Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might even be justified as regarding the end of each sentence as the point at which the sender assesses the effect on a potential receiver , imagines a reply , and adjusts the next sentence accordingly . |
| 2 | Predictable though it was , it had taken ‘ about fifteen years of experience for the point to really strike home ’ . |
| 3 | I see the force of the point that councillors should be trusted to use the right to sue for libel only in circumstances where it is necessary in the public interest . |
| 4 | A demonstration of the point is to compare Civilisation by Kenneth Clark in its forms as television and book . |
| 5 | The zig-zag of part ‘ B ’ of the pattern is six stitches wide and we can arrange it so that three stitches lie either side of the point of the ‘ V ’ , by putting the N1 cam between needles 18 and 19 to the left of centre . |
| 6 | Emphasising the futility of filling up a large sheet of cartridge paper the size of a drawing board with the object you are drawing , irrespective of its proximity , Sickert insisted on the importance of never sketching the figure and the background separately , and once having gone over the original drawing faintly in outline , to put in the shadows with the side of the point of the pencil . |
| 7 | When these 40 or so cells have moved out of the wall they begin to put out fine extensions — very long thin filopodia — which can attach to the wall , contract , and so pull the cell towards the point of attachment . |
| 8 | If , bearing in mind the theory of society and superego development so far advanced in this book , we now turn our attention back to the analysis of modern culture outlined in the article from which I quoted so extensively in the chapter before last , we can see that the following remarks , also from that article , take on a much greater significance in the light of the point which I made at the conclusion of the last regarding the lack of a culturally determined latency period among the Australian aborigines : |
| 9 | Yet this would be to miss the essence of the point Marx seeks to make : for bad treatment by employers of employees is open to correction by moral conviction whether that of the employers themselves acting in pursuance of enlightened self-interest , or that of legislatures acting to prevent abuses ; and the simple understanding would , by introducing the possibility of an extrinsic and corrective moral factor , threaten the inevitability of the class war . |
| 10 | ‘ I am absolutely satisfied that the biopsy needle could not have been responsible for the rupture in the wall of the aneurysm , which was on the far side from the point where the needle entered , ’ said Mr Miles . |
| 11 | As a matter of fact , although it is an extra extravagance from the point of view of fuel , the chicken will be very much nicer cooked the same day as it is to be eaten , before it has had time to harden up . |
| 12 | The object of this peripatetic programme from the point of view of Oxbridge was outlined by the Oxford Vice-Chancellor in 1887 : |
| 13 | ‘ He could always see the illusion from the point of view of the audience . |
| 14 | If the leverage was too high , the needle would not stay in the groove without the weight upon the point being increased . |
| 15 | If the central government plays a role purely in terms of revenue raising , then an unconditional grant would seem the most appropriate instrument from the point of view of benefiting the recipient local authority . |
| 16 | His nervous tension , allied to the freezing cold , combined to fill his bladder to the point where it became decidedly uncomfortable . |
| 17 | The standard deviation can usefully be visualized as the distance from the mean to the point of inflection of the bell-shaped curve . |
| 18 | The standard deviation can usefully be visualized as the distance from the mean to the point of inflection of the bell-shaped curve . |
| 19 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 20 | Technology enforces rigorous thinking to the point of revealing embarrassing gaps in learning , teaching and training theory . |
| 21 | They expand the consciousness to the point of bursting , but feel no obligation to raise the consciousness , elevate it to lofty concerns . |
| 22 | Hence , even where force is used in self-defence in response to the first use of violence the employment of a greater degree of force than that used by the attacker , or the continued use of force beyond the point where the attacker is willing or unable to continue the attack would not be seen as legitimate in law . |
| 23 | The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour . |
| 24 | Both the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror said that we might take our opposition to the point of resignation . |
| 25 | None of them pushed their opposition to the point of resignation , although there was a good deal of muttering and discussion . |
| 26 | Presumably he believed that though his wife might join in a little family intrigue against him , she would not want to carry her opposition to the point of war — particularly if that were to involve her in an alliance with her ex-husband . |
| 27 | Paradoxically it is the pressure created by the enormous guilt , and by the doomed attempt to deal with it , that builds tension to the point where it is more likely to explode into real physical abuse . |
| 28 | He then climbed down again , and followed the coaxial cables across the roof to the point where they went over the rear wall of the building and in through one of the bedroom windows of the apartment next to his . |
| 29 | Eventually uplift may be sufficient to stretch the brittle overlying crust to the point where it fractures and a rift valley forms ( Fig. 4.5(C) ) . |
| 30 | Preventive action beyond the point of a child 's admission to care is seen as a fourth level of prevention . |