Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb base] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This happened on both my Brother machines , the 950i and the 836 , which sit at right angles to one another in the same room . |
| 2 | On a ridge with fine prospects over Edinburgh , the Pentlands and the Firth of Forth are outcrops and boulders with the stylized incisions of circles , cup shapes and concentric grooves which appear at ritual sites in many countries from Ireland to India , and in especially large numbers in Scotland . |
| 3 | There are occasional academic studies which appear at first glance to support such interpretations , such as that of West , Roy and Nichols . |
| 4 | Other works , for example Beehives , which appear at first sight to be silk screen prints are revealed as watercolours , where bleach has created a subtle monotone effect . |
| 5 | Public marches permit the display of one 's symbols : the flags , the banners , the open Bible , and , on occasions , the uniforms which hint at potential violence . |
| 6 | The spectacle of young people deferring to others and flagrantly performing small selfless acts of charity in the local area leaves a very bad taste in the mouth and gives an entirely distorted view of the standards which obtain at this school . |
| 7 | Yesterday the Bundesbank drained funds in the German money markets pushing rates up to levels suggesting a full point increase in the Discount and Lombard rates , which stand at 5 per cent and 7 per cent respectively . |
| 8 | Studies which look at individual factors , however , often fail to show substantial effects and sometimes do not put the importance of that factor into true perspective . |
| 9 | More than 200 riders have entered the 10 races , which begin at 11.30 a.m . |
| 10 | One Antarctic fish , Pagothenia , is irresistibly drawn to shrimps , which vibrate at 40 hertz ( cycles per second ) . |
| 11 | Claudius made two other arrangements which seem at first sight to be highly anomalous . |
| 12 | There are also many which flower at any time regardless of day length , and these include dandelions , sunflowers , tomatoes and potatoes . |
| 13 | The Wolds , a remand centre at Brough , North Humberside , is far removed from the insanitary conditions which prevail at many jails . |
| 14 | Although no definite links have yet been discovered between the first mechanical clocks and earlier geared astronomical models and automata , the way in which a surviving late fourteenth-century clock such as that of Wells Cathedral displays the phases of the moon and figures which emerge at successive hours suggests that such clocks were the product of a continuing tradition from the distant past . |
| 15 | The aim of the exercise , then , is to hypothesise a set of syntactic stages through which children pass in their progress towards the adult language , and to classify the structures and categories which operate at each stage , thus providing a syntactic profile chart of development . |
| 16 | Academics are intertwined in networks which operate at different administrative levels , from the department to the institution itself . |
| 17 | This presents gaps in the text which surprise at first , but then allow the imagination to intervene and to draw on the richness and depth of the images to fill the spaces with one 's own interpretation . |
| 18 | The blades , which turn at 30 rpm , do not seem to harm aquatic life . |
| 19 | Current local state functions are a microcosm of the repressive and class-biased strategies which apply at central state level ( Cockburn , 1977 ) . |
| 20 | Impediments to emergence from more than one cause which exist at any one time in relation to the same area , are cumulative in the degree of their effects , up to a state of total inhibition of emergence prior to adoption of the plan concerned . |
| 21 | As far as actual examples of volcanic rocks are concerned , it was mentioned that the most abundant are basalts , which form at mid-ocean ridges , and andesites , which are formed at destructive plate margins . |
| 22 | The section prescribes the procedure under which premises operated under an hotel licence , a restricted hotel licence , a restaurant licence , a public house licence , or a refreshment licence ( where , as regards premises operated under the latter two types of licence , an application for Sunday opening has been granted in virtue of Sched. 4 ) may have permitted hours on a Sunday which commence at 5 p.m. ( subs . |
| 23 | A portion of a more general two-dimensional surface is pictured in Fig. 3.6. are geodesics across the surface which intersect at right angles ; ON is the local normal to the surface . |
| 24 | The dual processor 512 , once called the Model 52 , however , will come out with 50MHz chips which perform at 65–68 Specint92 and 80–85 Specfp92 . |
| 25 | According to this model , local politics ( see also Chapter 5 , section 5.3.3 , where the ‘ dual state ’ thesis is discussed ) is more open to pluralist pressures , since locally based interest groups tend to be those of service consumers , rather than the various types of producer which dominate at other levels ( and often play a big part in determining what is possible at local level ) . |
| 26 | Since it is the world leader at fashioning new-fangled superconductors made from thallium and bismuth ( which work at higher and more convenient temperatures ) , Sumitomo Electric sees no reason why it should not be supplying coils for sea-going SEMP vessels before the decade is out . |
| 27 | Second , the connection between the national curriculum and assessment at Key Stages Two and Three ought to show an understandable link not only with work at Key Stage Four but also with the examinations and qualifications which are either directly relevant to the final stage of compulsory schooling or into which work at that level immediately leads . |
| 28 | It is because observers vary in their skill and experience that we have devised two related ‘ observation kits ’ which work at different levels of detail . |
| 29 | The result is that there are books on many library shelves which have at one time been declared obscene or indecent and may be so categorized again . |