Example sentences of "[adv] [art] point [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clean channel is too clean , and beyond a certain volume ( which is painful ! ) the sounds starts to break up into a rough distortion ( presumably the point at which the speaker starts to flap ) . |
| 2 | That is perhaps the point of the big glass , wrote Harsnet . |
| 3 | So the point of the maxim that actions speak louder than words is not that people never use non-linguistic actions to communicate ( which is when they may be deliberately misleading ) , but that language is much less often used to do anything else . |
| 4 | So the point of conclusion is if the myth is different in the Bible then the likely explanation is that it was tampered with , but that the scribes and the people who wrote the Bible altered the and they changed it round why should they change this myth ? |
| 5 | So the point about the royals , erm , getting involved with these things is there 's always gon na be people that disagree with what they 're lobbying for . |
| 6 | The Venetian author of the Italian Relation of England commented specifically on the English sense of national pride , and presumably was thinking of attitudes which he encountered generally and not merely the point of view of the more literate : ' … the English are great lovers of themselves and everything belonging to them ; they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say ‘ he looks like an Englishman ’ ' ( 35 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 7 | The Americans and their allies have always made it plain that January 15th was merely the point after which war would become authorised , not necessarily the date for attack . |
| 8 | But there was obviously no point in wasting any more time expecting to get results the easy way . |
| 9 | I think the important thing is not to let them go away thinking , you know , oh , why did I bother , there 's obviously no point in carrying on with it . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , as Ladbrokes shortened Nashwan 's odds for next Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from 2-1 to 7-4 with a run , French Glory came down a point to 7-1 amid rumours that Pat Eddery would switch to him from Khalid Abdullah 's other probable runner , Assatis . |
| 11 | Again , perhaps a point of clarification to be to be helpful . |
| 12 | Obviously a point with a higher weight is brighter than one with a lower weight . |
| 13 | Take any set S , and let X be the set of finite subsets of S ; so a point in X is a finite set { s , s , s , … s } of elements of S. The number of elements in x is sometimes written |x| |
| 14 | It could even be dependent on the cluster : Say the number is k , so a point in C is nearly central if |
| 15 | Wigan need only a point for a remarkable third successive championship and their fourth title in six years , but with Andy Gregory and Joe Lydon fit , their vast following will expect a stylish celebration . |
| 16 | Hetton are only a point off the pacemakers after they won by six wickets Langley . |
| 17 | The answer : only a point of departure . |
| 18 | This year we are only a point behind that pace . |
| 19 | I fitted the brackets in their pairs to the top rails , grinding away the point on a plate sander . |
| 20 | Thus the point of the lives of those who are mainly engaged in politics , nursing , mining and so forth is to keep a society going in which personal love and the enjoyment of beauty can flourish . |
| 21 | So you , so I , I , I do n't agree with you on that point but anyway the point of refining , the point of refining the capital programme is there is an im implication of , of , of debt repayment er , which is part of revenue , which could have an implication er , upon how we reach our reductions . |
| 22 | When it is , it is exercised throughout the chain of command and not just the point at which a problem becomes apparent . |
| 23 | If it strikes you this way , let me remind you that Peter 's particular values are not the point at issue , and invite you to sit down quietly and compose your own , very different equivalent . |
| 24 | But the ‘ truth ’ is not the point at issue ; what matters is that as human beings we necessarily engage in an interpretative process when we encounter others , as they do with us . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's not the point at issue , ’ Fen told her . |
| 26 | ‘ That is not the point of Helmut 's creation ! ’ she said loudly , stamping on his foot and turning her bum out of range of his enveloping coat . |
| 27 | To the perspectival appearance at that point of view being what it is it makes no difference whether or not the point of view is occupied by a viewer . |
| 28 | Some fun and a few games were certainly unavoidable ( there are colleagues who always go too far ) , but that was not the point of the Party 's annual seaside jamboree . |
| 29 | It 's not it 's not the point of the money it 's the fact is that they 've lied to me erm and really I want =em . |
| 30 | If they were not the point behind the initial categorisation is nullified or at least seriously qualified ; the certainty and predictability would be minimal . |