Example sentences of "point to [pron] [pers pn] [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 He sees part of the answer in the massive recession suffered by the British economy at that time , a point to which we shall return below .
2 ( This is a point to which we shall return . )
3 This is a point to which we will return later .
4 This oddity seems most readily explicable in practical terms : probably the heirs of Pamphilus were holding back only on making over the hundred ; as a result only the hundred came into issue ; and because of Scaevola 's proclivity to answering questions concisely ( a point to which we will return ) and ‘ on the facts as stated ’ , the circumstances of the rest of the property were simply left aside .
5 Given information represents the common ground between speaker and hearer and gives the latter a reference point to which s/he can relate new information .
6 On the one hand — and this is a point to which I shall return — there is a dual claim against Lukács ' evolutionism ( to the effect that different levels of a social formation are relatively autonomous : crudely , if bourgeois society is decadent this does not necessarily mean , as Lukács thought it did , that its art is too ) , and in favour of the possibility of being able to pass a positive ‘ aesthetic judgement ’ upon a particular work however questionable the general category under which it has been produced ( a position related to Brecht 's polemic against Lukács ) .
7 Most importantly , this brotherhood was seen as extending laterally across a generation , vertically to fathers , grandfathers , sons and grandsons , and ultimately to God — a point to which I shall return .
8 This idea that relatives will acknowledge their responsibilities more effectively if alternatives are kept to the minimum has retained a strong hold on British social policy — a point to which I shall return .
9 One important distinction between the two writers is that Bentham became much more favourably disposed towards the prison as a medium of criminal reformation than Beccaria appeared to be ( a point to which I shall return later ) .
10 The problem is not length as such but the infrequency and brevity of meetings at which the scientific work is conducted , a point to which I shall return towards the end of this paper .
11 This is a point to which I shall return in the concluding chapter .
12 The Hon. Member for Renfrew , West and Inverclyde ( Mr. Graham ) who is just out for a moment , made a particular point to which I should like to respond .
13 There are a number of other practical points to which you may wish to pay attention .
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