Example sentences of "they be at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Senior officers on the Russian submarines are paid a supplement in US dollars these days — $7 a day while they are at sea , which strikes me as an astonishing fact . |
| 2 | We allow the Bible to redirect our lives , making its authority the standard by which we relate to God , just as Greenwich mean time helps navigators know where they are at sea . |
| 3 | It eventually showed fishermen preparing and setting out on a peaceful evening for a night 's work ; while they are at sea , a storm blows up . |
| 4 | Critics of the power exercised by parties may perhaps be reminded that they are at liberty to join the party , of their choice , to be active in it and to use there such influence as they can acquire . |
| 5 | my Lord is , I would respect that they are at liberty to apply generally |
| 6 | Moon 's orbit moves towards 90° to that of the Sun , when they are at quadrature , and their relative pulls , about 7 to 3 in favour of the moon , result in Neap tides , with smaller variations . |
| 7 | There seems no good reason why women who employ someone to help with their youngsters while they are at work should not get tax relief on the wages they pay . |
| 8 | But it is also due partly to less creditable reasons : women 's wages and the benefits they can draw for their children when they are at work are generally lower here ; and day care for children is scarcer and poorer than in many other countries . |
| 9 | Well i i it implies that the Communist Party is actually taxing p taxing poor peasants at three percent of their income even though they are at starvation level . |
| 10 | For the most part , children , whether at primary or at secondary school , learn much the same , wherever they are at school ; and the system of public examinations , externally monitored , ensures that there is a reasonable degree of uniformity . |
| 11 | I do not see how the Asian and West Indian pupils that I am responsible for can take on English behaviour for half a day when they are at school and change to their culture when they are at home . |
| 12 | I do not see how the Asian and West Indian pupils that I am responsible for can take on English behaviour for half a day when they are at school and change to their culture when they are at home . |
| 13 | Shearer , still the Premier League 's leading scorer with 22 goals , will miss Blackburn 's bid to reach Wembley in the FA Cup — they are at home to Sheffield United in the quarter-finals — and also the bulk of England 's qualifying programme . |
| 14 | He is not allowed to dissect the fossils , though , since they are at present irreplaceable . |
| 15 | If , in 1993 and beyond , the double-up Championship Series will also be in the open market far more blatantly than they are at present and ( at the other end of the scale Challenger tournaments can include some players ranked between 10–50 — and presumably get away with paying appearance money too — ) then the long term life expectancy for World Series tournaments ) which for middle-range players are their bread and butter in addition to a stepping stone from their first step on the ladder to fame and hoped for fortune — can not be improving . |
| 16 | prisoners whose character and record render them suitable … should be released from prison earlier than they are at present . |
| 17 | [ I ] n the case of Britain and Israel , two countries without codified constitutions , such pressure as exists to adopt one is based less on the desire to possess a clear-cut organisational chart delimiting the institutions of government than on a feeling that rights would be better protected under a codified constitution than they are at present . |
| 18 | If ‘ community care ’ is not to result in increased impoverishment and dependency for women care-givers ( with all the possible long-term adverse consequences for their own old age ) , then employment and social security policies and the provision of ‘ community care ’ services have to be integrated to a far greater extent than they are at present . |
| 19 | The increased qualified majority voting in the Council of Ministers , to which we have agreed in the treaty , means that we must have a way of keeping our national Parliaments better informed than they are at present . |
| 20 | First , it is essential that cycles be accepted on routes where they are at present accepted — and preferably on all routes . |
| 21 | This has resulted in the questioning of the neutrality of science and technology as they are at present practised in our society . |
| 22 | The Society has attended several meetings , commented on two drafts of the standards , and is on the whole pleased with the proposals as they are at present . |
| 23 | Well of course bear in mind that when these observations are made , as they are at present , erm at spots over the atmosphere , they 're represent the weather as seen from that spot . |
| 24 | They are at ease . |
| 25 | They are , for instance , twice as large at UHF frequencies as they are at VHF frequencies . |
| 26 | Erm and it 's a bit like timekeeping I mean they they 've got their own system now for evaluating how good they are at time keeping and I think the erm the figure they try and hit is about ninety five percent is n't it of trains arriving on time . |
| 27 | In his opening address to the special session Kaifu promised to submit legislation to prevent any recurrence of the securities scandals , which he described as " most deplorable not only because they … have seriously undermined general investor trust worldwide in the integrity of our stock markets , but also because they are at variance with our ideal of a fair society " . |
| 28 | In real terms , after adjusting for inflation and taking account of the diminishing impact of tax relief , they are at record levels . |
| 29 | When pilots from a big , flat site visit a hill site , they are at risk and often make absolute fools of themselves unless they get a very thorough briefing and listen to what local pilots and instructors have to say . |
| 30 | The table below , for 12 months to June , shows where they are at risk . |