Example sentences of "[verb] at [adj] point " in BNC.

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1 The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth .
2 Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar .
3 Other INSET and resources support was also to be organised at this point .
4 The secular decline in the Sinn Féin vote — from a peak of 13.4 per cent in 1983 to 10 per cent on April 9 — meant that Mr Adams ' seat would surely fall at some point .
5 This is why all of us will doubt at some point , whatever it is that we believe .
6 What needs to be stressed at this point is that this evolution is rooted in a very specific historical moment of production .
7 It should perhaps be stressed at this point that the three-element model , while modelling many of the features of solid polymers , remains only a model .
8 Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet .
9 Clearly , the mill was largely rebuilt at some point in the 19th century , the brick-built section tying into the much older stone range .
10 The expansion of Rome did not , however , cease at this point .
11 His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles .
12 A description of the feature located at that point can also be entered into the host computer using a keyboard .
13 Fagin entered at this point , with two young men , and joined in the conversation .
14 Meanwhile the Government tries to deny there 's a problem — apparently Thatcher even claimed at one point that no untreated sewage goes into British seas .
15 The fact that costs are not sunk means production is timeless — nothing has been committed at any point .
16 It is included at this point on the grounds that its central focus is on the meanings and understandings that people use to make sense of their everyday lives .
17 The ball may be dropped at any point along this line .
18 But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now .
19 Inflation 's fallen again to a new thirty year low , and now stands at one point two percent , down from one point three percent .
20 It 's because payments are automatically linked to inflation , which now stands at one point eight per cent .
21 The number of people unemployed has risen for the twenty-second month in a row , the figure now stands at two point six , five million .
22 Very important for the physics , because what 's happening at that point as far as the physics is concerned , when the acceleration is zero , not , think of a racing car accelerating up to top speed , down the straight and it just ca n't go any faster , it 's got up to a hundred and eighty miles an hour , and it 's
23 Over half of the staff of 62 were interviewed at some point , many more than once — a total of 66 interviews altogether .
24 The meteorological aspects of the German winter have already been discussed , and could perhaps be reread at this point ( p. 36 ) .
25 Because I just fixed my mortgage for four years with the Halifax , and it 's a total gamble fixing mortgages , by the way , if we , you know , because I do n't know where interest rates are going to go , but I , I fixed at seven point seven five percent for four years .
26 If the spinal cord is severed at any point , it will be evident that the messages can not get through and this is just what does happen in cases of severe spinal injury etc .
27 So I was particularly pleased to find at one point , when I 'd indulged in a lengthy photo session , that the rest of the party had gone over the brow and out of sight and I was left for a while with the world to myself .
28 There are one or two Well there are two items in there which have n't really been resolved at this point and that 's the i the erm ins er where am I .
29 The dumplings can be frozen at this point until ready to use .
30 The inflation rate has fallen to its lowest in twenty-five years to stand at one point seven per cent .
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