Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim'£s chances of winning are tremendous when he plays each point as though it was match point . ’ |
| 2 | This is point R in Fig. 5 and represents another point on the budget line . |
| 3 | Thomas ( 1923 , p. 38 ) nicely overstates this point in relation to his postulated needs ( or ‘ wishes ’ as he calls them ) : |
| 4 | This fractured pluralism , as I have described it , contains few points of common agreement . |
| 5 | Calling the first row the zig-zag row emphasises this point . |
| 6 | In a number of industries each firm 's product has some point of difference that differentiates it in some way from the products manufactured by other firms ; differentiation may be in terms of quality , design or even an intangible difference such as customers ' perceived image of the product . |
| 7 | However there is one stretch , substantially higher than the road , which has some points of interest . |
| 8 | The latter , incidentally , illustrates another point , that concerning " capture theory " which will be raised and dealt with at greater length later in the chapter ( see p. 7 ) . |
| 9 | Evidence that illustrates this point come from investigations aimed at the notion of ‘ learned safety ’ . |
| 10 | Job Start 50+ illustrates this point well ; a government pilot scheme designed for part-time work only , it allowed people to earn a maximum of just £2.27 an hour in 1989 . |
| 11 | Andy Marsh 's Zambezi article illustrates this point well . |
| 12 | The well known case of Lister v Romford Ice & Cold Storage Co Ltd illustrates this point . |
| 13 | Nothing illustrates this point so clearly as the fate of a paper published in 1874 by C. Nägeli entitled Verdrängung der Pflanzenformen durch ihre Mitbewerber . |
| 14 | The recent coverage of environmental issues illustrates this point . |
| 15 | An analogy with what happens in digital computers illustrates this point . |
| 16 | Hirsch illustrates this point well . |
| 17 | As often the case , Froissart had a story which illustrates this point . |
| 18 | The expression herring and common gulls illustrates this point well , because it is normal if common is taken to identify a particular species of gull ( in which case it is not a semantic constituent ) , but odd if it is taken to mean ‘ not rare ’ . |
| 19 | Table 9.7 illustrates this point . |
| 20 | The variable ( a ) ( see above ) illustrates this point ; the speech of a number of persons was transcribed in some phonetic detail before it became clear that tokens of the vowel in a certain range of environments were never front-raised , and seemed moreover to be implicationally ordered with respect to their tolerance of back-raising ( see J. Milroy 1981a for details ) . |
| 21 | Lavandera illustrates this point , using as an example the tendency for cocoliche speakers to avoid indirect speech , which in certain types of Spanish clause is an obligatory environment for the subjunctive . |
| 22 | The diagram below illustrates this point . |
| 23 | Data assembled by Chisholm ( 1983 ) for local authorities in England and Wales for the last inter-censal decade illustrates this point conclusively ( see Table 6. 1 ) . |
| 24 | The account given by an eminently respectable Bermondsey housewife to the compilers of the 1935 Survey of London Life and Labour illustrates this point well : |
| 25 | The complex history of the Polytechnic 's involvement with the internal planning exercise directed by the National Advisory Body for Public Sector Higher Education ( PSHE ) from 1984 — 85 illustrates this point clearly . |
| 26 | One simple example illustrates this point . |
| 27 | The relationship between central government and local government further illustrates this point where local government will have the power to make policy and spend public money but within limits set by Parliament and central government . |
| 28 | The following extract from the Fugue in C ♯ minor from Book I of the ‘ 48 ’ illustrates this point . |
| 29 | A simple example which illustrates this point is to choose polar coordinates ( r , θ ) to describe motion in a plane . |
| 30 | He illustrates this point using the life event of separation . |