Example sentences of "which were at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first hurdle to be overcome was the development of a joint US/New Zealand resolution which would meet not only the concerns of the South Pacific nations which were at the forefront of the initiative , but also would not alienate the US , whose powerful political muscle would be required to gain the necessary support . |
| 2 | Two films gave him temporary solvency and cast him straight into the seedier end of the youth market , the biker movies which were at the beginning of a craze that would last four or five years . |
| 3 | It was the fancy of the good Doctor to bring together , from time to time , a considerable number of men whose lives were devoted to the advancement of science , and to entertain them , not for a day merely , but for several days , so that they might discuss together , without hurry or excitement , those matters of practical and theoretical science which were at the moment engaging the attention of the scientific world . |
| 4 | About 15,000 feet presumably someone called ‘ Tally Ho ! ’ because I suddenly saw three Ju88s , which were at the same height , slightly to my left , range about 1,000 yards , and heading away from Malta . |
| 5 | Perhaps more serious was the failure to understand , or accept , bureaucratic mores which were at the centre of the system . |
| 6 | Progress or improvement is no more likely than decline : he now repeatedly disowns any necessary historical logic of progress ; its incarnations will always , strictly speaking , be accidental ones in relation to the objectives which were at the origin of praxis : |
| 7 | The structural changes which were at the heart of Big Bang necessitated a radical overhaul of the existing regulatory framework . |
| 8 | Only when the critic has access to all the sources which were at the disposal of the editor can his findings be absolutely certain . |
| 9 | The implication of the study was that assisted areas are not of themselves ‘ uneconomic places ’ ; the rate of closure in assisted areas was higher simply because they had attracted investment in expanding products in the 1960s which were at the stage of losing markets twenty years later . |
| 10 | The wonderful thing about the USPGA Tour 's year-ending statistics is that a quick perusal leaves you with a crystal- clear picture of what transpired in the previous year : Which players improved the most ; which were at the top of their games ; who won what and where , and when , and how . |
| 11 | However , we are concerned about the distinct lack of any clear recognition that the principles of environmental sustainability , which were at the heart of the White Paper , should underpin the future development of industry , commerce and small businesses . |
| 12 | They are also inextricably bound up with evaluations which were at the time extremely unfashionable : not so much the depreciation of Euripides , who , although the most admired of the tragic poets in later antiquity , hardly approached that popularity again until the twentieth century ( and who , in any case , had been subjected to a famous critique in the lectures of A. W. Schlegel as long ago as 1808 ) ; rather , the elevation of " primitive " Aeschylus above even Sophocles , and the disrespect shown towards Socrates and the " divine " Plato . |
| 13 | It was quite a long walk to the stables , which were at the back of the house . |
| 14 | Not only would it be impossible to identify the goods which were at the buyer 's risk but also it would be impossible to identify any goods which were pro rata at his risk . |