Example sentences of "they [be] at a [noun] " 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 | And then they 're at a disadvantage when they have to deal with real life problems . ’ |
| 6 | People have been talking to him about sickness and that if an office has erm people that are off sick a lot more than another office they 're at a disadvantage . |
| 7 | Cos the others are different generations , they 're at a disadvantage cos they 're the same generation Andy |
| 8 | It was just little homies who thought , because it 's Normski , and they 're at a rock club , it 's cool to throw things and boo . ’ |
| 9 | They pretend they 're at a party in their lunch break . |
| 10 | Oh yes , and the audience have to pretend they 're at a football match . |
| 11 | Okay , but I just wanted to go on to say that I think in reviewing how the budget may be brought more closely under control in the coming year , officers will need to look at the erm size of the committees because we are working with committees at the moment that are larger than those committees which used to exist when this year 's budget was set and that has had some impact and we need to have the implications of any change of committee size whether that might affect the budget , how that would affect the budget , also whether there is any potential for reducing the number of committees further and also whether the rates might be changed , I particularly would like officers to report on what , whether there would be any significant saving from er setting the rates at the round figures they were at a couple of years ago erm |
| 12 | They belonged to a club I was n't qualified to join , they were at a party and I had n't been asked . ’ |
| 13 | They were at a loss to know what to do with this sullen rebel who kept bursting out against them so unjustly . |
| 14 | Far from being the aberration that many Gaullists thought — and that , for years after , they were at a loss to explain — the departure of 1946 was utterly consistent with de Gaulle 's conception of leadership . |
| 15 | It was n't the ‘ gentle , angelic Allen of earlier readings in London ’ , wrote McGrath , and ‘ some of the audience responded as if they were at a bear baiting ’ . |
| 16 | He accused his country 's batsmen of playing ‘ shots as if they were at a gunfight in the old Wild West ’ . |
| 17 | They were at an age when one often does not like eating very much ; and the Greeks , a poor race with memories of starvation , like their children to be well fed , and to be seen to be well fed . |