Example sentences of "at a point " in BNC.
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| 1 | The important British companies , from Korda 's London Films to Goldcrest , have attracted capital at a point where they seemed to understand the economic need to balance Hollywood extravagance with a strong dose of parsimony , but all have ended up committing suicide by spending huge sums of money on attempts to emulate Hollywood . |
| 2 | He even forged a plan for growing cress pubic hair at a point in the canvas . |
| 3 | Three lines come together at a point . |
| 4 | One possible hypothesis — in fact the correct one — is that three surfaces meet at a point projecting towards the observer . |
| 5 | ‘ Here , ’ he said firmly , pointing with his indelible pencil at a point mid-way between Newfoundland and Ireland . |
| 6 | This was conveniently situated , being fifty miles from London and on the railway junction between Oxford and Cambridge — at a point ( as Andrew Hodge , biographer of Alan Turing , one of B.P. 's genius-mathematicians , puts it ) which was near the intellectual centre of England . |
| 7 | Furthermore , simple measurements of sediment at a point represent only the net result of all the processes going on upstream . |
| 8 | Narrative identification … is being rejected … at a point in time when gays can claim they still have not had it . |
| 9 | We were now at a point of safety , half a mile from the village of El Ouata , so I was allowed access to supplies in the Land Rover . |
| 10 | It may be that in rivers there are times when two or even more shoals rendezvous at a point along a shared beat and pass each other — whether travelling in the same direction or not — by swimming over the top of whoever has arrived first . |
| 11 | Children who received punishment as they reached for the attractive toy showed greater resistance to temptation than children punished just after they had picked it up or at a point several seconds later . |
| 12 | I was at a point of crisis , lost , paralysed in the midst of a dense fog . |
| 13 | A lone grave , the resting-place of one who had died at sea , lay at a point of land under the shelter of a rugged knoll : the grassy mound was decked with a cross of white stones , and at either end an unhewn rock was placed to mark the spot as sacred ; and on the taller stone was a square patch whereon the remains of an inscription that bore a roughly-drawn cross and an anchor , and the fact J. M ‘ L. died at sea — all else defaced . |
| 14 | HMI pointed out that the arrangements for choice meant that by the mid-point of the third year , some youngsters had decided to discontinue study of a particular subject — at a point only three-fifths of the way through what was presumably a coherently planned five-year course . |
| 15 | Instruction should be given at a point of high motivation , as for example when the student wants to obtain information in connection with a particular project . |
| 16 | It is extremely important to provide education at a point when the user experiences motivation . |
| 17 | Instruction in methods for finding information is most likely to be successful if provided at a point when students are working on a non-library project or course which requires a literature search . |
| 18 | The methods and media for library user education should preferably involve the active participation of the student , at a point where he/she feels motivation to use the library . |
| 19 | Thomas Albert Biggs , a born-deaf man employed as a coachman at Bristol , was out on bail on 13 charges of bicycle theft on 3rd June 1905 when he came upon a drama in the River Avon at a point where the river was over twenty feet deep and dangerous . |
| 20 | Alexander stared at a point above Corbett 's head . |
| 21 | The support given to Vera Coppard and her family by the Quakers came at a point when the Jewish organisations in Berlin and Vienna were reduced almost to the point of impotence . |
| 22 | Anyone trying to escape undetected from the house , and heading for the village , would have to emerge from his cover at a point approximately half-way up the drive , or attempt to climb a very high wall . |
| 23 | Pinch points or gateways may be formed by the placement of vertical elements such as trees at a point where the carriageway is artificially narrowed ( Figure 5.8 ) . |
| 24 | The Ardre starts life in the Montagne de Reims , just west of the N51 , at a point roughly half-way between Reims and Épernay . |
| 25 | It stands at a point where firm ground lies close to the river Derwent , and from olden times has been the site of an important river crossing , first by ferry , later by bridge . |
| 26 | At a point on the coast called Sand-le-Mere is a small area of dune which has always been a danger point from incursion from the sea . |
| 27 | It is caught by a hook on the bobbin case carrier at a point just above the eye of the needle when on its upward stroke . |
| 28 | HAVING REACHED the point of flying your model around in circuits , rather like a fixed-wing model , you will sooner or later-probably sooner-arrive at a point where you are unsure of the model 's exact position or attitude . |
| 29 | Even then Dean was at a point most players would never dream of reaching . |
| 30 | A going concern qualification on a company 's financial statements is , in effect , an assertion made at a point in time about the distribution of future cash flows associated with the bundle of assets that comprise that company . |