Example sentences of "at which it be " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 The rate at which it uses energy , it 's the rate at which it 's using the energy .
3 But erm power is the rate at which it 's being used up .
4 So the horsepower is n't actually telling you how much energy in total but the rate at which it 's being used up .
5 It 's important for most people in most circumstances , but the level at which it 's important does depend very much on the circumstances .
6 However , the angle at which it is applied makes it very risky from the point of view of defending yourself .
7 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 :
8 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 ) .
9 Any contracts won on an exclusive basis could affect the price at which it is offered for sale .
10 You do not seem to appreciate that the point at which Soul is stretched the furthest , globally , is the point at which it is weakest .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 The DHA merely decides the level at which it is prepared to fund its surgical unit .
14 H. B. Barlow and J. D. Mollon , Cambridge UP £30 , pbk £ 12 — 50 ) is of wider interest than the medical field at which it is primarily aimed .
15 In accordance with paragraph 25 of the [ draft ] FRS the finance costs will be allocated to periods at a constant rate on the carrying amount , with the result that the carrying amount of the bond immediately prior to redemption will equate to the amount at which it is to be redeemed .
16 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 .
17 ‘ 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 In order to store a piece of information , it is placed in the SDR ; the address at which it is to be stored is placed in the SAR , and the control unit of the computer sends a ‘ write ’ signal to the store .
21 Cooke ( 1985 : 213 ) has defined ‘ regional ’ as ‘ a socio-spatial scale at which it is possible to place in focus the specificity of particular class formations … regional boundaries are largely coterminous with class practices ’ .
22 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 .
23 The nature of the curriculum will need to reflect its general aims , its content and the level at which it is pitched .
24 The judicial or administrative authority may also refuse to order the return of the child if it finds that the child objects to being returned and has attained the age and degree of maturity at which it is appropriate to take account of its views .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 For many , such a leaflet will be redundant as they have already passed the level at which it is pitched .
28 The clerk is required to make the application available for inspection during normal office hours by members of the public from the date of lodging until the first day of the meeting at which it is to be considered ( subs .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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