Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was forces and not mass which he perceived as crucial ; and thus the field between the points was where the interest lay . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Predictable though it was , it had taken ‘ about fifteen years of experience for the point to really strike home ’ . |
| 4 | Adopting an inappropriate style can accordingly damage your credibility as a writer , and undermine the force of the points your essay makes . |
| 5 | That said , I appreciate the force of the points Mr has been making . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A demonstration of the point is to compare Civilisation by Kenneth Clark in its forms as television and book . |
| 8 | However , competitors ' terms may provide the drafter with an indication of the points which should be covered in the standard terms . |
| 9 | Clearly , detecting the opening and closing of the points under static conditions will be somewhat problematic since most ohmmeters will not just be able to detect such a small change in resistance . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Conversely , developing your skill with the nuances of essay-writing style can enhance the effect of the points you make , and enable you to steer comfortably through complexities of the arguments you present . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | On the Moon similar disruption of the points opposite the Imbrium and Orientale impact centres is seen . |
| 15 | 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 : |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The object of this peripatetic programme from the point of view of Oxbridge was outlined by the Oxford Vice-Chancellor in 1887 : |
| 20 | ‘ He could always see the illusion from the point of view of the audience . |
| 21 | If the leverage was too high , the needle would not stay in the groove without the weight upon the point being increased . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | His nervous tension , allied to the freezing cold , combined to fill his bladder to the point where it became decidedly uncomfortable . |
| 24 | The standard deviation can usefully be visualized as the distance from the mean to the point of inflection of the bell-shaped curve . |
| 25 | The standard deviation can usefully be visualized as the distance from the mean to the point of inflection of the bell-shaped curve . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Technology enforces rigorous thinking to the point of revealing embarrassing gaps in learning , teaching and training theory . |
| 28 | They expand the consciousness to the point of bursting , but feel no obligation to raise the consciousness , elevate it to lofty concerns . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |