Example sentences of "at the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the church 's clerics still took offence , particularly at the point that local people should be encouraged to take an interest in the schools by having some financial responsibility for them through local government . |
| 2 | In nightly theatrical TV rituals of social order and chaos , a stream of hero-policemen stand at the symbolic crossroads between peace and mayhem , and the detective and the chief officer now operate at the point where once the church and its priests declaimed on categories of good and evil and the resulting binary codes they produce . |
| 3 | Said Leonard , at the point of disclosure ( ‘ After The Sabbath Prayers ’ , The Spice-Box Of Earth , p10 ) : |
| 4 | It also reduced friction at the point of contact . |
| 5 | The conference approved the Economic Equality policy review which proposes : Ending tax on childcare ; Introducing a minimum wage starting at half of average male earnings ( £2.80 an hour ) , rising to two-thirds the average ; Income tax levels of no higher than 50 per cent at the top , down to less than 20 per cent at the bottom ; ‘ A significant and generous increase in child benefit over the lifetime of the Parliament ’ ; To tax gifts and inheritance at the point of receipt ; To crack down on tax loopholes ; Raise pensions immediately by £5 for single people and £8 for couples ; To introduce a new disability benefit ; To simplify income support rules ; To keep mortgage interest tax relief ‘ at a single rate equivalent to the basic rate relief which we inherit ’ . |
| 6 | At the point of full divergence , Britain could call on other EMS central banks to hold the pound within its agreed trading limits . |
| 7 | It was in the shape of a V with the entrance at the point of the V. We covered both trenches with large pieces of wood scrounged from the back garden of Brigade H.Q On top of the wood were placed thick pieces of turf which acted as very good camouflage . |
| 8 | Requisition of grain at the point of a gun during War Communism had proved a novel experience for the peasantry , but by 1922 that had been replaced by slightly more civilized methods . |
| 9 | But camp comes to life around that recognition ; it is situated at the point of emergence of the artificial from the real , culture from nature — or rather when and where the real collapses into artifice , nature into culture ; camp restores vitality to artifice , and vice versa , deriving the artificial from , and feeding it back into or as , the real . |
| 10 | There are no relations of power without resistances ; the latter are all the more real and effective because they are formed right at the point where relations of power are exercised ; resistance to power does not have to come from elsewhere to be real , nor is it inexorably frustrated through being the compatriot of power . |
| 11 | All he did was remain at the point where they first met . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Supervision of subordinates ‘ is focussed on bureaucratic procedures and not on the quality of service at the point of delivery to the public . ’ |
| 14 | Large areas of still water used for recreation are likely to be routinely closed in the summer months , just at the point of maximum use , in order to protect the public from toxic poisoning . |
| 15 | Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right . |
| 16 | Iraq is told to obey Security Council Resolution 660 and leave Kuwait at the point of American guns . |
| 17 | A seven-metre flagpole at the point of intersection completes the grand design . |
| 18 | But on April 1st the worriers will find that the NHS is still firmly in the public sector — financed from taxation and free at the point of delivery . |
| 19 | I have a hunch that true life starts at the point of recognizing our failure . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This was the theme ingeniously exploited by Poe in his tale , The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar , in which a semblance of life was related as having been preserved in a man mesmerised when at the point of death . |
| 22 | Just at the point where we were walking , the car suddenly mounted the pavement to avoid a vehicle coming in the opposite direction . |
| 23 | There were even times when the massive outlet-pipe became blocked at the point where it burst from the hillside and through the tunnel wall . |
| 24 | And at the point where the placed horses enter the paddock to unsaddle after the race stands a bronze of the mare Dawn Run , with jockey Jonjo O'Neill patting her neck . |
| 25 | 13 The lost Arch of Nero at Rome , depicted on coins minted at dome ( top ) and Lyon ( left ) ( the coins from Lyon can be distinguished by the small globe at the point of the emperor 's neck ) . |
| 26 | At the point of contraflexion , at O , the cubic curve is horizontal . |
| 27 | If you drew lines along the class map of England , I would be at the point where they all meet . ’ |
| 28 | His rustiness showed at the point when he was asked to accelerate . |
| 29 | The live anniversary performance of Messiah by George Frederic Handel ( C4 , Monday : 8.30–11.40 pm ) will be given some way from down-at-heel Fishamble Street at the Point Theatre . |
| 30 | At the Point Theatre tomorrow , conductor Sir Neville Marriner will content himself by waving his arms about . |