Example sentences of "[noun] at which [adj] " in BNC.

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1 A crucial factor upon which it will depend is the speed at which management-employee buy-out teams can mount bids .
2 But a lot depends on the state of Gullit 's knee and the speed at which other injury problems are solved .
3 In an effort to cut costs , Nissan will reduce the breathtaking speed at which new models are rushed on to the market .
4 There has been much discussion of the need to increase the speed at which new products are brought to the marketplace and a ‘ rugby team ’ in contrast to a ‘ relay ’ approach to project management has been suggested as a way of making faster progress ( Takeuchi and Nonaka , 1986 ) .
5 This is made more difficult by the speed at which new stores are now built .
6 ‘ The speed at which Hawaiian music spread was really something .
7 The speed at which direct marketers such as Dell can move is unparalleled , thanks to their knowledge of the customers ' wants and needs , and has resulted in the development of a whole class of computer-literate users .
8 In recent years psychiatrists in Scotland have peered over the border , somewhat bemused by the speed at which psychiatric long stay beds have been emptied in England .
9 He was however er reasonably clear as to the speed at which local authorities tend to deal with these matters , he said that it always takes a long time and getting any answer out of the local authority might well take somewhere between six months and up to two years , he thought that perhaps eighteen months was a reasonable guess before he would actually manage to get somebody if Paul were to move as er , it maybe well occur to here or a different local authority then of course the application would just go back to square one and that would lead to more delay .
10 The glucose concentration at which noticeable slowing first occurred was 2.8 ( 0.2 ) for human insulin and 2.7 ( 0.1 ) mmol/l for porcine insulin ( 95% confidence interval -0.3 to 0.2 ; p=0.58 ) .
11 AFORMER council youth leader known as the general was jailed for 10 years yesterday after organising three acid house parties at which hard drugs were openly available .
12 The wedding took place at St Nicholas Parish Church , Hillington , on 11th May at which fellow designer Roger McDowell was an Usher .
13 In cooperation with local branches of the ILP , the trades council and Plebs League , a series of weekly classes on Marxism was held at Stratford at which average attendance was over 80 ( Bush 1978 p 128 ) .
14 I remember with horror a meeting in our village hall at which boy-scoutish enthusiasm was shown for the knot-tying , camp-fire , make-do-and-mend fun to be had out of getting things going again after the bomb .
15 Further Commonwealth talks were held in London in late December at which various parallel services were agreed to link Britain with India , Australia , and New Zealand ( by BOAC and QANTAS ) , and with South Africa ( BOAC and South African Airways ) .
16 Society would like to expand output up to the competitive point B at which social marginal benefit and social marginal cost are equal .
17 At precisely the same moment at which central government concerns to reduce spending on the welfare state became dominant , it became more difficult to ensure that local authorities would do what was required .
18 Few would venture to assert the precise moment at which Scotch Whisky was first distilled .
19 There was no bus-stop as such ; there was no need : everyone in the area knew this was the place at which public transport put down and picked up .
20 By charting in fixed and variable costs , and then showing revenue , it is possible to see the point at which total revenue equates with total costs ie the break-even point .
21 Can you identify th that the point at which worrying about food , we 've all agreed we should n't be , but there it is we do , er pitches you into eating disorder and er I know ca , is is there preventive action to be taken apart from changing society completely ?
22 But we need to decide the level at which we will set the core curriculum , the point at which individual interpretation begins .
23 This is the point at which non-academic come to take precedence over academic criteria .
24 It is in fact a moot point whether one would expect to be able to classify all flows as either turbulent or non-turbulent — or , equivalently , whether during transition to turbulence one should be able to designate the point at which turbulent motion begins .
25 They 've had the good sense to include the little-aired ‘ Think About The Future ’ mix of the Mondays ' ‘ WFL ’ , but should be questioned about the inclusion of the terminally tacky Soup Dragons ' ‘ I 'm Free ’ , the success of which marked the point at which cynical goons jumped the wagon and things went sour .
26 They 've had the good sense to include the little-aired ‘ Think About The Future ’ mix of the Mondays ' ‘ WFL ’ , but should be questioned about the inclusion of the terminally tacky Soup Dragons ' ‘ I 'm Free ’ , the success of which marked the point at which cynical goons jumped the wagon and things went sour .
27 And Lucy , who could spot the point at which casual sentiment tipped over into bullshit , said , ‘ Yeah .
28 But there comes a point at which audio-visual presentations take over from being an aid to the speaker and become an end in themselves .
29 This is another point at which philosophical treatments of indexicals offer us no help .
30 This is the true point at which critical and fictional writing converge : where the strategies of de Man 's argument become those of the third person omniscient narrator .
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