Example sentences of "at [pron] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Clearly Soviet oil was an attractive buy for the Cubans : Che Guevara stated that the landed price of Soviet crude was 33 per cent lower than the price at which the majors imported oil to Cuba from their Venezuelan subsidiaries , and the fact that it was a barter deal enabled the revolution to conserve its dwindling hard-currency reserves . |
| 2 | Governors are now required to produce annual reports and to organise parents ' meetings at which the reports and any other matters parents wish to raise may be discussed . |
| 3 | Because one did not know how accurately the clock had been ticking during the processes of weighing , one could not know precisely the times at which the movements of the shutter occurred between which the radiation was released . |
| 4 | The scrolled area shows any errors detected during the scan , together with the line numbers at which the errors occurred . |
| 5 | The position can be unwound once the two prices move together ( which they will , given this type of arbitrage ) by buying the shares and selling the futures , the profit coming from the discount at which the futures were originally bought ( minus transactions costs ) . |
| 6 | Although arrangements differed in detail from one place to another the usual practice was for the management to allow a preliminary meeting in works time at which the aims of the WEA could be explained and for those apprentices interested to stay behind to plan a course . |
| 7 | If it has been dormant since the end of the previous financial year and it is entitled in respect of its individual accounts to the exceptions conferred on a small company by section 246 ( or would be so entitled but for being a member of an ineligible group ) and it is not required to prepare group accounts for that year , the resolution is effective if passed at a general meeting at which the accounts for that year are to be laid . |
| 8 | One thing I 've learnt in the last half hour is the speed at which the rules of debate seem to be changing and it will not surprise you to hear that as Mr Allenby and Harrogate District Council have moved towards Professor Lock 's point of view , they have moved away from the Civic Society 's point of view . |
| 9 | This draws together large courtship parties , at which the females pick out the mates they prefer . |
| 10 | You can not only experiment with different feet positions and weighting but also with the angle at which the feet are placed across the board . |
| 11 | The rates at which the footprints disappeared varied between the different binding sites . |
| 12 | That is the point at which the services will be delivered . |
| 13 | This attitude is reflected by the Pasadena Consultation at which the delegates agreed ‘ that in many situations a homogeneous unit church can be a legitimate and authentic church . |
| 14 | The trade union Solidarity held a major national conference at Gdansk on April 19-25 , at which the delegates discussed the growing need for policy development in the light of the country 's rapidly changing political and economic character . |
| 15 | Close to the mill was the Severn Engineering Works , at which the boilers and apparatus for making paper from wood were manufactured . |
| 16 | The stage at which the peppercorns are harvested from the vine decides their colour . |
| 17 | These are slower-growing species than the annuals and will not be productive until the swidden stage is complete and in many cases not until the subsequent fallow is well established ; the different ages at which the perennials mature also facilitates a phased harvest so that the fallow stage is not unproductive . |
| 18 | Furthermore , when dates are suggested for changes in these forms , they are usually given , without comment , as the dates at which the changes took place in this standard variety or its unilinear precursor , and not the dates at which they might have taken place in some other variety . |
| 19 | Despite this , however , they are then usually cited as the dates at which the changes took place ‘ in English ’ . |
| 20 | The central committee subsequently held a two-day plenum , on Oct. 21-22 , at which the changes to the political system , the crisis in socialism and the role of pluralism were discussed . |
| 21 | If two such solutions were displayed as in Fig. 24.2(b) , the overall impression given would be the same ; however , sufficiently long after initiation , the times at which the changes of level occurred in the two solutions would be totally uncorrelated . |
| 22 | The factors were the scale of the burglary , the evident planning , the speed at which the goods arrived and the quantity of goods . |
| 23 | In this case the court gave a further reason why the false statement was not caught by section 14 , namely that it related to the price at which the goods were offered for supply and section 14 did not cover false statements about prices . |
| 24 | The speed with which this will occur depends primarily upon the speed at which the prices of conventional fuels rise . |
| 25 | In the diagram , there are three ‘ junctions ’ at which the lines describing the motion of the particles split or join . |
| 26 | Evolution was thus to be portrayed as an ever-branching tree , and a good classification system would be based on a correct identification of the crucial points at which the branchings took place . |
| 27 | Along with the certain suggestion I enclosed the casket design and a typed selection of quotes from my letters approving the idea of ‘ over-the-counter coffins ’ and giving the address at which the originals could be inspected , in the time-honoured manner with unsolicited testimonials . |
| 28 | But the best public art ( as Venice proves ) is architectural art , the enrichment of buildings at which the Victorians excelled rather than extraneous pieces of sculpture and other items dotted around the streets . |
| 29 | A committee meeting of one large co-operative was attended by the author at which the managers explained the proposed introduction in 1986 of a computer link-up available to all members . |
| 30 | Answer guide : Although the students have met the realization principle before it is important that the treatment of this is highlighted in the discussion which should revolve around the question of the point at which the earnings process is substantially complete . |