Example sentences of "[verb] at [det] point [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | The drop down from Meall Corranaich and back up to Beinn Ghlas was a great deal more substantial than I would have wished at this point in the walk , keeping in mind that I was hallucinating from the effort of the chase and the subsequent lack of oxygen managing to get anywhere near my lungs via a mouth full of clenched teeth . |
2 | Whereas a bottom-up or data-driven system such as HWIM can hypothesize any of the 1,000 or so items in its lexicon at the beginning of the utterance , HARPY can only hypothesize those words permitted at that point by the grammar . |
3 | Clearly , the mill was largely rebuilt at some point in the 19th century , the brick-built section tying into the much older stone range . |
4 | It is included at this point on the grounds that its central focus is on the meanings and understandings that people use to make sense of their everyday lives . |
5 | The ball may be dropped at any point along this line . |
6 | But the horizon no longer has any black skies , and it looks more forgiving than it has at any point until now . |
7 | The dumplings can be frozen at this point until ready to use . |
8 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
9 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |
10 | Here the actual process of perception by the audience is less important than the knowledge resulting from perception which the playwright wants the audience to receive at this point in the play . |
11 | We 're not looking at that point of view we 're looking at more like working together to find a solution . |
12 | Do you feel at this point in time that it 's all been worth it ? |
13 | A question that has still not been answered at any point during the debate was asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham ( Mr. Walden ) : what happens if the other countries go ahead without us ? |
14 | Mention should be made at this point of a responsibility of the Chemical Products business which is outside of the mainstream . |
15 | However , there are one or two qualifications which must be made at this point with respect to the human sciences . |
16 | The Cambridge Group for the Study of Population and Social Structure ( CAMPOP ) have shown that in seventy communities where total lists of inhabitants were made at some point between the late sixteenth and the early nineteenth century the proportion of householders who were widowed was about 1:5 ; at Clayworth ( Notts. ) in 1688 it was higher than 1:4 . |
17 | Children are not unfamiliar with situations in which they tell , or are told , what someone else said or thought ; or in which they tell what they themselves said or thought at some point in the past or think at the time of speaking . |
18 | So we have put a marker in the ground and said we are not going to move forward in the production investment phase until we are satisfied that we have a fixed price at that point so we are actually going to cap our liabilities for Eurofighter with a max price for the whole of the remainder of the programme and then we will fix the price and hopefully get some economies from fixing at that point in time before we move forward into the next phase . |
19 | If at any point it is bought by a non-registered person the VAT is not recoverable , but must be added on again if the vehicle is sold at some point in the future by a registered person . |
20 | Grids may be stained at any point after drying ( some grids have been stained a year or more after preparation ) . |
21 | It is this conception of uneven and combined development , in which the whole may be growing at some point in time , but within that overall growth there will be sectors in decline . |
22 | Were it possible for a further donation to be agreed at some point during 1993 , I should be most grateful . |
23 | As has been shown above , the movement denoted by to can be intercepted at some point before its term to evoke a support at some remove from the position occupied by the representation of person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event , thus giving rise to the impression which we have called " subsequent potentiality " ( He struggled to get free ) . |
24 | John 's obsession for uniformity was thwarted at this point as the experience of the older Girls always showed in their eye make-up . |
25 | If x and y are variables , then unc denotes the result of substituting x for every free occurrence of y in P. If x is bound at any point in P where there is a free y , systematic renaming of P's bound variables is carried out . |
26 | Up the long slow hill from Sherborne , over the main Oxford to Bath road , there are bleak , windswept wolds , flat as a pancake , crossed at this point by a narrow and perfectly straight road . |
27 | These phases need not occur in this order ; objections may be raised during presentation , or during negotiation or a trial close may be attempted at any point during the presentation if buyer interest is high . |
28 | The Bill should be supported , but unless a much more determined attack on the problem , and its roots , is launched , we shall , I fear , have to address at some point in the future an even more hideous nightmare than that which confronts us now . |
29 | His riveting address , in which he lucidly , brilliantly demolished the moral authority of the outgoing US regime and urged his audience of ‘ young Americans ’ to come alive , could have been ( and probably was ) delivered at any point during the campaign . |
30 | Now note I 'm not asking at this point in time for a general opening . |