Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] at which [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the 1914–18 war quickened the speed of the decline in fertility and resulted , during a loss of around 600,000 unborn children who would otherwise have been brought into the world , at no time did the rate touch the low level at which it stood in 1939 . |
| 2 | Surely , the lowest level of coordinated action at which we could seriously confront this question is that of the European Community ? |
| 3 | Juvénal Habyarimana , and officials of all recognized political parties at which it was agreed to recommence talks on the creation of a multiparty transitional government . |
| 4 | In 1976 the two countries became increasingly hostile , and ministers ( as they were still called ) visited the major towns of Libya for public meetings at which they explained the issues and solicited the opinions of the audience . |
| 5 | ‘ Accordingly , ’ said Miller , ‘ I propose to hold a press conference this afternoon at which I 'll reveal we 're dealing with a kidnap as well as a murder . ’ |
| 6 | The convictions followed a four-month trial at which it was alleged that Sir Terence had taken bribes whilst in office in return for protecting illegal activities such as prostitution and gambling . |
| 7 | The difficulty was this : he wanted to increase the elevation to creep forward over those last 300 yards ( he did not dare exceed the two-pound charge ) but , as every gunner knows , increasing the elevation beyond five degrees can be a risky business ; it is not the great number of rounds that destroys a cannon but the high elevation at which it is fired . |
| 8 | The open-air markets , held weekly in most major towns , are lively social gatherings at which you may be lucky enough to strike an excellent holiday bargain . |
| 9 | We know that both strategies are favoured when rare , therefore there must be some proportion at which they do equally well . |
| 10 | On his return to Trinidad in 1948 , Eric Williams almost immediately got involved in public appearances at which he gave his opinions on historical topics concerning the West Indies and while his work for the Caribbean Commission strictly forbade any political involvement , it did not prevent him from opening a window on the West Indian past . |
| 11 | There were few diplomatic encounters between England and France during this period at which he was not present . |
| 12 | So here at last , this point at which I stood , was the very place , the geophysical start-line at which two of the world 's great geologic plates met . |
| 13 | Jews went into Egypt to exercise the old professions at which they were good — they were soldiers , tillers , shepherds . |
| 14 | The despair is the fact that publishers feel they can no longer sell hardback fiction and biography , because of the very high price at which it 's published . |
| 15 | A geometer , however , would define it in terms of its curvature , the rate at which it moves away from its tangent , and its torsion , the analogous rate at which it departs from its osculation plane . |
| 16 | SHOULD Portsmouth beat Liverpool in tomorrow 's FA Cup semi-final and reach Wembley , Mike Neasom , football and cricket writer for The News , Portsmouth , will prepare to visit the 95th English ground at which he has covered Pompey . |
| 17 | By 1967 Ceauşescu had already staged several historical pageants at which he met the heroes of the Romanian past and of his own childhood games . |
| 18 | Hardly any thing could resist this accuracy at which I was much impressed , though a bit alarmed at Griffin himself , who sat around on a stool amid the most dreadful carnage and what was later known as flak in order to observe the behaviour and results of his phenomenal piece of artillery . |
| 19 | He was more explicit in his meeting with a deputation from the Federation of British Industries at which he said that the ‘ secret ’ of controlling young workers was to ‘ fill their minds with something like humane letters , or elements of science ’ , then ‘ you get a humane outlook throughout the country and you get industrial relations more intelligently discussed ’ . |
| 20 | It even had a creaking dock at which we could tie up directly alongside . |
| 21 | They have reached the crucial point at which they can save because they have discharged other liabilities , but they will find such saving difficult . |
| 22 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |
| 23 | This included a stern order to attend a wine and cheese party in Kensington the following week at which I would be able to collect one of the following gifts ; an environmentally friendly tofu griddle and rotisserie ; postdated shopping vouchers for the Sock Shop , Tie Rack , Next , Laura Ashley , Habitat , Heals and the Conran Shop ; a holiday in Nepal ; or a year 's supply of irradiated fruit . |
| 24 | Cooke ( 1985 : 213 ) has defined ‘ regional ’ as ‘ a socio-spatial scale at which it is possible to place in focus the specificity of particular class formations … regional boundaries are largely coterminous with class practices ’ . |
| 25 | These accusations were denied by the government , the BSP , and the Soviet ambassador , Viktor Sharapov , who at a press conference on Aug. 26 said that his only contacts with the government and the BSP had been official ones at which he had delivered the statement of the State Committee for the State of Emergency ( the Soviet coup leaders ) and Gorbachev 's subsequent repudiation of it , and had discussed the forthcoming visit to Moscow of a Bulgarian economic mission . |
| 26 | That there are auxiliary impressions , Lotze points out , ‘ merely explains the possibility of distinguishing impressions made at different places ; but each impression must also be referred to the definite place at which it acts . |
| 27 | She sat down opposite him and propped her chin on her hands and gave him the look of limpid honesty at which she was particularly gifted . |
| 28 | There are charts and general guides available to help you decide but it is still difficult to pinpoint an exact weight at which you will be just right . |
| 29 | The big advantage we 've got over bands from the '60s and '70s is we can look back and see the exact point at which they all turned shit — and we 're not going to make the same mistake ! ’ |
| 30 | This was not easy , and in the first three places at which he enquired there was no room , they were all spoken for . |