Example sentences of "which is at " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a good Scots which is at once distinctly literary and faithful to the speech of the city . |
| 2 | Kermode sees this change — which is at the heart of what I am writing about — as having radical implications for letters , comparable to such things as the advent , first of printing and then of cheap paper ; the bourgeoisie 's greater leisure for private reading ; and the abandonment by circulating libraries of the three-volume novel , which had been the favoured vehicle for fiction during much of the nineteenth century : Kermode exaggerates a little , I think ; nothing in the establishment of university English is as important as the innovations in culture and technology which established the book in its modern form . |
| 3 | ‘ I want to tell you fellas , if you are at risk ( from nuclear contamination ) it 's your semen and sperm which is at risk . ’ |
| 4 | His argument deploys the old jargon of authenticity , now combined with the jargon of otherness ; despite his Hegelian framework , Scruton deploys this jargon as an exalted metaphor which does little more than bestow a spurious profundity on a normative sexual politics which is at heart timid , conservative , and deeply ignorant . |
| 5 | Neither : let us say rather that what is most significant about such passages is the way so much is fantasized from the position of the woman ( including anal ecstasy and , elsewhere , Lawrence 's almost as notorious worship of the phallus ) , and in a voice which is at once blindingly heterosexist and desperately homoerotic . |
| 6 | It is a reply which is at once deferential and contemptuous , self-effacing and arrogant . |
| 7 | The exception is David Marquand 's splendid biography of Ramsay MacDonald , which is at its best when dealing with 1931 . |
| 8 | The first two tasks , though hideously difficult , were at least relatively straightforward ; the third posed the problem which is at the heart of Peter Dennis 's book : whose law was to be restored and what civilian authority should take over ? |
| 9 | Developments in Tanzania in the mid 1970s were , however , to end in the direct contradiction of this injunction , a contradiction which is at the heart of Tanzania 's tendency towards an authoritarian state . |
| 10 | There was a man born among these Jews who claimed to be , or to be the son of , or to be one with the something which is at once the awful haunter of Nature and the giver of the moral law . |
| 11 | The invitation is for the service only ( which is at 12 noon ) , since the numbers at the reception are limited by both space and budget . |
| 12 | The main events are at 12.25 ( women ) and 1.30 ( men ) in a day 's programme comprising 12 races , the first of which is at 11.05 . |
| 13 | Unwisely , as it turns out , the credits display the real thing , which is at least a dozen times better than this carelessly silly concoction . |
| 14 | But these are all secondary to the flow of talk , which is at times brilliant and , rather less often , impossibly pretentious . |
| 15 | It is their claim to unlimited authority which is at stake here . |
| 16 | The most recent and important example comes from the proposed Forest Bill of India which is at the time of writing about to come before Parliament . |
| 17 | And it 's not just your home which is at risk ; farm machinery , livestock , feedstuffs , chemicals and equipment are all highly valuable and must be protected from the criminal . |
| 18 | This looking towards God is therefore the life of contemplation , which is at the heart of the truly Christian life . |
| 19 | It is not only wildlife which is at stake . |
| 20 | Thus , a whole range of decisions would not be left merely to the instinct of the doctor , good though he or she may be , but would be set down in a form which is at the same time authoritative , yet flexible and able to change if circumstances demand . |
| 21 | It will be obvious to all , however , that this tidiness is an illusion , because its essence , which is at once its merit and its weakness , is its very indefiniteness and amenability to ad hoc decisions based on the ‘ justice ’ of the particular facts . |
| 22 | This is most easily done after the third cleavage which is at right angles to the first two , and so divides the embryo into four animal and four vegetal cells . |
| 23 | There are in almost all animals two main axes , the antero-posterior which defines the ‘ head ’ and ‘ tail ’ ends and the dorso-ventral axis which is at right angles to it . |
| 24 | It is perhaps that long-term perspective which is at the root of present-day concern over the nuclear arsenal held by the superpowers . |
| 25 | But to refer to Wladek as ‘ a typical representative of the culturally passive mass which constitutes in every civilised society the enormous majority of the population ’ is to do less than justice to a tale which is at times very lively indeed and which was surely not written by any ‘ passive ’ sort of person . |
| 26 | Britain has a whole new culture of public education to work out : new expectations , customs , relationships and attitudes more profound than the new vocabulary which is at present being learnt . |
| 27 | In the principal street , which is at the back of the locomotives ' building , there are six houses of three shops on the ground floor . |
| 28 | After all , Mnemosyne is , by Zeus , mother of the muses and goddess of Memory , which is at the heart of pretty well all states of mind . |
| 29 | Nuclear Metals says , however , that the behaviour of the alloys is ‘ controversial … we are not 100 per cent convinced that it is the titanium alloy itself which is at fault — it may be the environment , ’ Don King of Nuclear Metals told New Scientist . |
| 30 | Unfortunately , it is not simply the future of Henderson Island which is at stake . |