Example sentences of "be [adv] at the bottom " in BNC.

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1 For example , the Eskimos , who as hunters and fishermen are right at the bottom of Marx 's and Engels 's technological scale , have a kinship terminology which does not classify relatives any more than the English system does — a sign for Morgan of the presence of monogamy — while the Malays , who have possessed for a very long time highly advanced agricultural techniques , use a kinship terminology which Morgan and Engels associated with the earliest stages of evolution .
2 No cos they 're right at the bottom now .
3 ‘ We battled well all the way through but we 're still at the bottom , and there 's a lot of hard work ahead .
4 Well , the figures are there , it 's , it 's following the , the very substantial debate that took place at the last County Council meeting , on the issue of earnings within Shropshire , it 's to give the Committee a bit more detailed information about the position , and , and particularly I think , the position about female earnings in the County er , where we 're , we 're really at the bottom of , of the U K lists .
5 All this , and Hartlepool United are still at the bottom of the Fourth Division .
6 Somewhere in the back of my mind I think maybe I was afraid that they would find you although I had heard from you by that time and knew you could not possibly be there at the bottom of Loch Craig .
7 In the information-based organization , the knowledge will be primarily at the bottom , in the minds of the specialists who do different work and direct themselves .
8 The they er even in the dining room you , you sort of , there were long tables , well when you came in as , as a student nurse you were right at the bottom of the table , and as you , you know , the second year , third year , fourth year , you gradually moved up and then the , the State Registered Nurses they all sat together .
9 " I wish you were really at the bottom of Foxton Mire , or burning in the fires of Hell .
10 Now the other two were almost at the bottom of the ramp .
11 He 's right at the bottom
12 We were invited to spend it with Bill and Claire , who have a small farm about 15 miles outside Invercargill ( which is right at the bottom of the South Island ) .
13 Between my shoulder blades , it 's also at the bottom of my spine just now and again .
14 It just occurs to me as I write that Chavasse in this matter is probably the unwilling mouthpiece of the Select Vestry : I daresay even that monstrous regiment of women , incarnated in Lily Ewart , is really at the bottom of it .
15 Sylvaner is almost at the bottom of the quality scale ( below Sylvaner is Chasselas , used only in blends ) .
16 Right number five is actually at the bottom of the
17 No , because because the fire at the back is actually at the bottom of the chimney
18 Because of the vast size of it and the difficulty of controlling it when sailing single-handed , the spinnaker was n't a sail he used much and it was right at the bottom at the aft end of the sail-locker .
19 When I arrived at the GA European Open , I looked at the list of entrants for the Lancome Trophy to find that I was right at the bottom of the list of qualifiers with one week to go before the final selection .
20 If the cursor was also at the bottom of a window and scroll is enabled , the window scrolls up .
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