Example sentences of "[noun sg] at the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is a handy boarding gate in the lifelines on each side at the point of maximum beam |
| 2 | Day 's fulcrum at the point before the year plunges . ’ |
| 3 | It was in the shape of a V with the entrance at the point of the V. We covered both trenches with large pieces of wood scrounged from the back garden of Brigade H.Q On top of the wood were placed thick pieces of turf which acted as very good camouflage . |
| 4 | It is obvious , therefore , that to prevent noise entering your house , you need additional weight at the point of entry ; and to prevent the noise you make echoing around the house , you need soft linings in the room where the sounds are generated . |
| 5 | You keep the line dressed and straight behind the float and a certain tension at the point where the float tip protrudes from the surface so that the slightest movement of your wrist just lifts the float fractionally without interfering with its progress downstream and you watch it lift slightly and settle and feel in your bones — if you 've executed the hold-back right — that it will surely sink to a fish before travelling another inch . |
| 6 | One problem with this kind of editing is that you may not get a clean cut at the points where you stop and start . |
| 7 | The customer 's card is passed through a terminal at the point of sale . |
| 8 | Leave some slack at the point where the cable enters slack at the point where the cable enters the floor or ceiling void , to allow it to be bedded in a recessed chase cut into the plaster at some future date . |
| 9 | Leave some slack at the point where the cable enters slack at the point where the cable enters the floor or ceiling void , to allow it to be bedded in a recessed chase cut into the plaster at some future date . |
| 10 | For this reason it is not good practice to acquire high concentration and dilute them on site for use as stock concentrates and stored for further dilution at the point of use . |
| 11 | Even more alien to the spirit of British law , is a recent amendment to the Directive which enables a member state to declare an object a national treasure ‘ before or after its lawful removal ’ , and therefore take retrospective action at the point of sale or at any time subsequently . |
| 12 | Christine Brooke-Rose 's Such ( 1966 ) , for example , like some of Beckett 's narrative , follows movements in a mind of weirdly diminished vitality , transcribing a whirling chaos of images which invade consciousness at the point of death . |
| 13 | In this case , the DCSL exercised some kind of influence at the point of selection and provided some help with cataloguing and processing of the new resources once purchased . |
| 14 | The conference approved the Economic Equality policy review which proposes : Ending tax on childcare ; Introducing a minimum wage starting at half of average male earnings ( £2.80 an hour ) , rising to two-thirds the average ; Income tax levels of no higher than 50 per cent at the top , down to less than 20 per cent at the bottom ; ‘ A significant and generous increase in child benefit over the lifetime of the Parliament ’ ; To tax gifts and inheritance at the point of receipt ; To crack down on tax loopholes ; Raise pensions immediately by £5 for single people and £8 for couples ; To introduce a new disability benefit ; To simplify income support rules ; To keep mortgage interest tax relief ‘ at a single rate equivalent to the basic rate relief which we inherit ’ . |
| 15 | The TVEI programme required clear management at the point of input , at the end of each of the years of a scheme 's work ( particularly at the cross-over from the main secondary school stage to the college phase ) and at the stage of evaluation . |
| 16 | Each case is entered on the plot at the point representing its X and Y values . |
| 17 | Because merchants paid enormous sums for the right to sell vodka , the imperial government had long been prepared to overlook their chicanery at the point of sale . |
| 18 | Ellen Wilkinson called him ‘ The Sheikh … not the nice kind man who rescues the girl at the point of torture but the one who hisses , ‘ At last … we meet ! ’ ’ |
| 19 | The first is that there are serious impediments to ensuring that full and accurate records accompany each child at the point of transfer and that the secondary schools make full use of them when the primary teachers undertake their part . |
| 20 | At the cessation of the solo passage , if the instrument continues to play but only has a subordinate part , it is a good plan to place an asterisk at the point where the prominent passage ends . |
| 21 | The advantage of territorial departmentation is better local decision-making at the point of contact between the organisation ( eg a salesman ) and its customers . |
| 22 | Freeze provides the ability to stop a session in order to obtain further input data/information or process a higher priority enquiry and then to re-commence session at the point of interrupt . |
| 23 | c ) Consider installing a depth gauge post at the point where the road regularly floods . |
| 24 | The refuges symbolise the renewal of militant self-help by working with women in crisis at the point where their sex and class oppression meet . |
| 25 | Non-marketed services include all those public services which are provided free of charge at the point of consumption — health , defence , civil service , most schools , police , etc . |
| 26 | The bedstead , descending the narrower stairs from the second floor , had become firmly wedged between the banisters and the wall at the point where the stairs turned . |
| 27 | And we want the gradient at the point where X equals three . |
| 28 | 13 The lost Arch of Nero at Rome , depicted on coins minted at dome ( top ) and Lyon ( left ) ( the coins from Lyon can be distinguished by the small globe at the point of the emperor 's neck ) . |
| 29 | Higher education or ‘ advanced ’ courses are normally distinguished from ‘ non-advanced ’ courses by being beyond A level , Scottish ‘ Highers ’ ( not the same ) or the equivalent in technical qualifications ( such as BTEC National ) , though recent trends towards more flexible access have tended to erode this demarcation at the point of entry , particularly in relation to mature students . |
| 30 | Instead of burying the problem , with the horrific potential for its future disturbance by everything from earthquakes to a fresh ice age , they demanded that the waste should be stored on the surface at the point at which it was produced . |