Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [adj] point " in BNC.

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1 Already it had whipped the shallow water inside the reef into short seas , white-capped and capable of stopping the big cat in its tracks if he had tried sailing for the far point and Belpan City .
2 The evidence for the second point of view is limited , but certainly stronger than that for the first .
3 They go in for the emotional point of view , and I thought it would help them see me in a fatherly light , giving him my own name .
4 Yet Iago suddenly wheeled his pony again , and made for the highest point of the ridge , where he could look back over the valley , and see as far as the scattered outer copses and the rim of the forest .
5 All British aquatic clubs are eligible to receive the questions and answers with prizes for the highest points obtained .
6 However , when music is written for a specific text , the maximum musical climax must be kept back for the decisive point in the words .
7 fair point , its still er , I mean its a considerable number , I mean you can see why the insurance company 's are doing quite well , but your willing to put up with that as well for the , for the good points of a car , for the freedom that er , that cars give you and the safety someone has said , the individual safety as a woman , yes .
8 Go for the key points — the points that sustain the argument and help to clinch it .
9 So I fell into one of my enjoyable reveries , examining the problem from every angle , looking for the key point where I might provoke a few kilocreds to tumble into my lap , by acquiring a bit of phetam .
10 The classification exercise provides another arena for the conflicting points of view as to the relative importance of good people as opposed to good systems .
11 Working on a quality paper , where journalists have more room for the finer points and a more informed audience , is considered to be much less demanding .
12 In the seventeenth century Louis XIV had a sculpture park at Versailles , but it surrounded his palace , and was more formally designed by Le Nôtre , who needed sculptures for the focal points of his avenues .
13 This is then used to modify the scale of the untranslated values in proportion to the position as calculated between a z value of unit scale and a z value for the vanishing point .
14 In the end , they held on for the vital points , having gained five in their last three games to ensure safety .
15 On Saturday , the clowns troop out of Butlins for the high point of the convention — the grand parade through the town on foot , stilts or in any number of clown cars — Volks-wagen Beetles mostly , one with four reindeer perched on its bumper , another with wooden hands in place of windscreen wipers .
16 The Phostrogen prize for the most points in the show was shared between Mr. W. Howarth and Mrs. J. Lee .
17 Our samples were no exception : Table 5.1 takes a loose definition of ‘ carer ’ and shows — for the three points in time — whether the dementia sufferer lived with someone who helped in some way to care for him or her , and if not , how frequently he or she was visited by someone on an informal caring basis .
18 Despite the wet and slippery conditions , both sides served up a feast of football and Abingdon were good value for the three points .
19 And when you that lay down you can look at whoever what the other players have got face up and you either go for a player or you go for the maximum points .
20 Concentrate on essentials Go for the main points of the lecture , not details .
21 Is national Sec right to expect that the national office will be seen as the normal point of contact with people in his nation ?
22 Point T is known as the triple point .
23 Your lower leg should be at the same height as the knee as the latter points to the target .
24 Hence , subject to your approval , we would intend to act as the principal point of contact for interested parties and their various professional advisers , keeping you fully appraised of developments as they arise .
25 The ‘ central arm ’ feature of the rear suspension describes the function of the front longitudinal arm mount as the central point or ‘ pole ’ of the axle .
26 Hitler 's ‘ prophecy ’ , a brief moment in his two-hour speech , was singled out as the central point of the newsreel coverage on 3 February .
27 He saw himself as the only point of free will in the landscape before him , and if he could move his body with a purpose , then his mind would shake off the slough of misery and clear for action .
28 It was correctly viewed as the low point of wartime morale on the home front .
29 The rise in unemployment and the fall in output at the start of the decade could be seen as the low point of a cycle which started with the 1930s ' innovations in chemical industries and light engineering and generated the new consumer durable industries that fuelled the long post-Second-World-War boom .
30 The following were listed as the key points in economic construction during the coming decade and the eighth five-year plan period : strengthening agriculture ; strengthening the basic industries and infrastructure and reorganizing and transforming the processing industry ; and strengthening educational , scientific and technological undertakings .
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