Example sentences of "at which [noun] " in BNC.

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1 When , on 25 July 1746 , he re-entered London it was like the day when the news of Culloden had arrived , with ringing bells and blazing bonfires , plus a thanksgiving service in St Paul 's , at which Handel 's specially composed anthem , ‘ The Conquering Hero ’ , was sung for the first time .
2 On the first day of his visit Roh attended a state banquet at which Akihito issued an apology which was well received by the South Korean government .
3 Time as at which Damages are to be Assessed
4 The speed at which things wear out and break down rises fast when everything you own is cheap .
5 Maybe it is the actual point at which things are settled .
6 I did not wish you to feel embarrassed by the speed at which things happened last night … ’
7 5.1 In considering the rate at which course proposals can be validated , the Advanced Courses Policy Sub-Committee recognised that there would have to be a range of validation models , each of which will be tailored to the course and the centre .
8 This stretch of frontier , at which part of Iraq 's original 1980 offensive was directed , was one to which both sides attached a good deal of importance .
9 The Ovens committee continued its activity , organizing a press conference in Cork at which Alan Dalton of the BSSRS and Nancy Tait of the House of Commons Asbestos Action Committee spoke and the committee presented its report , which concluded that the planned emission of asbestos fibres into the atmosphere and the lack of effective control of this by the authorities represented a major health risk to the local population .
10 The restaurant to which Richard invited Pinkie was one at which lie had an account , and there was , at least , no difficulty in knowing what drinks to order .
11 Leonard 's circumcision took place , in accordance with Jewish law , on the morning of the eighth day after his birth ; several prayers of blessings being recited before the actual ceremony , at which Nathan his father offered the solemn prayer :
12 Look at the facts : she was seen in Alexandra Road at 11.15 , the very time at which Gerald found the yard door barred against him .
13 Odd , though , that they had once seemed so odd , so isolated , for the school at which Dotty Doddridge vainly endeavoured to teach French had been non-conformist , faintly progressive , certainly egalitarian in its religious and social complexion : it had offered a liberal , secularized , healthy coeducation , and had on its foundation in the 1860s set out to attract the children of vegetarians , Quakers , freethinkers , pacifists , Unitarians , reformers .
14 There was no device comparable to the annual conferences of individual unions or affiliated socialist societies at which Constituency Labour opinion could be expressed .
15 The two leaders attended a news conference at the close of their talks at which Assad confirmed that Syria would " adhere to the peace process " ; Israel , he contended , was eventually " bound to appear as a state which does not want peace " .
16 They have developed a means of cutting down the rate at which water passes through their systems and out through pores ( stomata ) in their leaves .
17 Geologists have found water deeper than 10 kilometres , but the greatest depth at which water actively circulates is usually about a kilometre .
18 The temperature at which water droplets begin to condense is called the dew-point — literally , the temperature below which dew will form .
19 The comparatively recent date at which water flowed in these wadis is attested by the presence in some of the oases of fish from tropical Africa , while Pleistocene beds in the Atlas have a fauna which has been called a Zambezi fauna .
20 The rate at which Sunday schools sprang up nevertheless strengthened the authorities ' conviction that they would have to make better provision for the education of the masses .
21 Since no apprentices were taken after 1910 , and since the age at which girls normally left school and began working was fourteen ( give or take a few months ) , the youngest women in the sample were born in 1896 .
22 In developing countries today , in spite of the relevant laws , the age at which girls first marry or enter a union depends largely upon cultural standards and the tolerance for deviation .
23 The English Schools Trophy is effectively the schoolboy F A Cup , played for by about two hundred district teams throughout the country , and ending with a two legged final , at which Oxford have appeared on four different occasions ; the earliest back in nineteen O eight , and the most recent in nineteen seventy four , when unfortunately , as with all the previous three , we were defeated , on that occasion by Manchester boys , yet er the home leg was played in front of a crowd of twelve thousand people , which was the highest recorded crowd at the Manor that season .
24 The dots represent the angles at which pigeons flew off from the release site : the direction home is straight up ; straight down represents 180° away from home .
25 E * ; is the socially efficient point at which output is Q * ; .
26 Although the glass-rubber transition itself does not depend on polymer structure , the temperature at which T g is observed depends largely on the chemical nature of the polymer chain and for most common synthetic polymers lies between 170 and 500 K. It is quite obvious that T g is an important characteristic property of any polymer as it has an important bearing on the potential application of a polymer .
27 Region I denotes the range of chain lengths at which T g reaches its asymptotic value and the critical value x c at which this occurs increases as the chain becomes more rigid .
28 Signature of the treaty was preceded on Sept. 7 by a final session of the two-plus-four talks [ see also pp. 37659 ; 37535 ; 37466 ] at which ministers failed to agree on outstanding issues .
29 It 's ( more or less ) official : Ken Olsen was pushed into resigning by the board : the Wall Street Journal hears of a meeting with employees at which Olsen discussed how he was unable to make the necessary organisational changes at DEC , in particular failing to get engineering groups to report to marketing , and then said ‘ that 's why I was fired ’ .
30 That is a way of measuring the speeds at which stars and galaxies are moving away from us .
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