Example sentences of "[adv] the 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 | I fitted the brackets in their pairs to the top rails , grinding away the point on a plate sander . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When it is , it is exercised throughout the chain of command and not just the point at which a problem becomes apparent . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's not the point at issue , ’ Fen told her . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | If they were not the point behind the initial categorisation is nullified or at least seriously qualified ; the certainty and predictability would be minimal . |
| 20 | These are not the points over which all or most people agree . |
| 21 | And Newcastle 's manager rammed home the point by insisting that no British club could afford Tyneside 's new Gazza , 20-year-old midfield talent Lee Clark . |
| 22 | There was always the point in the conversation where we knew it just was n't going to work . |
| 23 | Add up the points for the 9 questions : |
| 24 | A mistake by Peacock let in Atkinson for the goal which wrapped up the points for Villa . |
| 25 | However , their good work at this stage was undone 11 minutes from time when a slip by veteran defender David Narey was enough to wrap up the points for the visitors . |
| 26 | From the hostel it was only a short tube ride to South Audley Street where Madame Mattli had her showrooms — yet another advantage , Paula thought , trying to weigh up the points in favour of the hostel , which she hated on sight . |
| 27 | Join up the points in a different colour , or with a dotted line so that you can compare , |
| 28 | Sometimes , it can be useful to write each main point in the argument on a separate card or sheet of paper , and physically reorder them on a table in front of you , joining up the points in your mind with a linking commentary . |
| 29 | Two fine headed goals from Paul Smith and Scott Leitch wrapped up the points in a hard-fought derby match at Central Park which saw Cowdenbeath 's Billy Herd ordered off early in the second half for a foul on Neale Cooper . |
| 30 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |