Example sentences of "[adv] at [adj] point [conj] " in BNC.
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1 | Yeah , erm , we , we thought we 'd got him calmed down at one point and he started up again and he was like that right the way up till I went to fetch Emily |
2 | Most conductors just sit down at that point and , beyond making sure that the orchestra kept up with the stage , leave the music to its own devices . |
3 | It was only at that point that we felt confident that the field-worker was being talked to by respondents as a person rather than as some novel sex object , and the veracity of what they said could be treated by us with more confidence . |
4 | Furthermore , we are assuming that the absence of latent heat and a change in specific volume is true not only at one point but along a finite part of the ( p , T ) diagram . |
5 | It is only at this point that we come to the central theme , the reason why all those who wish to understand the problem of drugs in sport should read this book . |
6 | It is only at this point that the style gets locked in . |
7 | It is only at this point that the newspaper reader learns that the rapist and the victim had been next door neighbours at the time of the original offence . |
8 | It was only at this point that CNN complied with the restraining order and ceased broadcasting excerpts from the tapes pending an appeal to the Supreme Court . |
9 | The process can be modelled by taking a balloon filled with water and pushing a finger in at one point until it touches the other side . |
10 | Martin and Chase nodded , Bunny buried his head into Santa 's neck and Trippy yelled , ‘ A wise decision , Cap'n Smollett , ’ and struck up Jingle Bells with us all joining in at some point or another . |
11 | The ladies ' K4 500m was slotted in at this point and although Dallaway/Davey/Eastwood/Thorogood were 8th in their heat they went into a semi final which acted as a repêchage . |
12 | I keep hammering away at this point but it applies to so many areas and it 's so rarely done . |
13 | Wallace looked menacing and was through at one point when Burrows hacked him down ( the scouser should have been sent off for that and a clear ‘ professional foul ’ in the second half against Deane ) . |
14 | Incidentally it is just at this point that I find many theologians who enter this field particularly weak ; mainly because what they deduce from a Biblical view is so general ( and sometimes even vague ) that it is of little practical help in choosing between the main alternatives of the world today . |
15 | Breeze , who was reading the letter aloud — it was addressed jointly to Gay and herself — broke off at this point and frowned . |
16 | The temptation for teachers to cut off at this point and move on to something easier and less controversial is great , but the real value of RE lies in following the development through . |
17 | Wetherall was up at one point and had two shots blocked before coming back for a third and putting the ball in the net . |
18 | and so land reform was no longer seen as a means to achieve their end that they that and that it was n't the best policy to consolidate power , it was you needed to have the mass support there first so that 's why land reform was no longer seen as their goal so they did n't take it up at this point when one would expect them to pursue it . |
19 | It is extremely important that you do not give up at this point and this is where training really begins . |
20 | What may happen is that the returning reflected stress waves repeatedly meet the outgoing ones at some critical or unlucky point and thus the stress may pile up at this point until fracture occurs . |
21 | I mean you get to this stage where a certain age you can say no you 're not having it because they 've got to start to grow up at some point and she likes using the felt tips and she 's usually not too bad with them |
22 | In any conversation , ‘ what is being talked about ’ will be judged differently at different points and the participants themselves may not have identical views of what each is talking about . |
23 | 1.2 It is tempting at this point to plunge straight into an account of the adjectival system and how it produces such results as those above ; and in fact we should state clearly at this point that readers who prefer to build up the picture piece by piece , assessing the validity of the connexion between data and theory by starting from the evidential end , may pass immediately to Chapter 2 without any disadvantage . |
24 | The young man with the terrible toothache — Harrison — had sought her out and , clumsily but resolutely , he had told her that he intended to leave the quarries , go back to his father 's farm , assess what his prospects were there and then come back and … his resolution had run out at that point but the aim was clear . |
25 | I suppose this is erm , a caricature , a self portrait this little , I , in fact I was , really actually hilarious as I felt that , I , I , do n't actually know an awful lot about Gaugin , but if , if I knew nothing about him at all , I would of thought he was having a bit of joke of himself with this , but er , being the person that he was I ca n't image that he had that quality , that , I do n't believe he would be laughing at himself , erm , erm , the symbolism erm and conflict of this painting its dazzles me more than , than the colour or at least as much as the colours in it , but there 's a , there 's a half eaten , well it is n't half eaten , but there 's half an apple at the top and , and that was the , the way into me finally , for , for writing about this , this again is a shopping list , I call it a shopping list , this is just visual images that , that will be opened out at some point and turn it into something , and my images were erm Shoulders of the matador smoking snakes , dare to bit an apple , see one half gone and still I wear a halo intact , that I 'm sure I 've completely wrong about him as a , a person , but as the painting that 's obviously something else , erm , I found that one of the things that were he 's , I , I think probably that everybody who writes is that you 'll come to a point when you ca n't write , you stop writing , you have n't got anything you want to write about , or your frightened of writing , and I devise exercises so that , that does n't happened to me , I think writing is like any skill you have to keep doing it to be able to do it , its , you , some of it is a game and the rest of it is hard work , and one of the exercises I , I delighted using erm a portrait of a woman erm , its about erm the er still life , its the back one , yes this one here , I have , I , I hope to use this as a writing exercise I found the , the maths in this and the colour of the piece of fruit in the background , very interesting because most of the colours to me seem a , a lot less vibrant then many of his other paintings , and so they , they attracted me and have a , a strong sense of erm , er a hidden desire in that and so it , to use it as a writing exercise which I intend doing , it will be able about a situation of character 's with erm something that 's hidden , some desire , I do n't , the , not even spoke about to themselves or , or generally , erm I like to sort of say that came from those two little , just this amounts of colour which seemed to be saying such a lot |
26 | As it deepened to the random of the East Shaft top landing station a connecting tunnel was driven between the two and sinking debris was now brought out at this point and tipped on the fellside . |
27 | It was really at that point that the industrial factory was born . |
28 | Not exactly , if only because it is precisely at this point that Volpone shows how the normal is parasitic upon the perverse . |
29 | Yet it is precisely at this point that students — afraid of boring us with repetition — ; search for new material , abandoning their first ideas perhaps for the rest of the piece . |
30 | Nearby at this point and reached by going up the road to a path bearing right , is the dark and intimidating Birkwith Cave , a strong debouching stream denying easy access . |