Example sentences of "[noun] at the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a handy boarding gate in the lifelines on each side at the point of maximum beam |
| 2 | Day 's fulcrum at the point before the year plunges . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is obvious , therefore , that to prevent noise entering your house , you need additional weight at the point of entry ; and to prevent the noise you make echoing around the house , you need soft linings in the room where the sounds are generated . |
| 5 | You keep the line dressed and straight behind the float and a certain tension at the point where the float tip protrudes from the surface so that the slightest movement of your wrist just lifts the float fractionally without interfering with its progress downstream and you watch it lift slightly and settle and feel in your bones — if you 've executed the hold-back right — that it will surely sink to a fish before travelling another inch . |
| 6 | Iraq is told to obey Security Council Resolution 660 and leave Kuwait at the point of American guns . |
| 7 | The customer 's card is passed through a terminal at the point of sale . |
| 8 | Details of the team 's full caseload , in terms of the location of clients at the point of referral , the nature of the challenging behaviours and progress with the design and implementation of Individual Service Plans for clients in each of the referring districts is available elsewhere ( Special Development Team , 1988 ; Emerson et al. , 1987 ; 1988 ) . |
| 9 | Leave some slack at the point where the cable enters slack at the point where the cable enters the floor or ceiling void , to allow it to be bedded in a recessed chase cut into the plaster at some future date . |
| 10 | Leave some slack at the point where the cable enters slack at the point where the cable enters the floor or ceiling void , to allow it to be bedded in a recessed chase cut into the plaster at some future date . |
| 11 | For this reason it is not good practice to acquire high concentration and dilute them on site for use as stock concentrates and stored for further dilution at the point of use . |
| 12 | Even more alien to the spirit of British law , is a recent amendment to the Directive which enables a member state to declare an object a national treasure ‘ before or after its lawful removal ’ , and therefore take retrospective action at the point of sale or at any time subsequently . |
| 13 | Christine Brooke-Rose 's Such ( 1966 ) , for example , like some of Beckett 's narrative , follows movements in a mind of weirdly diminished vitality , transcribing a whirling chaos of images which invade consciousness at the point of death . |
| 14 | In this case , the DCSL exercised some kind of influence at the point of selection and provided some help with cataloguing and processing of the new resources once purchased . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | And we had sixty pullets at the point of lay in this house to be moved out from the house to a field . |
| 17 | The TVEI programme required clear management at the point of input , at the end of each of the years of a scheme 's work ( particularly at the cross-over from the main secondary school stage to the college phase ) and at the stage of evaluation . |
| 18 | Each case is entered on the plot at the point representing its X and Y values . |
| 19 | Because merchants paid enormous sums for the right to sell vodka , the imperial government had long been prepared to overlook their chicanery at the point of sale . |
| 20 | Ellen Wilkinson called him ‘ The Sheikh … not the nice kind man who rescues the girl at the point of torture but the one who hisses , ‘ At last … we meet ! ’ ’ |
| 21 | The first is that there are serious impediments to ensuring that full and accurate records accompany each child at the point of transfer and that the secondary schools make full use of them when the primary teachers undertake their part . |
| 22 | At the cessation of the solo passage , if the instrument continues to play but only has a subordinate part , it is a good plan to place an asterisk at the point where the prominent passage ends . |
| 23 | The advantage of territorial departmentation is better local decision-making at the point of contact between the organisation ( eg a salesman ) and its customers . |
| 24 | Freeze provides the ability to stop a session in order to obtain further input data/information or process a higher priority enquiry and then to re-commence session at the point of interrupt . |
| 25 | The gospel touched their lives at the point of loneliness , so the church opened a day care centre providing a lounge with comfortable chairs and a hot meal as an alternative to depending on the local authority ‘ meals on wheels ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | c ) Consider installing a depth gauge post at the point where the road regularly floods . |
| 28 | In the car industry , control of the labour process through machine-pacing was also not generally regarded as a viable strategy by British management in the context of the existence of powerful labour organisations at the point of production and a desire to reduce the perceived increasing antagonism of labour to capital . |
| 29 | They were given authority to make decisions to help guests at the point of contact . |
| 30 | The refuges symbolise the renewal of militant self-help by working with women in crisis at the point where their sex and class oppression meet . |