Example sentences of "[verb] at [num] point [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile the Government tries to deny there 's a problem — apparently Thatcher even claimed at one point that no untreated sewage goes into British seas . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I always knew it probably could n't last because nothing goes on forever , but in that time , I had a great time in New York , and it seemed at one point that everyone was there when David was doing the week at the Universal Amphitheatre . |
| 5 | One is to telephone , or write to her beforehand , saying that things have been so hectic at your end recently that it seemed at one point that you might have to postpone your visit for a week or two , but that you are so keen to see her that you are absolutely determined to ‘ make it ’ somehow , even if it has to be just a ‘ flying visit ’ . |
| 6 | ( Indeed , Conservative leader Stanley Baldwin commented at one point that the United States Constitution had broken down and was giving way to dictatorship . ) |
| 7 | For example , the worker may pause at one point and scratch his nose , this may indicate that a critical decision is being made or it may indicate simply that his nose was itching . |
| 8 | 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 ) . |
| 9 | It was even proposed at one point that the reef itself should simply be drenched in copper . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Indeed the British hoped at one point that they would be able to act as a partner of the United States in the recovery programme . |
| 12 | Olson , for instance , does admit at one point that all we can really be sure of is that some academics have made claims for objectivity while the question of assessing those claims is a different matter : |
| 13 | Once they got there , however , they found the police would not allow them onto the tarmac with the welcoming VIPs and it looked at one point as though they were not going to get any pictures . |
| 14 | I think at one point that the cash flow figure of fourteen point three million appeared . |
| 15 | finished at one point but it 's veneered |
| 16 | He had hardly left the office when he built this , his first house as an independent architect , but later was embarrassed by it , and said at one point that he never wanted to see it or hear about it again , and that no architect should be allowed to build a house before he was forty . |
| 17 | and of course , you know , you er er you 'll get hold of all this as the more we do erm but you lost your way on the diagram by giving him too much I think and , and er the referrals you sort of lost at one point but you come back and reclaimed it did n't you ? |
| 18 | The hon. Gentleman pointed out that the soldier returned at one point when Mrs. X and her husband were still at the base . |