Example sentences of "[vb -s] at [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yours will most probably be the arms she needs at this point , and the best thing you can do for her is to show that you share her grief , and that as far as possible you are going to be the rock on which she can lean while the sands of her life are shifting so frighteningly beneath her feet . |
| 2 | But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now . |
| 3 | Inflation 's fallen again to a new thirty year low , and now stands at one point two percent , down from one point three percent . |
| 4 | It 's because payments are automatically linked to inflation , which now stands at one point eight per cent . |
| 5 | The number of people unemployed has risen for the twenty-second month in a row , the figure now stands at two point six , five million . |
| 6 | What matters at this point is to see the importance for faith and doubt which this claim implies . |
| 7 | As Geoffrey le Bel said in the preamble to one of his charters , ‘ whatever happens at one point of time will scarcely ever reach the next generation in a reliable and true account unless it is committed to writing . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Only another tactful and understanding silence suffices at this point . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Naked I was sent back ’ , he says at one point ( recalling the story of Scyld ) , but he does not say who sent him . |
| 10 | In The Lord of the Rings it can be expressed by such high-status characters as Faramir , who says at one point that he does not hope to see Frodo ever again , but nevertheless invents a picture of them in an unknown future ‘ sitting by a wall in the sun , laughing at grief ’ . |
| 11 | Though Bede says at one point that Oswiu also made tributary the Scots ( of Dál Riata ) ( HE II , 5 ) , there is no direct evidence for this . |
| 12 | erm yo I mean he says at one point , as a positive statement , he thinks , that he bend , he 's bending his nature out of its natural course |
| 13 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 14 | As far as I can read her argument , it is precisely this which allows recognition of it to model our human position as suspended between , as she says at another point , unconditioned actor … and conditioned agent . " |
| 15 | However , since Osred 's reign began in 705 , no further dislocation of Northumbrian chronology occurs at this point . |
| 16 | Intersection of this load line with the characteristic occurs at some point O representing the operating bias , of the nonlinear network . |
| 17 | When he has shot and eaten his final prisoner , he begins to worry what he will do for food ; but fortunately a seaplane arrives at this point and rescues him . |
| 18 | The funds do not merely guarantee you will get the full rise in the index over the period you have chosen ; they also ensure you get the highest bid price that the fund achieves at any point while the investment is running . |
| 19 | During his European peregrinations in the 1970s , Winters at one point met up with Marcel Broodthaers in Paris . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is as well the Guide Book ends at this point as he was then wondering , if further accommodation was needed when the fulfilment of the first scheme was achieved , about ‘ approaches to many other favourite points of vision on side grounds or from the tops of mountains , ought next to engage the attention of the subscribers . ’ |
| 21 | The discussion frequently ends at this point , but the response either way should be recorded . |
| 22 | He recognises at one point that claims for the ‘ intrinsically greater objectivity of written language ’ in literate culture may derive from socially constructed beliefs about what literacy can achieve ( 1982 ) . |
| 23 | If management policy is changed prior to privatization , the present value of future profits rises at this point , and it is this that is the source of improvement to the public finances , not the subsequent change of ownership . |
| 24 | There seems at this point to be disagreement among the regulationists , with some hypothesizing that the decentralization within Britain was the beginning of a new phase of ( neo-Fordist ) accumulation ( Aglietta , 1979 ; Dunford , Geddes and Perrons , 1981 ) , while others ( Martin , 1988 ; Marshall , 1987 ) clearly see it as an attempt to use geographical restructuring to prolong the life of Fordism . |
| 25 | Eccleshall himself implicitly acknowledges this problem , for he notes at one point that Thatcherism 's characteristics — ‘ its mixture of abrasively theoretical market economics , uncompromising anti-egalitarianism and fervent patriotism ’ — are hardly ‘ the ingredients of what Oakeshottians judge to be authentic Conservatism ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ I had 24 shock treatments when I was 17 , ’ he notes at one point . |
| 27 | ‘ You can not make peace with dictators , you have to destroy them , ’ Nelson asserts at one point for the benefit of inattentive members of the audience . |
| 28 | KITCHENS SINGER Patrick Fitzgerald has a way with egotistical comments : ‘ Our tour manager 's fallen right down-to-earth , ’ he beams at one point during tonight 's proceedings . |
| 29 | But as a case for a ‘ radical extension ’ of industrial democracy by means requiring the assumption by unreformed trade unions of rights which had hitherto attached only to ownership , it merits at this point no more than a suspended judgment at best . |
| 30 | But that means at some point they may actually go below it . |