the moment at the end of the year I think we could be in the market again for more diesels . |
| 23 | ‘ They are at the moment . |
| 24 | er as to what would happen to the metered charges as as against what they are at the moment . |
| 25 | and they 're not there t as they are at the moment to meet the needs of the Greater York area . |
| 26 | I mean they are at the moment and if I have a meeting well after about an hour it seems as though you 've |
| 27 | not to let them get out of the pov that 's what I 'm saying , it suits them because they can buy up property much cheaper than if that two hundred pounds a week that 's being spent on bed and breakfast , that , they were spent on helping them with the problems as they are at the moment . |
| 28 | I think a lot of the current concern about schools being accountable is partly because things that in fact are being done are not being seen to be done , and I think if many of the things that we already done were more obviously being seen to be done , and perhaps also thought through rather more carefully as to how they were being done , the public would feel generally erm happier about what was going on in their schools than perhaps they are at the moment . |
| 29 | Yes , I think talking about the stiff upper lippers I think we have to work with people where they are an if that 's where they are at the moment , that 's fine . |
| 30 | Well I mean I can assure them that the , the National Rivers Authority in the Thames region is monitoring rivers on a daily basis throughout the year and that we would hope to deal with pollution incidents as they occur , and we would hope with our monitoring and the pressure we put on third parties to er actually over the years , to improve things from what they are at the moment and to make things better . |