Example sentences of "[prep] the point of " in BNC.
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| 1 | To Wilson , they all seemed to be in a fever and like any good nurse she waited anxiously for the point of crisis , more concerned about the fate of Mrs Browning than about that of Italy . |
| 2 | The throwing and catching principle is very important for the point of contact . |
| 3 | In order to create this relationship of mutual esteem between yourself and your examiner , pay him the compliment of searching for the point of his problem . |
| 4 | In Nikko v MEPC ( cited at 13.8.1 ) the expert arranged for the point of law to be decided as a preliminary issue at a formal hearing at which he was addressed by counsel and himself assisted by a Queen 's Counsel . |
| 5 | He attempted to link his social-systems analysis to Freud 's analysis of the super-ego as the point of overlap between social , cultural and personality systems . |
| 6 | This was hardly a crucial ultimatum but , coming from a moderate , indeed sympathetic Frenchman , it suggests that the French , generally , were beyond the point of no return ; while for the Vietminh , with assorted military forces estimated at 60,000 , having already lost Haiphong as the point of entry for many of their weapons and in danger now of facing overwhelming French fire power in Hanoi , the temptations of a pre-emptive strike , even if it was an act of desperation , must have been irresistible . |
| 7 | Identify a member of staff with responsibility for producing a newsletter and acting as the point of contact for those on the mailing list . |
| 8 | " On my right hand " establishes the observer as the point of reference . |
| 9 | A given word can be seen as the point of intersection of a bundle of different strings of associations , all of which contribute to its function as a sign . |
| 10 | For the majority of those who experience Hamlet today the play 's textual medium is paramount as the point of reference to what Hamlet may be . |
| 11 | Thus , in social science much research activity is directed at simply describing how things work , how conversations are organised , how slaughtermen do their work , how managers manage , what police-officers do on the beat , and so on ; activities which are not especially motivated by explanation as the point of inquiry . |
| 12 | additionally , she acts as the point of contact with the various agents handling the magazine , Hospitality . |
| 13 | Thus that most typical mid-Victorian scientist William Thompson , Lord Kelvin ( typical in his combination of great if conventional theoretical power , quite enormous technological fertility and consequent business success ) , was clearly not happy about the mathematics of Clerk Maxwell 's electromagnetic theory of light , which is regarded by many as the point of departure for modern physics . |
| 14 | There is a point for many men which they regard as the point of no return . |
| 15 | A band between the point of maximum tolerability ( above which a project must be abandoned altogether ) and the point of minimum tolerability ( below which a risk is so small that the project can proceed without formal assessment ) . |
| 16 | Once again these changes , though dramatic over time , were changes within judicial practice , in response to shifting assumptions about the point of precedent and of judicial decision more generally . |
| 17 | As one of my old art lecturers used to say ‘ Work through the point of despair and it will come out right ’ . |
| 18 | At the same time , as de Lattre was to repeat constantly to mostly more important Americans , France was an ally and an ally , moreover , that was not far off the point of victory in Vietnam . |
| 19 | If that 's the doctor every day gave treatment Well we 're not having this forty four down get one off the point of advance line |
| 20 | The multiplicity of levels , the over-elaboration of consultative machinery , the inability to get decision-making completed nearer the point of delivery of services and what some describe as unacceptably wasteful use of manpower resources were recurrent themes in most of the areas where we worked . |
| 21 | Part of the point of selling state businesses is to raise hard cash , and taking on more debt to fund worker buyouts in return for low or non-earning equity stakes ( which may prove to be worthless in the long run ) is not a real option for the government . |
| 22 | Of course , a full acceptance of the point of view would rule out the continuation of thoughts and feelings when the brain stops functioning . |
| 23 | Korth , for instance , showed that within 20 metres of the point of origin , pellets dropped into a small stream start to lose some of their bone , by 80 metres the pellets start to break up , and by 200 metres all the bone is lost . |
| 24 | They were students at the University of Glasgow , and had no knowledge of the point of the experiment . |
| 25 | Vologsky lay back in the flight couch , his body quiescent but just short of the point of relaxation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I have spoken of the point of contact but with the proper grip it will be much easier . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I feel that your columnist Liam ‘ Mine-And-Your-Social Conscience ’ Fay misses much of the point of P. J. O'Rourke 's works , as he clearly falls into the category of what O'Rourke refers to as the ‘ permanently indignant ’ . |
| 30 | Here , as in Schelling , Something like the notion of pride in suffering is validated on the side of the hero , but , as against that , the validity of the point of view of the socio-political complex is asserted with equal force and disastrous — necessarily tragic — consequences . |