Example sentences of "which at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flooding : The effect by which at long exposures large background areas are seen as white ( spreading affects only the edge of objects ) . |
| 2 | The Chelmsford pair battled through the earlier rounds despite their putting , which at crucial moments let them down , but were ultimately found out in a showpiece beset by cold winds and rain . |
| 3 | Yet AMP is prepared to embark on a £1bn adventure , representing over 6 per cent of its assets , which at best will only give it a share of the British life insurance market of between 2 and 2.5 per cent . |
| 4 | In London , sterling ended slightly higher and the dollar finished little changed after resisting another round of intervention by the main central banks , which at best took the steam out of a small-scale rally . |
| 5 | I do n't like heavy knocking campaigns which at best seem sour and at worst backfire . |
| 6 | The first was that the Maronite community — which at best constituted only 30 per cent of the Lebanese — was almost certainly outnumbered by the Sunnis or the Shias . |
| 7 | The major advantage of this method is that it does not depend on the calculation of MNI , which at best is an unreliable estimate of the true numbers of individuals in a sample . |
| 8 | Sam was dark , handsome , with a smile which at best was sardonic . |
| 9 | It was also an implicit protest at what many in Co-operation had seen as an exercise which at best fundamentally misconceived the Movement 's nature and aspirations , at worst misused them for the purposes of a political performance . |
| 10 | This must follow since we move away from direct taxes which we saw to be progressive , towards indirect taxes , which at best are proportional ( VAT ) , and more usually are regressive ( the community charge — now the new Council Tax , uniform business rate , excise duties , import duties , etc . ) . |
| 11 | It is vitally important , if we are to improve the mathematical attainment of our society , that the educational purposes of formative and diagnostic assessment , which seek to improve the teaching , take precedence over the monitoring and evaluative purposes , which at best merely seek to describe . |
| 12 | Clearly , you need to use the time you have available to consolidate what is going to be in the foreground — what is central to your essay — rather than in mugging up materials which at best can only ever form marginal elements of the final piece of work . |
| 13 | The first would be a dilution in the domestic passengers throughput at Belfast International Airport , which at best might delay the sale of the airport to a private buyer or at worst , if the numbers were so poor , that no buyer would come forward . |
| 14 | In the novel , however , Marcel finds that this exploration mostly leads to a dead end , since the conscious effort of remembering , which is after all an effort of mind and will , is something which at best yields only a lifeless image of the past . |
| 15 | Understandably , these fires — which at thirty shillings were cheap to buy and easy to install — were widely sold in their millions in the postwar years . |
| 16 | These high frequency radio programmes can be bounced off the ionosphere which at certain high frequencies acts like an electrically charged mirror . |
| 17 | Alexander was probably right to think , as he evidently did , that he would be better off if Persia rather than Athens ruled the Aegean : within a decade of the establishment of the Delian League , Athens began the expansion in the north , and the attempt to settle Amphipolis , on the River Strymon , which at certain times in the next century and a half dominated her foreign policy to the exclusion of all else ( Thuc. iv.102 ; Σ Aischin. ii.31 ) . |
| 18 | Each lamella consists of a pair of membranes which at certain points are interspaced by a third membrane , the GRANAL REGION of the chloroplast . |
| 19 | And towering above is Sgurr Alasdair which at 3,251 feet is the highest peak in the Cuillin . |
| 20 | Sardinia is a land whose past is riddled with bloody brigandry and often inexplicable feuding ; a land which at various times in the past has bowed the knee to such untoward arrivals as the Vandals and the Goths ( not to mention the supreme midfield general of his day , Napoleon Bonaparte ) . |
| 21 | The immediate result is that alongside a few major clerics such as Runcie and Jenkins , we find that Stalker , Sampson , Anderton , Alderson , Newman , Imbert , Dear , Oxford , and Hermon are national personalities , while a second division of chief officers regularly proclaim on a range of subjects which at other times would lie outside the province of the police . |
| 22 | Eagles needed to witness the migrations of the smaller birds , or to fly afield to see the world beyond territories which at other times of the year they spent their time protecting and never left . |
| 23 | Yet I could see , sitting next to him , that it brought him contentment which at other levels he lacked . |
| 24 | The WEA has obligations which at all costs it must strive to fulfil . |
| 25 | High-profile , big money American football is a game in which at all levels — schoolboy included — deliberately maiming and crippling opposition players is regarded as a legitimate tactic . |
| 26 | The metal foil was there for use in the manufacture of goods of a common type which at all material times were needed for the general benefit of the community . ’ |
| 27 | The Christian Democrats ( Christlich-Demokratische Union — CDU ) and the Free Democratic Party ( Freie Demokratische Partei — FDP ) , which at federal level formed the governing coalition , each lost around 4 per cent of the vote as compared with March 1985 . |
| 28 | The plan 's other goals included : ( i ) growth in agricultural output averaging 3.2 per cent ; ( ii ) an increase in the national savings rate from 12.4 per cent to 16 per cent of GDP ; ( iii ) a rise in government tax revenue from 8.5 per cent to 10.5 per cent of GDP and a cut in the budget deficit from 2 per cent to 1 per cent of GDP ; and ( iv ) a cut in the population growth rate which at 2.1 per cent per year was one of the highest in Asia . |
| 29 | ‘ It seems possible to place France in the company of those countries — Germany and the US included — which at mid century experienced a ‘ railway Kondratieff ’ with emphatic growth-industry capabilities ’ ( Trebilcock , 1981 ) . |
| 30 | And that to him seems to be the answer to a problem which at sometime or another must have exercised most of use , and which he explains in the pamphlet which accompanies the display ; ‘ The art gallery , that supposed refuge and den of tranquility , I find a troubled place . |