Example sentences of "point [vb pp] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , the little Peugeot has achieved something close to cult status , a point highlighted by the eye-catching TV commercial for the XS . |
| 2 | He had also converted the poor heathland soil of the area into most fruitful land , a point stressed by the observant Kalm . |
| 3 | He did not mention the point missed by the hon. Member for Dewsbury , that disconnections are now at a low level . |
| 4 | The principal point made in the first discussion paper on Finance is that the United Kingdom in 1973/74 contributed £313 million towards the support of Northern Ireland services , the equivalent of £200 per annum per head of the population . |
| 5 | This rather sad quote illustrates very sharply a point made in the previous chapter , which is that a field of learning such as physics , which has great power to change our lives , is usually divorced from a consideration of moral issues . |
| 6 | Will the Minister reconsider the point made by the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) ? |
| 7 | I shall concentrate on the point made by the hon. Member for Blackburn . |
| 8 | I take the point made by the hon. Member for Renfrew , West and Inverclyde ( Mr. Graham ) , that many people are unable to pay the community charge . |
| 9 | To return to the point made by the hon. Member for Islington , South and Finsbury ( Mr. Smith ) , this is all about transparency and opening up the process to much greater public scrutiny , so that the public can see what is going on , the taxpayer can see what his or her money is being spent on and the customer can see the standard of service being contracted to be provided . |
| 10 | I have considerable sympathy with the point made by the hon. Member for West Bromwich , East ( Mr. Snape ) . |
| 11 | I take the point made by the hon. Member for Romford — that any threshold gives rise to feelings of unfairness . |
| 12 | As to the capital allowance , I was interested in the point made by the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne , and I agree with the comments made by my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield ( Mr. Smith ) in his intervention . |
| 13 | The second point made by the hon. Member for Berwick-upon-Tweed was about RECHAR and I am anxious to respond positively to him . |
| 14 | I will look again at the point made by the hon. Member for Greenock and Port Glasgow . |
| 15 | Such contacts can reinforce the effectiveness of our views on the point made by the hon. Gentleman , which is that the death sentence on Salman Rushdie is an unacceptable infringement of his rights as a British citizen . |
| 16 | Erm the si the iss er the point raised by the Senior Inspector . |
| 17 | I have attempted to reply to the point raised by the hon. Member for Sedgefield by putting on record the reasons why some people may find it difficult to understand why no prosecution was pursued . |
| 18 | These included a reduction in value added tax from 18 to 17 per cent at the start of 1993 and a 4 percentage point cut in the corporate tax rate to 36 per cent spread over the 1993-97 period . |
| 19 | Composite work method — oncoming men take up the cycle at the point left by the previous shift . |
| 20 | People seem to be able to use prior syntactic and semantic context to select a word even before the discrimination point specified by the phonological description ( Marslen-Wilson & Tyler 1980 , Cole & Jakimik 1980 ) . |
| 21 | All this leaves Scotland needing to draw against Norway to make it to Italy , a point taken by the Scottish League , who yesterday agreed to postpone three Premier Division fixtures four days before the decider . |
| 22 | Heather Johnston , a graduate in photography at the Royal College of Art , works at the interface between painting and photography ; a point reinforced by the ornate gilt frames which surround her photographs . |