Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elio de Angelis was his team-mate and he garnered such points as a deeply disappointing Lotus offered , winding up with a single point . |
| 2 | All prisoners serving a year or more will be put on licence when released and supervised up to the three-quarter point of their sentence and , for some sex offenders until the end of their sentence ; |
| 3 | Over to the west , the allied fires petered out at the same point ; yet Thiercelin fancied he could hear the rumble of distant movement . |
| 4 | The ‘ victory ’ rally in Sheffield was picked out as a turning point in the party 's fortunes . |
| 5 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
| 6 | It is amazing how often you ( well I ) can be caught out on the very point you are trying to make . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , manufacturers are still not pushing the business benefits of technology to any great extent — some 80% of those questioned said that bidding vendors had never formally evaluated what they should invest in from a strategic point of view . |
| 8 | Hence there must be a facility for storing the cross- reference until it is required , and a system by which the editor is reminded that that cross- reference needs to be written in at the other point ( earlier or later in the text ) . |
| 9 | The basic characteristic of the H.T. is that the flowers are invariably double with so many petals — sometimes to their detriment in wet weather — that the centre becomes pushed up to a high point — in the classic shape that everybody likes to see . |
| 10 | If the pattern is facing the other way and the No.2 right-hand light is on , on the 580 , or the left-hand light on , on earlier models , then line the N1 came up with the left-hand point cam . |
| 11 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 12 | This leads on to a further point . |
| 13 | This leads on to the final point . |
| 14 | How are things going on from the other point of view ? |
| 15 | And secondly , and very much wrapped up in the same point with this , they 're also coy about the sort of people they 're looking for . |
| 16 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 17 | We kept spiralling up towards a high point on the ridge , and when we reached it there was a lodge , perched improbably like a ski-lift station . |
| 18 | In some cases , care must be taken not to put ideas into a respondent 's head early in an interview lest these are reflected back at a later point . |
| 19 | It was peaceful more than frenetic , a mirage of slow dawns and sunsets going back to the fluted point people : humbling . |
| 20 | going back to the same point again |
| 21 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 22 | In all cases consent goes up to a certain point only . |
| 23 | In a public library authority this can require all titles from all service points to be called in to a central point and their condition checked and compared . |
| 24 | ‘ It must have been blasted off at the weak point of the stalk , ’ the Environments Officer continued . |
| 25 | This point is proved along with the last point . |
| 26 | And I would n't say that we were being fleeced , I mean I , I think we 've always been fleeced up to a certain point but they were always making a loss in the past and |
| 27 | ‘ I keep coming back to the same point , John . |
| 28 | They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name . |
| 29 | A cautious opening in New York produced a further round of price-cutting in the afternoon and , with investors setting off early for the Easter break , the Footsie drifted in to a 2638.6 point close , down 1.6 on the day . |
| 30 | But what you 're actually going to find is that what they 've divorced themselves from is the assistance and the technical help that comes from the County Council , and whilst you may have your teachers trained up to a certain point you therefore have at that particular time you you have them fully trained , and then you say oh well I do n't need any training for the next couple of years so I can step back and save on that area . |