Example sentences of "[verb] at [det] 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 A description of the feature located at that point can also be entered into the host computer using a keyboard .
12 Fagin entered at this point , with two young men , and joined in the conversation .
13 The fact that costs are not sunk means production is timeless — nothing has been committed at any point .
14 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 .
15 The ball may be dropped at any point along this line .
16 But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now .
17 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
18 Over half of the staff of 62 were interviewed at some point , many more than once — a total of 66 interviews altogether .
19 The meteorological aspects of the German winter have already been discussed , and could perhaps be reread at this point ( p. 36 ) .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 The dumplings can be frozen at this point until ready to use .
23 All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point .
24 You tried at that point .
25 Had I had the receiver in my hand when some break in the conversation occurred at this point , I should have explained to you that it is in fact neither ; it is merely an examination of the various modes of thinking which the phrase implies — an examination which , in the tradition of British philosophical inquiry , seeks merely to study and perhaps oil the conceptual machinery and then to put it back more or less as it was .
26 What matters at this point is to see the importance for faith and doubt which this claim implies .
27 It could be objected at this point that all philosophy is critical , that all philosophical theory attempts to question , correct or overturn current orthodoxy and so that feminist philosophy is just philosophy , and there is nothing specifically feminist about it .
28 The mental element or mens rea under section 6(3) should be considered at this point .
29 There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some .
30 We had a succession of God-awful nannies we could n't afford — Clemence 's books had n't started to sell at that point — but the upshot was that I left for work late , came home early .
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