Example sentences of "[adv] at [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mine comes from peaty moorland and the pH is too low with the result that over the years copper pipework corrodes in places , especially at low points . |
| 2 | The foundations of personal care in families The picture which emerges from evidence about personal care given to relatives is one of very extensive amounts of support , especially at particular points in the life course . |
| 3 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
| 4 | I talked him down at one point |
| 5 | Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices . |
| 6 | The speeches are short ( perhaps the school prize-giving metaphor breaks down at this point ) and the polished public school tones of the Synod have given way to nasal northern echoes . |
| 7 | Perhaps at this point in time , there was a change from sea-floor spreading in the North Atlantic area , to sea-floor contraction . |
| 8 | How about , perhaps at this point , having a look at non-verbal behaviour , perhaps more broadly ? |
| 9 | Perhaps at some point he smiles slightly to himself , so that Millie smiles , too , and says , ‘ What ? ’ |
| 10 | The best place to find the pulse in a child over one-year-old is the carotid artery which passes either side of the windpipe in the neck and can be felt by pressing two forefingers gently at this point . |
| 11 | It was only at that point that we felt confident that the field-worker was being talked to by respondents as a person rather than as some novel sex object , and the veracity of what they said could be treated by us with more confidence . |
| 12 | THE VALLEY OF THE River Lune between Sedbergh and Kirkby Lonsdale is bounded on the east by a lofty range of hills forming a continuous high skyline broken only at one point where a pronounced gap indicates the narrow cutting of Barbondale , carrying a lonely road over a low watershed to Dentdale . |
| 13 | We may detect his private opinion only at one point . |
| 14 | Furthermore , we are assuming that the absence of latent heat and a change in specific volume is true not only at one point but along a finite part of the ( p , T ) diagram . |
| 15 | Each of several characters is followed through twenty-four hours and their lives touch only at certain points in the narrative . |
| 16 | It is only at this point that we come to the central theme , the reason why all those who wish to understand the problem of drugs in sport should read this book . |
| 17 | Only at this point did Dan protest about being neglected . |
| 18 | It is only at this point that the style gets locked in . |
| 19 | It is only at this point that the newspaper reader learns that the rapist and the victim had been next door neighbours at the time of the original offence . |
| 20 | Only at this point is a conspiratorial interpretation of the role of the media justified . |
| 21 | As Branch Manager Ian Davies said ‘ the excitement must have been terrific because only at this point did anyone realise that Stella could n't swim and it was only Freddy and the wet suit that were keeping her afloat ! ’ |
| 22 | It was only at this point that CNN complied with the restraining order and ceased broadcasting excerpts from the tapes pending an appeal to the Supreme Court . |
| 23 | When this is done , the LIFESPAN display of the package contents will show the constituent modules ( even though the new ones exist in name only at this point ) . |
| 24 | I do n't think we know enough at this point to make a judgment . ’ |
| 25 | He probably could n't even speak clearly enough at this point for anyone to hear him properly . |
| 26 | So at that point then did you almost give up hope that you would be rescued ? that you more or less were going to end in the sea at that point ? |
| 27 | And so at that point , nothing very much was published . |
| 28 | All this may seem rather general and abstract , so at this point we might ask where literature fits into Derrida 's scheme and how Derrida might be relevant to literature . |
| 29 | So at this point expectations of inflation are correct , and given those expectations the government can not achieve a higher iso-vote line . |
| 30 | Is the real wage over time so at this point let's just say that 's a hundred , a hundred pounds and this is ten say two , well lifespan is thirty , thirty years and a hundred pounds erm today , today is worth er no |