Example sentences of "point in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shows put on in Paris at the Salon , and in London at the Royal Academy , were a means of creating sales for artists at a turning point in the history of patronage ; as there developed a middle-class market for literature , so there developed a comparable market for art . |
| 2 | A high point in the novel is the altercation and huff with Gavin and his mates which precedes this : about the long holidays teachers get , or do n't get , about the homework they withhold , and about the rights of weans — children — and the rights of parents . |
| 3 | Rigidity of approach is something to be avoided at all costs — there is no point in being able to do a ‘ party piece ’ one way and be unable to take in new direction on the same material . |
| 4 | If you have done any class work before attempting the drama school audition , most of the teachers will at some point in their sessions have talked about ‘ relaxation ’ . |
| 5 | It is up to each one of us , he wrote , at every point in our lives , to decide how much order and how much disorder , how much discipline and how much freedom we need for the best realization of our project of the moment , even though that project may turn out to be flawed or even utterly mistaken in the short run , of course I am only talking about the short run , he wrote , in the long run , as I have already said , both success and failure are quite without meaning , the notion of meaning is quite without meaning . |
| 6 | No point in not being ambitious . |
| 7 | There is a point in everyone 's life , he wrote , when all caution must , as they say , be thrown to the winds , all doubts stilled , when the most extreme risks have to be taken . |
| 8 | I told you , I said to him , I suddenly did n't see any point in it . |
| 9 | There was no point in going on then . |
| 10 | I suddenly decided I did n't see any point in submitting them , I said . |
| 11 | There comes a point in every project , he wrote , when you are tired of beating your head against the wall . |
| 12 | Letter from Goldberg , he wrote , but no point in replying . |
| 13 | Yesterday he rang the bell for a long time but no point in opening the door . |
| 14 | No point in replying . |
| 15 | ‘ Real ale ’ became a major talking point in pubs and the media . |
| 16 | Fortunately , most of the crowd had been drawn to the main attraction of The Great Whirlo in the Variety Tent at that particular point in the afternoon . |
| 17 | I remember looking him straight in the eye at this point in order to try and fathom the motives behind his proposal . |
| 18 | However , at this new point in my life there seemed — as of course there was — nothing remarkable about what I was doing . |
| 19 | There seemed to be no real point in arguing with her . |
| 20 | If there is not enough room to get down straight ahead , obviously a turn has to be made regardless of the height ; there is no point in flying on into wind and losing valuable height and space ahead . |
| 21 | There is no point in reading the ASI and knowing that you are too slow unless you lower the nose to correct it . |
| 22 | It is very common — more than half the women in this country suffer from cystitis at some point in their lives . |
| 23 | And as Mary Douglas ( 1973 : 15 ) had pointed out , ‘ if we can not bring the argument back from tribal ethnography to ourselves , then there is little point in starting it at all ’ . |
| 24 | Like Douglas , I see no point in setting up a false theoretical dichotomy between ‘ us ’ , and ‘ them ’ , creating separate realms and polarities of modern and archaic thought , for I anticipate my inclusion of the concept of self can help link the tribalism which haunts the police defensiveness to an understanding of their ‘ modern ’ beliefs , modes of thought , and action . |
| 25 | Leach ( 1977 ) has shown the ephemerality which lies in any attempt to classify deviance on a global scale ; for what is criminal in one society or at one point in time is relative to that time and place and to who holds the discourse on power . |
| 26 | After all , what 's the point in taking part in a competitive event if the result is to confirm how ineffectual you are ? |
| 27 | Similarly , if you advance with a rapid sequence of punches , there is little point in throwing a kick unless the opponent has back-pedalled faster than you have advanced . |
| 28 | In ‘ Goodnight Irene ’ , the latter had an outstanding hit , a key point in the development from traditional folk to modern in 1950 . |
| 29 | Regrettably , he makes the same point in his brilliant collection of causeries In Defence Of Art , gathered together by his wife Aileen , in 1988 , when he links Susan Musgrave 's ‘ inner nightmares ’ to Leonard 's ‘ early poetry ’ . |
| 30 | There was no point in denying the truth . |