Example sentences of "at which [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Peter Bourne recounts how Carlos Rafael Rodriguez , visiting Moscow in December 1962 to negotiate an economic agreement for the following year , had lengthy private meetings with Khrushchev and Mikoian , at which they expressed their surprise at Fidel 's reaction and gave assurance that there had been no intention to offend him . |
| 2 | Breakaway orthodox delegates to the founding conference held a new conference at which they formed the Russian Party of Communists . |
| 3 | Correspondingly , unpopular schools might expect to contract to a point at which they lose their viability . |
| 4 | It pushes the Tories back beyond the point at which they receive the support of a quarter of the electorate . |
| 5 | Moderator the erm overture which we passed into an act er in the last sentence of section three says the names of such children , that 's those children who have been admitted to erm communion as children , shall be admitted to the communion roll of the congregation when they have made public profession of their faith that is , when they reach the point at which they make that normal statement and the my understanding would be people whose names are on the communion roll . |
| 6 | Throughout , he is quiet and well mannered , but eventually he walks out on them , at which they make a big scene . |
| 7 | The price at which they bid for these bills determines the Treasury Bill rate . |
| 8 | The discount houses will want to repay the loans from the Bank quickly , and so will reduce the price at which they bid for the next issue of Treasury Bills , thus increasing the Treasury Bill rate . |
| 9 | Keighley has also been involved in the arrangements for the first conference of clinical research nurses , at which they hope formally to launch a national organisation ( still to be named ) . |
| 10 | The syndicate decides to hold a second Hopkin exhibition at which they hope to gain enough money to pay Grisby Flatpattern to disappear . |
| 11 | However , phonetically , the point at which they converge is further back than that characteristic of older middle-class speakers . |
| 12 | The configuration of continental margins and the angle at which they converge also affects significantly the nature of the orogenic belt that develops ( Fig. 3.20 ) . |
| 13 | Different people vary in the speed at which they take in what is said . |
| 14 | They may , perhaps , legitimately be so viewed when sexual satisfaction becomes totally dependent upon them to a point at which they take the place of the interpersonal psycho-genital stimuli to which most of us are subject ; or , as in one or two instances , when they are so grossly in departure from presently accepted norms that no correlation of them with accepted stimuli and practices is possible . |
| 15 | They may be dropping their oxygen carrying capacity of their blood to a level at which they pass out . |
| 16 | The complexity of the problems encountered in a particular task , project or strategy is a function of the variables involved — their number , their clarity or ambiguity , the rate at which they change , and , overall the extent to which they are distinct or tangled . |
| 17 | Their often very high and frequently untaxed earnings from gratuities at the large and lavish events at which they serve more than make up for the low basic rates they are paid , the absence of substantial fringe benefits and the existence of a short off-season in which they can not earn . |
| 18 | The difference remains when the age at which they die is taken into account . |
| 19 | But the stage at which they come to believe there is no way in which they can achieve the aim is the stage at which you need to re-examine the objective that the business has been set . |
| 20 | Neither the size of the responses nor the glucose concentration at which they began during stepped slow fall hypoglycaemia was different . |
| 21 | Indeed , at the seminar at which they announced their discovery , I remember that they called the first four sources to be found LGM 1–4 , LGM standing for " Little Green Men . " |
| 22 | In a modern society , it is — more or less — up to the individuals or couples to choose the age at which they marry or enter into one kind of conjugal union or another , to decide whether they should have a child or children or not , mow many children they want to have and at what intervals , and to opt for an age at which they want to cease childbearing , etc . |
| 23 | But in spite of everything perhaps it was just as well that none of the things they could see … none of the plump fish or chickens being toasted on skewers , none of the creamy breads , chapatis , nan , and parathas , none of the richly bubbling curries and glistening mounds of rice , which the skeletons ' scarlet rimmed eyes could see in their lenses and at which they glared for hour after hour that none of these things were available , for in their starved and debilitated condition it was very likely that a heavy curry would have killed them as dead as a cannon ball . |
| 24 | And they can not expect the spread between the rates at which they borrow and the rates at which they lend to widen further , helping to pay for these lingering credit problems . |
| 25 | The concentration of detergent , at which they form , is known as critical miscelle concentration ( CMC ) below which the detergent is of limited capacity . |
| 26 | It is for the discount houses to tell the Bank the rate at which they wish to sell — the Bank may accept or decline the offers . |
| 27 | Hanrott was made responsible for the first ‘ Council ’ visits , at which they saw some quite ‘ unsuitable environments ’ , information from these visits being fed at first into the subject boards rather than into the Council itself' . |
| 28 | He measured the rate at which they pecked the different models , and confirmed that the red spot on the tip of the bill acts as a signal to the chick to peck , in order to beg for food . |
| 29 | Yesterday Mr Olsen said the company had been approached by CITIC about the possible purchase of a holding back in November and the talks had reached a point at which they had had to be made public . |
| 30 | These erudite analyses and subtle experiments thus led back to precisely the point at which they had started . |