Example sentences of "they [verb] be at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what they produced were at best permanent monuments of erudition on which we still draw , and at worst giant-sized pamphlets which are now read , if at all , only for their interest as literature . |
| 2 | The gestures they make are at one with their interesting footwork . |
| 3 | This year 's ‘ local ’ booking they say is at Old Shildon Working Men 's Club on February 14 . |
| 4 | And , they were often not released until they 'd been at this casual ward for two days . |
| 5 | He went on to say that they had been at great pains to build up an efficient fifth-column unit and should not be expected to give up their best men as soon as they were trained . |
| 6 | It is a decay that became inevitable when the infamous Beeching Plan substituted the crass motif of economic viability for that of communal need , and ripped out the steel vertebrae of the nation , leaving whole areas more isolated than they had been at any time since the eighteenth century . |
| 7 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 8 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 9 | They have been at each others ' throats . |
| 10 | Supporters of gun control are in a stronger position now than they have been at any time since 1968 , after the shootings of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy . |