Example sentences of "[vb pp] at [num] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 2 | Meanwhile the Government tries to deny there 's a problem — apparently Thatcher even claimed at one point that no untreated sewage goes into British seas . |
| 3 | Decisions are made at one point , and so easier to coordinate . |
| 4 | They had all come to her , one by one , during the evening , an evening harried with telephone calls — ‘ I do n't think , ’ Anna had said at one point , ‘ that we have eaten an uninterrupted meal in twenty-one years ’ — and they had all explained to her how awful they felt , and how guilty they felt about feeling awful , because it was n't anybody 's fault , and that made it worse , having nobody to blame . |
| 5 | Thus the boy is seen at one point in relation to Pemberton ( " his little charge " ) , at another in relation to Mrs Moreen ( " her son " ) , and at another in relation to both ( " their companion " ) . |
| 6 | The abbot of Hailes , who kept a flock of 900 head at Longborough , was accused at one point of harassing his tenants there preparatory to enclosure , though he never went through with it . |
| 7 | As originally disclosed by the Guardian , the estimated value of the tax concessions alone offered at one point during the negotiations was close to £35 million , while the European Commission was led to believe that BAe would benefit by only £25 million from the easing of tax restrictions . |
| 8 | Secondly , several explanatory variables were difficult to measure and were only measured at one point in time . |
| 9 | Inside I was guided down a weird stairway and told at one point to watch my step carefully . |
| 10 | This loop is then paid out fully , and spread at the groundbase to form a triangle which is securely anchored at two points . |
| 11 | For this reason , developmental psychologists frequently introduce descriptions of mental models , cognitive representations or conceptual understanding to provide a link between the kinds of learning which may have occurred at one point in time and the relatively sophisticated behaviours which are subsequently observed . |
| 12 | Wistaria Cottage was n't worth much and in any case he had talked at one point of trading it in for an annuity . |
| 13 | But the Hilder revealed itself , running down like a tinsel thread , crossed at one point by stepping stones , at another by the massive stone pillars that once had supported an aqueduct bringing water to the buildings of the Goughdale Mine . |
| 14 | It was even proposed at one point that the reef itself should simply be drenched in copper . |
| 15 | The defences at Alcester have only been found at one point on the north-west side by the river , and are of two periods with a wall supported by timber piles , close enough to the river bank as not to need a ditch system at this point . |
| 16 | Erm and the recurrence rates were considerably increased at eight point one and nine point three . |
| 17 | Indeed the British hoped at one point that they would be able to act as a partner of the United States in the recovery programme . |
| 18 | The monthly inflation rate has remained at four point one per cent , but it is below the German annual inflation rate for the first time since nineteen sixty-seven . |
| 19 | ‘ Naylor tells me you 're one of the best executives in your particular line , ’ Cicely Hepwood , a neat and gentle woman , remarked at one point during the meal . |
| 20 | In the Insta Pump technology , air is inserted at three points on the shoe by use of the CO2 inflation device . |
| 21 | The current value of the land is estimated at one point five million , but the land at the time of any sale would be determined by the most favourable planning consent which can be obtained at the time . |
| 22 | finished at one point but it 's veneered |
| 23 | Compared with the measurement of alkalinisation and salinisation , whose samples of soil can be easily gathered at one point in time and the electrical conductivity of saturation extracts gauged , the measurement of soil loss is more demanding . |
| 24 | Dressed down in T-shirt , torn jeans and thermal long johns , Toni keeps disappearing between songs , agitated at one point actually scolding soundman Kevin over the mic . |
| 25 | Because the data comes from a survey conducted at one point in time , we can not tell if the relationship is conditional upon age or period , however . |
| 26 | Bordeaux had not taken kindly to competition from what it dismissed as ‘ the hinterland ’ , and had even insisted at one point on Bergerac wines being shipped in smaller casks , thus forcing the Bergerac vignerons to pay more tax on their exports , the money being levied per cask . |
| 27 | The team of 28 medical , nursing and technical staff at Great Ormond Street , feared both children would be lost at one point in the operation . |
| 28 | and of course , you know , you er er you 'll get hold of all this as the more we do erm but you lost your way on the diagram by giving him too much I think and , and er the referrals you sort of lost at one point but you come back and reclaimed it did n't you ? |
| 29 | Quails are mentioned at one point , but this story is otherwise concerned with the gift of manna . |
| 30 | The prevalence of use of peptic ulcer drugs in the Danish population is described at two points in time using registrations of applications for reimbursement . |