Example sentences of "which at [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an air-raid shelter in the front garden which at home would have provoked embarrassment and been subjected to vigorous camouflage with hardy perennials ; here it evoked no more than amused pride . |
| 2 | All of it , the tinsel and the trees , the hurrying shoppers with their packages wrapped in shiny paper , the children queuing to visit Santa Claus , the Star of Bethlehem on the roof of Blackler 's store , below which at dusk a crowd gathered and sighed with wonder as light ran through its six points and burned against the sky , made Stella more unhappy than ever . |
| 3 | Two of the safest field marks are bill colour ( vermilion Common , blood-red Arctic ) and leg length ( much shorter in Arctic , which at rest may almost appear legless ) . |
| 4 | If the pillars are really in the proper places , there is not a stone on the site long enough to act as a lintel , and to provide a basis for the stone-built superstructures which at present sit on Evans ' concrete and iron supports . |
| 5 | One is the requirement that contracts in the independent sector should go from now on ( except in ‘ exceptional circumstances ’ and subject to minimum standard requirements ) to the highest bidder : the other is the reduction in the programme obligations which at present safeguard the claim of minority programmes to television time . |
| 6 | Playing the offside game would become a riskier business , especially against forwards with the pace of Lineker or Rush , who would be given the benefit of the doubt which at present goes to defenders . |
| 7 | A cooling-off period does not guarantee success , but it offers a degree of public protection which at present is entirely lacking . |
| 8 | In ten years ' time we shall no doubt still be using the techniques discussed in this chapter but we may also have opened up new avenues of research by widening the range of materials examined and by using other scientific techniques which at present are only at the development stage . |
| 9 | First you must cut out the airy speculation inside the brackets , then you must examine in what ways this is and is not a new kind of play , and then rephrase juvenilian , which at present totters between juvenile and some reference to that difficult writer of Roman satires , Juvenal , who may be an influence on Marston , but hardly on Shakespeare . |
| 10 | The water treatment polymers will open up new markets for FMC , which at present only has a small business in this field based on commodity chemicals . |
| 11 | the phrases concerning self-determination and the entire nationalist movement , which at present constitute the greatest danger for international socialism , have experienced an extraordinary strengthening from the Russian revolution . |
| 12 | There may , after all , be something to be said for allowing the communes to retain their sales taxes , which at present account for about 60 per cent of their revenues . |
| 13 | ‘ The overall view is that much improvement can be made in these guides , which at present would only be of marginal use to a student . |
| 14 | The test , which at present can only be carried out in half a dozen laboratories around the world , seeks to identify an abnormal antibody in the blood of likely sufferers . |
| 15 | Peter Hughes , manager of the CEGB 's fossil fuel and energy section , told the inquiry that the board wanted to reduce its dependence on coal , which at present generates some 80 per cent of its electricity . |
| 16 | It would shift the balance of community research away from energy projects — which at present take up 63 per cent of the Commission 's research funds — and towards schemes that promote industrial competitiveness . |
| 17 | If this religion becomes the powerful complement to lawfully elected government , which would be a very desirable development , then those decisions would settle many controversial issues which at present are successfully resolved by neither statute-law , nor , to the slightest degree by a respected and accepted moral code . |
| 18 | Since these mid '90s cars are to use Ford Bridgend-built engines , or at least blocks , Jaguar must decide what to build at the Radford engine plant outside Coventry , which at present produces in-line AJ6 and V12 units . |
| 19 | These concern the confused and inadequate systems which at present exist to protect old people 's money and property . |
| 20 | In the first place , the limits of the imagination are shifting sands , and it is not obvious that anything which at present lies outside them is forever beyond our grasp . |
| 21 | The process of encouraging staff collectively to analyse and share their own concepts of ‘ remedial ’ and ‘ need ’ can bring to the surface the anomalies , inconsistencies and injustice which at present cloud the vision of some teachers . |
| 22 | ISS assumed that the first three years would continue with a broad curriculum and would include subjects ( such as home economics ) which at present few schools consider to be compulsory in the fourth and fifth years . |
| 23 | First , the firm is eager to expand its data-transmission services , which at present make up just 5% of total sales ; by 2000 it hopes that will have risen to around 20% . |
| 24 | Or thirdly , it could accept the patchwork quilt of ill-constructed tribunals which at present exists , and endeavour to remedy some of their more obvious defects . |
| 25 | It could thus make an additional contribution to the development debate as such , in which at present the cultural dimension is seen from perspectives emanating from western paradigms . |
| 26 | This would make the European art market more competitive and , in particular , it would encourage the art trade in those member states which at present charge VAT on the full price . |
| 27 | Switzerland , which at present imposes no restrictions whatsoever on the free circulation of works of art , may soon lose its status as one of the world 's most liberal countries in the field of art trade . |
| 28 | ‘ Here we want to establish a museum to house works which at present are kept in the store at the Museo Nazionale di Palazzo Venezia : sculptures , tapestries and the extraordinary Odescalchi collection of arms and armour , one of the largest of its kind in Europe ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ Manifeste ’ will show just what the Centre is capable of when it returns wholeheartedly to its original identity as a contemporary art centre starting from the entrance hall , which at present is too large and unstructured . |
| 30 | THE BMC , which at present enjoys the vague legal status of an unincorporated association , is proposing to become a limited company — a move which will make things easier for legal purposes in a number of ways . |