Example sentences of "we [be] at the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had we been at the house of my parents we would have shared the fate of the rest of the family … |
| 2 | ‘ I wish it were true that the fund will continue to grow , but we are at the mercy of the markets , and we must keep a healthy capital amount for all needy old soldiers down on their luck . |
| 3 | As often we are at the mercy of his laconic whim : why is it that no trust is involved ? |
| 4 | We have some patterns of expectation available to us , indeed , but we are at the mercy of the poet for which of those patterns may lie ahead of us . |
| 5 | No one , of course , would want to compare the first week of school term with the outbreak of a world war , but we are at the beginning of a New Year and a gateway to the future . |
| 6 | Mr Nixon said : ‘ We are at the beginning of our investigations . ’ |
| 7 | I killed my cat with a fucking spade We are at the scene of the crime Mr what did you see ? |
| 8 | This larger area is a circle and we are at the centre of it . |
| 9 | This could mean that we are at the center of a great region in the universe in which the sources are fewer than elsewhere . |
| 10 | Again we are at the tip of his pen as he draws a box to put himself inside , and as the most private and informative area of the Possessed notebooks begins to open up . |
| 11 | Here we are at the bay |
| 12 | By allowing ourselves to be forced to carry these cards for the convenience of the state , we will be acknowledging that we are at the disposition of the state and its computers . |
| 13 | If we are at the bottom of the organisation we may be motivated by the desire to satisfy physiological needs . |
| 14 | Now , we are at the bottom of the league . |
| 15 | Firstly , I must pay re tr tribute and say how proud we are at the way that our people in Tyneside have responded to the crisis . |
| 16 | Still , no mind , here we are at the theatre . |
| 17 | Here we are at the heart of the problem : holy love . |
| 18 | Yeah it says , Romans ten , verse thirteen , for every everyone who calls on the name of Jehovah , will be saved , however , how will they call on him if in him they 'd not put faith , how in turn will they put faith in him , if him they 've not heard , how in turn will they hear without someone to preach , how in turn will they preach unless they 've been sent forth , just as it is written , how come we are at the feet of those who declare good news of good things well that 's more or less what we were saying is n't it ? |
| 19 | Do you know where we are at the top of the high street ? |
| 20 | We are at the stage of trying to work with a broad brush without much understanding of the problems of detail . |
| 21 | We are at the stage where we need to know exactly where the remaining rabbits are , so that we can dig down to secure them . |
| 22 | ‘ I believe we are at the stage now where the fears and uncertainty in the community are such that no one can any longer pass by on the other side , and there is something which everybody can do to alleviate the problem . ’ |
| 23 | Mr Hunter said : ‘ We are at the stage where we are owed between £20,000 and £30,000 . ’ |
| 24 | First of all , you 'll find how helpful we are at the planning stage . |
| 25 | We 'll have to see what 's , where we are at the time . |
| 26 | He does n't know where we are at the moment and if the authorities catch up with him and give him my address it will be more trouble than it 's worth . ’ |
| 27 | I think we are at the moment , yes . |
| 28 | If it does n't , then we 're no worse than we are at the moment , really are n't we ? |
| 29 | We are having , we , we are at the moment reviewing all our traffic calming er requests because there are a whole load of them and in fact some of them we 've not been able to proceed as quickly as others so we , we need to look at the whole thing |
| 30 | And the other thing you have to bear in mind is that at the time the original structure plan was drawn up , they were n't talking about the er the structural employment problems that we are at the moment . |