Example sentences of "[adv] at the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Fig. 9.4 the original floodplain of the river is represented by the terrace A , while , after one rejuvenation , a second terrace B was formed into which the river is again cutting down to form a third terrace C. Each terrace disappears upstream at the point to which the head of rejuvenation has receded : this can be more readily appreciated from a section down the valley ( Fig. 9.5 ) . |
| 2 | What is manifestly not disorganized in disorganized capitalism as a set of social relations is capital , either in abstraction or as a ‘ system force ’ in crucial locations , but especially at the point of production . |
| 3 | Those in between ( i.e. , 6 to 15 years service ) , who are perhaps at the point in their careers when promotion in teaching is most keenly sought , are positive , expressing willingness to take part in SSE irrespective of direct personal benefit and considering that SSE should be made compulsory in school . |
| 4 | Whereas a sales tax is collected only at the point of final sale to the consumer , VAT is collected at different stages of the production process . |
| 5 | ‘ it is , in my view , clear that the court , in considering whether a continuing situation of one or other of the kinds described in section 1(2) ( a ) exists , must do so at the point of time immediately before the process of protecting the child concerned is first put into motion . |
| 6 | Right so at the point we broke off , you were saying about things that things have changed quite a lot . |
| 7 | So at the point where it becomes clear that absolute egalitarianism is going to encroach on the interests of the middle peasants , you need to stop it ? |
| 8 | But Carolyn , backed up by Phil Morris , hammered away at the point that furnishing fabrics were not like clothes , where customers did not expect to come back for more of the same . |
| 9 | Large areas of still water used for recreation are likely to be routinely closed in the summer months , just at the point of maximum use , in order to protect the public from toxic poisoning . |
| 10 | Eleanor was nearly twice the age he felt he deserved , and it had been his ambition for a long time to have a girl just at the point when it became legal . |
| 11 | Just at the point where we were walking , the car suddenly mounted the pavement to avoid a vehicle coming in the opposite direction . |
| 12 | Riva is the major resort on this , the largest lake in Italy , and is located at the base of magnificent cliffs just at the point where the River Sarca flows into the lake . |
| 13 | For there , just at the point where canal and lake site coincide , she found one of the few recorded colonies of the narrow small reed , tenaciously clinging to the mud . |
| 14 | There was a brutal , red thumb mark just at the point where her shoulders met her neck . |
| 15 | The bodymaker passed the doors to the finishers , who in turn passed them on to the french polishers ; the doors then moved along to those whose work it was to hang them in position , the operations being so arranged that the polished door was completed just at the point where it was to be hung on the coach . |
| 16 | It is interesting to observe that just at the point when the old sources of clerical recruitment , the married clergy , were taking to celibacy , the supply of clergy did not dry up , it multiplied exceedingly . |
| 17 | Much to my surprise he was just at the point of actively seeking more support , and so a relationship began between church and community association which has developed and grown … as has , incidentally , the friendship between their respective leaders . |
| 18 | This third category of doubt strikes just at the point where the Christian is strong in faith but weak in faith 's foundations . |
| 19 | The least interesting material tends to be spun out for far too long , and the composer can fall back on clichés ( like reiterated clusters ) just at the point when a new , arresting thought is most urgently needed . |
| 20 | Although the Criterion was the first English periodical to print the work of Cocteau , Valery and Proust , it seems always to have been Eliot 's fate to espouse causes just at the point when they are about to disappear or to disintegrate . |
| 21 | But then , just at the point where my doubts about the external world had become a crescendo and I was certain that revelation was nigh , some glitch would occur . |
| 22 | I met and married my husband just at the point when I was beginning to apply for senior registrar posts . |
| 23 | And just at the point when she thought there was no more power of feeling in her , some deep instinct took over , and she found her body moving fervently with his rhythm . |
| 24 | The children did n't go for this much , since a meeting usually became necessary just at the point when they needed clean clothes , juice , a hug , or someone to play with and so on . |
| 25 | ( A pity , really , just at the point when you could do it so well ! ) |
| 26 | He 's written you a poem in which you might well think he was describing a fox outside his window but just at the point when the fox seems most real , it might be coming through the window or it might be going into its hole , he says that the hole that this fox lives in is his head . |
| 27 | Doubt is therefore tackled primarily at the point of action and not at the point of reflection . |
| 28 | Another difficulty has been that such councils are attuned to providing finance for the creation of specific works , while the need for support in popular music is not at the point of creation , but for help in reaching audiences . |
| 29 | Where there is sharp angulation of the CBD , the upper part of the stent should be 1 cm above or 1 cm below the angulation , but not at the point of angulation itself , to avoid impaction of the metallic mesh in the CBD wall and possibly further impaired drainage . |
| 30 | That is one of the options being considered , but presently they are not at the point where they can delegate projects . |