Example sentences of "point [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also , he said , ‘ already enough vehicular access points on to the common without more being introduced ’ he said . |
| 2 | Having started the match eight points down from the first leg , Hemel spent the first half apparently doing everything they could to double the deficit . |
| 3 | Johannesburg : Interest was minimal and the market closed weaker , with the general index 19 points down at 2,710 . |
| 4 | London share prices closed slightly lower , recouping early losses which sent the FT-SE 100 Index of leading shares 31.7 points down on fears of recession . |
| 5 | By the close , the index was just 4.5 points down at 2,277.1 . |
| 6 | At one stage the FTSE was more than 14 points down in reaction to predictions about Government borrowing . |
| 7 | But by the close of business , with the Chancellor still speaking , it was just 3.1 points down at 2919.3 . |
| 8 | His score of 568 points out of 600 was only seven points down on first position , which was taken by R Jones of Racketts Archery Club , with T Preston of Braintree Archery club second . |
| 9 | The plane 's nose points down . |
| 10 | Laverne points down the bank on the other side of the road . |
| 11 | My target was 13 , so we are now 2 points down . |
| 12 | The big challenge came from everybody 's favourite Ginny Leng … she was riding Welton Romance and after racing around the 28 fence course was just two penalty points down from the leader … less than once fault in the showjumping … |
| 13 | The cherry and whites were just two points short of victory at Leicester last saturday … they fought back from ten points down with 13 men … |
| 14 | The crowd generously greeted David Baird 's consolation try , which came when they were already 70 points down . |
| 15 | They encountered no difficulties en route , although they had to traverse one of the most dangerous ambush points in all South Scotland , at Pease Dean , where the Lammermuirs came directly down to the coast in steep wooded slopes cut up by deep ravines , and round which travellers had to wend their narrow , devious way . |
| 16 | There is no need to twist the gripper or alter the direction the torch points in , and the gripper should most certainly not be opened . |
| 17 | The examples all have the same structure : a well-defined quantity is recorded at successive equally-spaced time points over a specific period . |
| 18 | According to Eric Partridge 's Dictionary of Catch Phrases , the phrase ‘ over the left shoulder ! ’ negates ‘ one 's own or another 's statement and indicates derisive disbelief , the thumb being sometimes pointed over that shoulder … |
| 19 | Mr Gilligrew seems ideally cut out to be leader of a protest group : insecure , loud , unhumorous , indignant , unpleasant , small and much given to counting points off on his fingers . |
| 20 | It was 42 points off at its nadir . |
| 21 | Milan : Shares ended weaker but above their lows , with the MIB seven points off at 1,164 . |
| 22 | The FT-SE 100 index of leading shares dropped 42 points to 2,270 on the announcement of the base rate increase to 15 per cent , but rallied and closed on Thursday only 30.5 points off at 2,281.6 . |
| 23 | To condemn the movies was not only to condemn the masses , but to score a few debating points off Americans . |
| 24 | Equally , why is it not pointed up that philanthropic murder and the Napoleonic idea and all other theorizing come unstuck here ? |
| 25 | Christie 's had pointed up the stylistic similarity of the putti to those found in some of Rysbrack 's , tomb sculpture . |
| 26 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 27 | Investigations in New Zealand have pointed up the complexity and variability of white orientations towards the entitlements of Maoris within the policy ( Wetherell and Potter , 1988 ) . |
| 28 | The fact that Mustakimzade is clearly at a loss about Abdulkerim is further pointed up in his article about the following Mufti , Molla Arab . |
| 29 | pointed up the risk that the panel may have to respond to shareholders demands to make the company spend money on more external work : ‘ While most shareholders will act responsibly , anybody who has attended an AGM knows there will always be someone with a bee in his or her bonnet . ’ |
| 30 | Although their public language is guarded , the Americans have pointed up the Belgian and Irish beef industries as examples of general hormone abuse . |