Example sentences of "[adv] any point [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Whether you are out of work and applying for a lot of jobs , or in employment but looking to change , there is only any point in applying for positions where you have a real chance of being successful .
2 Not just any point on one plane , but any point in the entire nine-dimensional hypervolume .
3 Wexford certainly was n't going to embark on a sabbath day 's journey to Sewingbury , and now they had mucked up the Kingsbrook Road with those flats , there was no longer any point in going there .
4 If not dead , the question becomes one of whether the patient still needs the ventilator in order to breathe ; and , if so , whether , from the point of view of ultimate benefit , there is any longer any point in turning it back on .
5 There was no longer any point in even trying to shout .
6 So much of his part was cut there seemed hardly any point in leaving him in at all .
7 Hence any point inside the frontier must be Pareto-inefficient .
8 Was there really any point in trying to make a girl interested in Geography , whose sole aim in life was to get pregnant ?
9 Anybody who 's still trying to work out the story about the wreath and the river , there was n't any point to it .
10 I knew there was n't any point in asking him to return them at this stage .
11 ‘ There really is n't any point in shouting , ’ said Mildred , putting a pillow underneath the victim 's head .
12 There was n't any point in going over all that again .
13 And there certainly was n't any point in her moving out of her Mum 's to live alone at a time like this .
14 I have here a comments that there was n't any point in really restricting the numbers .
15 I mean they cut in through Manchuria down the north to , to , across to north China plain , had taken the cities on the eastern seaboard which was what they wanted , I mean th th they really was n't any point in controlling the rural south , it would have taken so many troops , so much administration if they 'd that then they had everything they wanted from the trading ports so there was n't that Japanese presence and so the clearly was different .
16 there was n't any point in me trying
17 So I 've denounced them and there was n't even any point to it .
18 ‘ Do you suppose , ’ Kitty said now , ‘ do you suppose that there is even any point in my going to the manager and asking ? ’
19 We felt able to announce that we could increase this from 30 to 50 miles at virtually any point around the coast of Great Britain and Ireland .
20 If the earth spins on its axis , as Copernicus had it , then any point on the earth 's surface will move a considerable distance in a second .
21 A point many be slightly rammed home as when , in The Foreman Went To France , the brutality of the Germans in shooting refugees and bombing cities to kill innocent civilians is several times reiterated , but there is never any point in these pictures where one feels the dramatic structure is being distorted for purely message-directed ends .
22 Because there 's never any point in rooting out just the workers and leaving the management free .
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