Example sentences of "at which it be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rate at which it uses energy , it 's the rate at which it 's using the energy . |
| 2 | The despair is the fact that publishers feel they can no longer sell hardback fiction and biography , because of the very high price at which it 's published . |
| 3 | The difficulty was this : he wanted to increase the elevation to creep forward over those last 300 yards ( he did not dare exceed the two-pound charge ) but , as every gunner knows , increasing the elevation beyond five degrees can be a risky business ; it is not the great number of rounds that destroys a cannon but the high elevation at which it is fired . |
| 4 | If the product is an innovation within the marketplace , the following features of the product itself will influence the rate at which it is adopted : |
| 5 | However , the angle at which it is applied makes it very risky from the point of view of defending yourself . |
| 6 | Although oceanic crust is consumed at destructive plate margins at very nearly the same rate at which it is created at constructive plate margins , a small proportion of mantle material — perhaps only a few per cent — is involved in the generation of andesite magmas at destructive plate margins , and contributes to the volcanic rocks erupted at the surface . |
| 7 | Finally , if there exists a finite supply of an exhaustible , non-renewable natural resource , then the rate at which it is depleted affects the rate of growth of the economy ; but the rate at which it is exhausted depends on ( and influences ) the rate of interest . |
| 8 | Speech that might be regarded as insulting because it attacks the cherished views and beliefs of the audience at which it is directed is in particular jeopardy from this section . |
| 9 | It is important that the explanatory statement should remain accurate at the time at which it is voted upon at the court-ordered meeting . |
| 10 | The nature of the curriculum will need to reflect its general aims , its content and the level at which it is pitched . |
| 11 | For many , such a leaflet will be redundant as they have already passed the level at which it is pitched . |
| 12 | Finally , if there exists a finite supply of an exhaustible , non-renewable natural resource , then the rate at which it is depleted affects the rate of growth of the economy ; but the rate at which it is exhausted depends on ( and influences ) the rate of interest . |
| 13 | Nowadays , between ten and twenty-five times as much penicillin would need to be given routinely with the addition of another drug , probenecid , which helps to maintain high blood- and tissue levels of the antibiotic by reducing the rate at which it is eliminated by the kidneys , and even then there is no guarantee of success . |
| 14 | Provision is made for deferred taxation only to the extent that it is probable that the tax will become payable , and is at the rate at which it is estimated that the tax will be paid . |
| 15 | I also believe that the size of it and the rate at which it is growing indicates the use of the central organising function of the state ( which is one characteristic of a social service ) . |
| 16 | ‘ a motor vehicle , namely a … to which section 47 of the Road Traffic Act 1988 applied and ’ Section 47 applies to all motor vehicles first used more than three years before the time at which it is proved to have been actually used on the road for the purpose of the present offence . |
| 17 | A consequence of the renormalization procedure is that the effective coupling constant of the theory depends on the energy at which it is measured and decreases to zero at very high energies . |
| 18 | Again , however , a definition of modulus whether secant or tangent , together with the strain at which it is measured , needs to be made for comparison between the results of different workers . |
| 19 | The sombre threat of the cannon is contrasted with the distant view of buildings at which it is aimed , its potential destructiveness negated by the stasis of the rigidly controlled composition . |
| 20 | SSAP9 states that net realisable value is the amount at which it is expected that items of stock can be disposed of without creating either profit or loss in the year of sale , i.e. the estimated proceeds of sale less all further costs to completion and less all costs to be incurred in marketing , selling and distributing directly related to the items in question . |
| 21 | What is more difficult to predict into the middle of the next century is the proportion of the total population that this older group will constitute , because that depends upon the birth-rate , and the latter , if past experience is anything to go on , shifts unpredictably with transient social circumstances — such as the level of unemployment or whether or not there is a war — as well as with unstable social attitudes to child-bearing and the age at which it is thought suitable for women to bear children . |
| 22 | Any contracts won on an exclusive basis could affect the price at which it is offered for sale . |
| 23 | The Rev E P Tompson was the first Chairman of its Executive Committee and in that capacity led the work forward to the point at which it was accepted as the youth club arm of Scripture Union , and a member of the SU Council assumed the chair . |
| 24 | A meeting of the workers was called in the locker room by the shop steward at which it was decided that no one would return to the contaminated area . |
| 25 | The fallout was precipitated by an ACE members meet last Friday 24th , at which it was decided to de-emphasise the whole Intel side of the equation — at Intel 's own instigation it now appears ( see feature ) . |
| 26 | Although he was a member of the supreme council of the IRB , and is supposed to have been present at a meeting in September 1914 at which it was decided to stage a rebellion against British rule in Ireland , he played no role in planning the Easter rising of 1916 . |
| 27 | Delegates representing miners in most Soviet coalfields held a week-long congress in mid-June in the Ukrainian city of Donetsk , at which it was decided in principle to set up an independent miners ' union . |
| 28 | Green Realignment , a splinter group from the British Green Party , has held its inaugural conference , at which it was decided that the group would aim to steer a middle course between acting as a political party and as a pressure group . |
| 29 | The occasion of this denunciation was the annual meeting in Venice this October of the twenty international private societies for the safeguarding of the city , at which it was announced that they , on the other hand , had spent £750,000 of privately raised money . |
| 30 | In December the State Council held a national planning conference at which it was announced that there would be no change in the rural household contract system , the enterprise contract system , the factory director responsibility system , the development of the private and collective sectors , local government financial autonomy , or special policies for Special Economic Zones and coastal regions . |