Example sentences of "[adv] any point in " 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 | 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 . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | There was no longer any point in even trying to shout . |
5 | So much of his part was cut there seemed hardly any point in leaving him in at all . |
6 | Was there really any point in trying to make a girl interested in Geography , whose sole aim in life was to get pregnant ? |
7 | I knew there was n't any point in asking him to return them at this stage . |
8 | ‘ There really is n't any point in shouting , ’ said Mildred , putting a pillow underneath the victim 's head . |
9 | There was n't any point in going over all that again . |
10 | And there certainly was n't any point in her moving out of her Mum 's to live alone at a time like this . |
11 | I have here a comments that there was n't any point in really restricting the numbers . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | there was n't any point in me trying |
14 | ‘ Do you suppose , ’ Kitty said now , ‘ do you suppose that there is even any point in my going to the manager and asking ? ’ |
15 | 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 . |
16 | Because there 's never any point in rooting out just the workers and leaving the management free . |