Example sentences of "[to-vb] [det] point [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It fails to put forward any options for accept for erm , equal rights , for disability or race , and we think this is an omission , and if it were your intention to write a response , we would want to include that point in the response we make . |
| 2 | He is optimistic enough to see some point in directing , harnessing or tempering the largely commercial forces behind the 100-mile city , but not in ignoring them . |
| 3 | The figures in the table above seem to confirm this point of view . |
| 4 | A good lawyer , who reads carefully , ponders meanings and is prepared to discuss difficulties , might be able to see this point in the problem even though he had read nothing upon it . |
| 5 | Doubts have repeatedly been expressed on the authenticity of Nasica 's speech in the Roman Senate to support this point of view . |
| 6 | It is interesting to connect this point with Leapor 's ‘ An Epistle to a Lady ’ ; as Leapor contemplates her own death , and the soul leaving the body , the last thing she wishes to see is her friend : ‘ Be you the last that leaves my closing Eyes [ ML , 1 , 40 ] . |
| 7 | While Engels attempts to meet this point by stating that ‘ the government of persons is replaced by the administration of things ’ the meaning still remains unclear . |
| 8 | But to reach that point in our dealings with others a great deal needs to have taken place within us . |
| 9 | That it has been possible to reach this point in the book without describing the signs of insanity in detail is a measure of their universality and of the fact that most of us have an intuitive understanding of their general quality . |
| 10 | It is certainly interesting for specialists to see this odd and disagreeable picture , whose attribution was upheld by Roberto Longhi , but it is difficult to detect any point of contact between it and the other exhibits assigned to Giorgione at Palazzo Grassi . |
| 11 | I 'm not against anyone trying to help put youngsters straight , but people like Deanes never want to hear any point of view but their own . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend might like to put that point to the Select Committee on Catering . |
| 13 | But I want to put another point of view . |
| 14 | Although it may be beneficial to address this point at this stage rather than leave it to the flotation , the alternative argument is that such matters can only be decided at the time of flotation when the parties are better able to assess what is commercially necessary to achieve an optimum result . |
| 15 | Er do you want to pursue any point on that ? |
| 16 | There was the time , too , when her refusal to recognize any point in the purchase of a most promising yearling had both distressed and exasperated him . |
| 17 | It was contended by the Crown that the holder of a justice 's licence , which by virtue of his appointment as tenant the appellant might have been able to obtain , was the holder of an ‘ office ’ within the meaning of the Act ; but this court did not find it necessary to decide that point on the facts of the case . |
| 18 | Exercise 11.4 has been set to demonstrate this point with time series . |
| 19 | The Privy Council refused to decide this point in Chan Man-sin , where the accused assumed the rights of the owner by drawing on the account . |
| 20 | I dare to present this point of view because I believe it is not just my little pipe-dream . |
| 21 | It 's very important to become quicker , smoother in your movement , to bend down low or to be able to jump up high in order for you to get this point of contact . |
| 22 | It may turn out that the distinctive features of a causal story associated with semantic content are precisely those that require the language of belief , desire and intention , in order for their isolation to have any point within the overall causal explanation of what happens when the speaker communicates with another . |
| 23 | His comment shows , say his critics , that Chapman 's aim was to defend that point at all costs — he was thus a defensive-minded manager who set a bad example for football . |
| 24 | I mean you could say in this situation the stag was doing it for the benefit of the species but er you do n't need to er you do n't need to take that point of view . |
| 25 | To make that point in another way , in terms of tradition , it is striking , when you come to Shakespeare 's after a reading of other Renaissance sonnets , to note the absence of proper names . |
| 26 | the highest ideal in The Balcony is for characters to attain that point of social definition at which others desire to impersonate them . |
| 27 | Audrey can I can I just ask you to make this point about this . |
| 28 | Development agencies are well placed to make this point with the authority of people trying to get a job done . |
| 29 | Hence the importance of Eve Sedgwick 's category of the homosocial : we must insist that there are different kinds of masculine heterosexual alliance that are not necessarily ( though may be ) homosexual , repressed or overt ; but we also need to make this point in a way which does not then privilege this distinction between the sexual and the non-sexual since this is to re-establish the primacy of the sexual , something partly responsible for the original misrepresentation . |
| 30 | While all the studies used for this paper do not attain this ideal , the effort to articulate material that is not readily available through more conventional studies of workers ' images of society , for instance , may serve to make some point in the social landscape between the ‘ centres ’ of workers ' and managers ' worlds and that of social scientists . |