Example sentences of "[verb] at [num] point " in BNC.
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| 31 | Secondly , several explanatory variables were difficult to measure and were only measured at one point in time . |
| 32 | Inside I was guided down a weird stairway and told at one point to watch my step carefully . |
| 33 | It was the psychedelic 60s and drugs were beginning to their part in the Arts Lab , and I recall at one point David lecturing the audience on the dangers of taking drugs . ’ |
| 34 | I drank too much at dinner and missed whole stretches of conversation , noting at one point with tipsy clarity that people who could converse were a great boon to the inarticulate who yet , when in the company of their tongue-tied fellows , felt it essential to say something . |
| 35 | For this reason , developmental psychologists frequently introduce descriptions of mental models , cognitive representations or conceptual understanding to provide a link between the kinds of learning which may have occurred at one point in time and the relatively sophisticated behaviours which are subsequently observed . |
| 36 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 37 | ( Indeed , Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin commented at one point that the United States Constitution had broken down and was giving way to dictatorship . ) |
| 38 | But the Hilder revealed itself , running down like a tinsel thread , crossed at one point by stepping stones , at another by the massive stone pillars that once had supported an aqueduct bringing water to the buildings of the Goughdale Mine . |
| 39 | ‘ God help the politician who does n't like children , ’ as he remarked at one point . |
| 40 | As Lord Quinton remarked at one point : |
| 41 | For example , the worker may pause at one point and scratch his nose , this may indicate that a critical decision is being made or it may indicate simply that his nose was itching . |
| 42 | She took up riding at one point , but that did n't come to anything . |
| 43 | He recognises at one point that claims for the ‘ intrinsically greater objectivity of written language ’ in literate culture may derive from socially constructed beliefs about what literacy can achieve ( 1982 ) . |
| 44 | And of course , we settled at eight point six two or something ridiculous . |
| 45 | It was even proposed at one point that the reef itself should simply be drenched in copper . |
| 46 | The defences at Alcester have only been found at one point on the north-west side by the river , and are of two periods with a wall supported by timber piles , close enough to the river bank as not to need a ditch system at this point . |
| 47 | Eccleshall himself implicitly acknowledges this problem , for he notes at one point that Thatcherism 's characteristics — ‘ its mixture of abrasively theoretical market economics , uncompromising anti-egalitarianism and fervent patriotism ’ — are hardly ‘ the ingredients of what Oakeshottians judge to be authentic Conservatism ’ . |
| 48 | ‘ I had 24 shock treatments when I was 17 , ’ he notes at one point . |
| 49 | ‘ You can not make peace with dictators , you have to destroy them , ’ Nelson asserts at one point for the benefit of inattentive members of the audience . |
| 50 | KITCHENS SINGER Patrick Fitzgerald has a way with egotistical comments : ‘ Our tour manager 's fallen right down-to-earth , ’ he beams at one point during tonight 's proceedings . |
| 51 | Erm and the recurrence rates were considerably increased at eight point one and nine point three . |
| 52 | ‘ Stupendous — spectacular , ’ she offered distractedly , forcing her mind back to the mind-fazing wonders of the gorge running between mountains of pure marble and through thirty-eight tunnels , and even spanned at one point by a bridge of marble . |
| 53 | Indeed the British hoped at one point that they would be able to act as a partner of the United States in the recovery programme . |
| 54 | Olson , for instance , does admit at one point that all we can really be sure of is that some academics have made claims for objectivity while the question of assessing those claims is a different matter : |
| 55 | The monthly inflation rate has remained at four point one per cent , but it is below the German annual inflation rate for the first time since nineteen sixty-seven . |
| 56 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 57 | Perhaps it was as well that it was she and not her sister who was here , she thought at one point — and then immediately realised how ridiculous that thought was . |
| 58 | Wisely avoiding any rigorous definition , it offered at one point : |
| 59 | Its orbit takes it around the world once every 24 hours , so it appears to stay at one point in the sky . |
| 60 | ‘ Naylor tells me you 're one of the best executives in your particular line , ’ Cicely Hepwood , a neat and gentle woman , remarked at one point during the meal . |