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

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1 It is when understanding , compromise and trust in sexual matters are lacking in a marriage that the sexual problems which are at times inevitable assume their largest proportions .
2 The first option is the more likely , since it appears that it is not just one but several dispositions which are at issue .
3 The selection of the lead cases was aimed to ensure that the great majority of the very important points of law which are at issue in all cases are authoritatively decided , and it is hoped that , as a result , clear guidance will be given to the large number of remaining cases which are stayed , leading to settlements ( or at least the elimination of some issues common to the lead cases ) and the avoidance of a multiplicity of litigation .
4 It was further agreed that their structure , and the basis on which we conducted them , was a sensible way of covering all the questions which are at issue .
5 Neither does one have to invoke Marxism to take history seriously and to try to understand the various forces which are at work and the way in which certain classes , institutions and pressure groups have used power to maintain inequality .
6 Thirdly , there is a need for better appreciation of the complex dynamics which are at work in small task-focused groups , such as those which come together for case conferences , especially when anxiety about an individual old person is running high .
7 Again , those elements of the house-building industry , both firms and individuals , which are at present to an alarming extent drifting into jobbing and repair work on account of the difficulty of obtaining licences , will find their way back into the housing field , and the existing danger of skilled house-building teams being broken up and not replaced will be avoided .
8 Council officers are especially worried about the reviewers ' recommendation that the statutory criteria for selecting SSSIs — which are at present purely scientific — should take into account administration and finance .
9 So far buildings have been acquired as the result of the Bradford efforts which are at present undergoing alterations and improvements which will eventually accommodate about 20 handicapped people plus staff .
10 Gradually the places in the year book which are at present unfamiliar to me will acquire a flesh and blood reality .
11 Common endings of words ( for example -ed , -ing , -tion ) which are at present duplicated in the tree for words like walked , walking , shouted , shouting , can be grouped together .
12 That means looking to the mainstream history of the discipline , rather than to current alternatives , which are at present partial and incipient .
13 Second , even if the major private capitalist enterprises were nationalised this would not abolish the problem of allocating resources between the kind of ‘ infrastructural ’ provision , and social services , which are already within the public sector in Britain and those areas of commodity production which are at present the domain of ‘ private enterprise ’ .
14 The prospects may therefore be good for a long-term strategy which aims at both restricting the scale of most operating units and granting them a reasonable degree of operational autonomy in order to make participative democracy a feasible proposition , while developing further the economies of administration , co-ordination , etc. which are at present realised by large-scale enterprises .
15 The effective resolution would also impose many difficult policy questions , about moral rights to choose , for example , with reference to abortions and the best way to allocate scarce resources , for example , with regard to kidney machines , which are at present partly masked by professional discretion .
16 capital allowances — which I think he may want — it could have a damaging effect on the quality of investment decisions , which are at present made for good , sound , commercial reasons ?
17 The federal government of the United States of America embodies a separation of powers between the executive ( which is headed by a President elected for four years , at present a Republican ) , the legislative branch ( Congress , which comprises a Senate of 100 members and a House of Representatives of 435 members , both of which are at present controlled by the Democratic Party ) and the judicial branch ( headed by the Supreme Court ) .
18 What Mr seems to be directing is that the settlement should be directed to those areas which are at present have pleasant tree cover and things , which theoretically can assimilate a new settlement which in the context of the Vale of York , tend to be those areas which are th are of the better landscape quality .
19 Also associated with the Orpheus mosaic at Withington are geometric pavements , which feature interlaced circles ( mosaic F ) , chequers ( mosaic B ) , perspective boxes ( mosaic C ) , and relieved swastika meander ( mosaic E ) — all of which are at present at Newton St. Loe ( Rainey 1973 , pI .
20 The Trust intends to spend about £175,000 amalgamating services which are at present split between the Chest Hospital and Machynlleth Corris and District Hospital .
21 As Robert Paul Wolff pointed out in an acute critique of conventional pluralism , it is easier and more plausible to urge compromise when it is interests rather than principles which are at stake .
22 But it 's not just city centre churches which are at risk .
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