Example sentences of "the point when " in BNC.
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| 1 | What 's the point when you wo n't be here ? ’ |
| 2 | Sandhurst , which has performed dreadfully under Tootal 's control , made a £2m loss up to the point when WH Smith was persuaded to buy it , and three out of the four ongoing Tootal businesses showed disappointing results . |
| 3 | From the point when the Government 's high interest rate policies start taking effect to the point when companies start calling in the receiver , there tends to be quite a delay — liquidity problems do not suddenly emerge unless something dramatically goes wrong . |
| 4 | From the point when the Government 's high interest rate policies start taking effect to the point when companies start calling in the receiver , there tends to be quite a delay — liquidity problems do not suddenly emerge unless something dramatically goes wrong . |
| 5 | The planning officer is an employee of the council who handles the application up to the point when it is put to the planning committee , made up of elected councillors , for a decision . |
| 6 | Sir : While agreeing with much of what Jonathan Glancey say in his article on ‘ A-road ’ architecture ( 4 October ) , I think he misses the point when he says that no one cares about it . |
| 7 | The narrator dreams of how Charlie 's tales of his reincarnations will be spread , as ‘ the finest story in the world ’ until the point when , ‘ Every Orientalist in Europe would patronize it discursively with Sanskrit and Pali texts . ’ |
| 8 | It was an exciting time , in retrospect a brief golden age between the end of colonial rule and the point when the repressiveness of the Kanu regime grew so blatant that disillusion , new East African writer would emerge , following in the footsteps of my already famous colleague , who then called himself James Ngugi . |
| 9 | At the point when he began to enjoy himself , he was sent off to go through it all again in Australia , in order that the Commonwealth could be seen to have played some part in his education . |
| 10 | That is the point when new life begins . |
| 11 | Eleanor was nearly twice the age he felt he deserved , and it had been his ambition for a long time to have a girl just at the point when it became legal . |
| 12 | After the stories of the last few chapters , since the point when the promises were first given , our confidence in Abraham 's reliability has been shaken nearly to pieces . |
| 13 | After the events of chapter 26 he brings us to the time when Isaac is nearing death , and to the point when the blessing of the eldest son must be given . |
| 14 | That was the point when Zambia turned off completely , abandoning hir body to whatever its new job demanded of it . |
| 15 | When I 'm getting ready for a party — you know , you have a bath some time in the early afternoon or evening , you work out what to wear , you lay the things out on the bed that you vaguely know you look nice in , you roughly know what make-up suits you … well , that 's the point when I start thinking about my leg , and whether it will show . |
| 16 | His rustiness showed at the point when he was asked to accelerate . |
| 17 | The irony is that the skins in trying to be ‘ authentic ’ have ended up reviving an idea of working class culture which is frozen at precisely the point when a ‘ real ’ , ‘ authentic ’ working class identity was being positively eaten away from outside . |
| 18 | It all comes down to who holds the purse strings , and at the point when it comes down to that level , something has gone wrong . |
| 19 | If animals in the sea have fared well , all considered , up to the point when they are harvested , and if they are harvested humanely , then we do nothing wrong when we kill them . |
| 20 | I imagined the whole business of running to the wire , and setting up the ladder a thousand times , but I could never get beyond the point when I set my foot on the bottom rung . |
| 21 | At first interview she said the strain of looking after her mother-in-law was considerable , that it was putting a strain on her marriage in that she and her husband were always quarrelling these days , and that she had got to the point when ‘ I feel I ca n't go on any longer ’ . |
| 22 | At the point when a person has no more pressing desires and needs and he is contented and feels fulfilled , then he is ready for the most wonderful experiences and the real joy of life . |
| 23 | Those before 1538 ( the point when Thomas Cromwell legislated for parish registers ) , those after 1801 ( when official censuses began ) , and those between the two dates mentioned . |
| 24 | True , extreme poverty and hardship had driven him to the point when suicide must have seemed preferable to the life he was leading . |
| 25 | ‘ And yet when you were sick and hungry , wanderin' through the streets , you had reached the point when you thought life was not worth livin' . |
| 26 | At the point when the puppets disappeared behind the doors , there was a crash of music . |
| 27 | If all members of the human race had arrived roughly at the same time at the point when the need for a ‘ god ’ had started to influence human behaviour , it may well have been that the existence of a disastrous diversity of ‘ gods ’ , all of whom according to their worshippers conferred privileges , would never have become established . |
| 28 | It is interesting to observe that just at the point when the old sources of clerical recruitment , the married clergy , were taking to celibacy , the supply of clergy did not dry up , it multiplied exceedingly . |
| 29 | If you do n't , your emotional strength will gradually be sapped , to the point when you will no longer be able to give her the support she requires , and the whole arrangement may collapse around you . |
| 30 | So it just got to the point when he was getting real busy and I did n't want to put my fate in someone else 's hands — even though my way it was a much slower progression . |