Example sentences of "[noun] at which a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The highest speed at which a stress can be transmitted through any substance is usually the speed of sound in that substance . |
| 2 | He hit V1 ( the speed at which a takeoff can not be aborted ) at 97 knots and pulled the stick back for rotation at 106 knots . |
| 3 | This increases the speed at which a rug can be woven but results in its being less compact and durable . |
| 4 | There must be an ultimate limit to the speed at which a cheetah or a gazelle can run , a limit imposed by the laws of physics . |
| 5 | The first of these was the free speed at which a subject chose to drive on an unobstructed section of road . |
| 6 | It is of course well-known that a customer 's overall impression of a hotel often depends on small details such as the speed at which a light bulb is replaced or a television repaired . |
| 7 | For any given orbit , there is only one speed at which a satellite can travel and remain in that orbit . |
| 8 | The speed at which an awareness of national fashions in architecture grew varied from one area to another . |
| 9 | In the case of revenue recognition , there are basically two steps at which a bookkeeping entry might be generated : when the goods sold have been delivered and an invoice has been issued ; and when the goods sold have been delivered and an invoice has been paid The complete cycle would be as follows : |
| 10 | Consequently , if best practicable means are taken to limit the discharge of such gases to levels recommended by the Health and Safety Executive , odour emission will be correspondingly reduced and even totally removed where the concentration at which a particular odour is perceived , i.e. its odour threshold detection value , exceeds the recommended emission level for that particular substance . |
| 11 | I once attended a talk at which a group of people with learning difficulties described how they hated being called ‘ mentally handicapped ’ . |
| 12 | He gave parties at which a great deal of champagne was consumed ; he attended other parties ; he entertained young women to luncheon-parties in his rooms — women whose fashionable faces Mr Bullins recognised from society magazines such as the Tatler , which formed his own favourite bedtime reading . |
| 13 | His speech is the latest in a series which will run up to the Scottish party conference in May at which a booklet containing all his speeches will be on sale to the party faithful . |
| 14 | This is the moment at which a major diversion is necessary . |
| 15 | So the place at which a person stops doubting is a matter of his private preference and with many people this is entirely arbitrary . |
| 16 | Often co-operating with reputable frying equipment manufacturers and suppliers , they test everything from the critical point at which a food product fries best , to the recovery times for oil temperatures . |
| 17 | When it is , it is exercised throughout the chain of command and not just the point at which a problem becomes apparent . |
| 18 | The point at which a group 's needs and requests become institutionalised determines how far the community group is part of civil society and therefore lying outside the rubric of the state , and how far it is part of the state apparatus . |
| 19 | The arrow indicates the point at which a cAMP-agonist cocktail was added . |
| 20 | The watershed mark is thought to be the point at which a user could get hold of such a board at a couple of hundred dollars or more less than the cost of buying a complete PC solution . |
| 21 | The point at which a user comes to the decision to ‘ kick the habit ’ is determined by a variety of factors : personal , social and environmental . |
| 22 | Cash accounting , accruals accounting and commitment accounting are distinguished from each other by the point in time when expenses and revenues are recognized in the accounts , i.e. the point at which a given transaction generates a bookkeeping entry . |
| 23 | There is an overload of sounds , of images , of words to the point at which a number of these cultural goods can not be found meanings that can be attached to them ( Ratcliff 1985 ) . |
| 24 | One might also attempt to establish a relationship between intensity and exposure at the point at which a pixel is just seen , and use this to obtain intensity readings . |
| 25 | As Marslen-Wilson ( 1986 ) has pointed out , the concept of a recognition point , i.e. the point at which a word becomes discriminable within the language system , can not be determined for a word in isolation . |
| 26 | The point at which a minuet is no longer a minuet , but becomes a waltz or scherzo , is ultimately indefinable . |
| 27 | The point at which a useful and necessary practice is accorded the status of a constitutional convention is not clear . |
| 28 | It is , however , quite easy to pass the point at which an organisation of this sort feels that it can afford a central staff and from that point onwards the central staff becomes essential and the field staff end by servicing its needs and growth . |
| 29 | Degrees in pharmacy were approved to the point at which an article in the Times Educational Supplement in 1971 could comment : |
| 30 | To avoid this kind of error , survival analysis was truncated at week 51 , the point at which an adequate number ( n>10 ) of patients were still present . |