Example sentences of "which [pron] [verb] at " in BNC.

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1 The maxim on which I act at any moment is the personal rule which is guiding my behaviour — for Kant it is of the essence of voluntary action that there is such a maxim in every case .
2 Then came the delicious moment of the aperitivo , that sense of the whole city beginning to wind down towards lunch , which I took at any one of a dozen excellent and welcoming restaurants where I was sure to be hailed and called over to one table or another .
3 However , that leaves the galleries open to pressure , when they come to the Minister and make points such as that which I made at the beginning of my speech — saying , for instance , that last year the Tate gallery could buy only one work of art .
4 If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines :
5 By which I mean at least one out of every two issues .
6 The second matter which I mention at the outset is this .
7 I was surprised to find quite a few patches of snow near the summit , which I reached at about half past ten .
8 The first time I fished it I hooked a very big barbel which I estimated at 11lb to 12lb .
9 It is difficult to say how long this species lives in captivity , but I had an African Snakehead , which I acquired at a similar size to yours , and I kept him or her ( there are no external sex differences ) for 13 years .
10 The bedding which I observed at first hand in 1954 in the peasant community of Pul Eliya was nothing like as grand as the stereotype ; but , apart from some minor differences , it had all the same elements and for the most part they occurred in just the same sequence .
11 However , I shall return to the four themes which I identified at the beginning , and which have been threaded through the discussion .
12 Each society , of course , has to deal with many specific problems arising from its own culture and history , but there are also some general issues to be faced , and the two which seem to me still to be pre-eminent are those which I indicated at the beginning of this book : namely , industrialization and democracy .
13 This was due , no doubt , to the fact that though I motored further and further from the house , I continued to find myself in surroundings with which I had at least a passing acquaintance .
14 The two other officers were staring at me with a curiosity which I had at first thought similar to the curiosity I had found among the soldiers .
15 I collected a few birds on the way , among them a splendid Eagle which I killed at Perth .
16 These letters are the letters of a wonderful poet and that truth shines steady through the very shining and alternating feelings with which I look at them in so far as they concern me , that is in so far as they are mine .
17 I forwarded to him an estimate of the probable expence which I calculated at under £4000 with which sum I engaged to organize a party to keep the field for two years .
18 For guitars I just used the Jaguar and a Broadcaster-type thing made for , I think , Jerry Donahue , which I found at the studio .
19 I come to the hurdle which I confessed at the outset I might find difficult to clear : why collect first editions anyway , since the path is so littered with obstructions , difficulties and bibliographical rubbish , and the pilgrimage is often attended with so much expense ?
20 Above the ledge a steep crack leads apparently to the security of a deep recess , curving leftwards , which I flew at hoping to regain the sun .
21 Structures of support between mothers and daughters are subject to all the individual variations which I mentioned at the beginning of this discussion , and at a more collective level , ethnic and cultural variation is very important , with some cultural traditions placing a less strong emphasis on this bond than does white Anglo-Saxon culture .
22 From this lengthy account the balanced reciprocity which I mentioned at the beginning becomes very clear but some of you may think that the detail is excessive .
23 Though I do believe Alfieri is still important for the role he plays which I mentioned at the beginning as it is clever of Miller to incorporate the ‘ narrator ’ into the play in this way although it is not an original idea as Shakespeare used it with his characters ' soliloquies .
24 And this is the other aspect of Freud 's debt to Darwin which I mentioned at the beginning but said I would hold over for later .
25 I 've got the first issue which I bought at the away match at the Arse earlier on .
26 He lost his seat in the election of 1955 , and then completed his The Future of Socialism , which I read at Windsor .
27 to be honest because erm it 's and that I wo n't say that there 's a criticism of this particular project which I supported at the time but I think that in future we do need to plan our projects and and there are people in the in the town that are prepared to work , perhaps need a bit of organizing , we need to think about how that might happen , but we must n't first reaction go to professional or semiprofessional help .
28 This case is the first of the modern Court of Appeal authorities to which I referred at the beginning of this judgment .
29 What is important is the unequivocal , but in my respectful opinion wrong , statement of the law made by Viscount Dilhorne , at p. 632a ( to which I referred at the outset of my speech ) , that Parliament by omitting the words ‘ without the consent of the owner ’ from section 1(1) of the Act of 1968 ‘ has relieved the prosecution of the burden of establishing that the taking was without the owner 's consent . ’
30 Nevertheless , there seems to be a number of factors at play in the business that correlate very closely to the forces which I see at work in broader fields .
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