Example sentences of "[verb] at a [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet pragmatics tends only to examine how meaning develops at a given point . |
| 2 | Good d Good does in fact do what you said and his recommendation er for final salary schemes is er a third of the trustees should be or have the right to be er from the , the members and er er we 've in our er comments to you have er looked at a global point of view and said no not are these proposals worthy in themselves , but using a different criteria that if they had been law as Ken said earlier , would they have stopped Maxwell and a situation where a third of the trustees were er were they members er would have made no difference er cos typically in our cases there were originally about four trustees er and unfortunately for us , three of them were named Maxwell . |
| 3 | They allow desktop objects to be collected at a single point and emulate a paper notebook , displaying pages on the screen . |
| 4 | A + mistake may be made at a single point or a length of DNA may become temporarily dislocated and be reinserted in the wrong place . |
| 5 | On this model of organic relationships , the lower animals are merely immature versions of humankind : they develop along the same scale but mature at an earlier point in the process . |
| 6 | Look at a particular point on the wall in front of you and try to relax . |
| 7 | As the blades only meet at a single point when cutting , they retain their sharpness for a lifetime of use . |
| 8 | The parallels of the extreme behaviourist and the extreme hereditarian meet at a finite point and join hands in mystic union , like the snake with its tail in its mouth , welded together by the acetylene torch of commitment to one approach and one answer to a multitude of questions . |
| 9 | Do they have sexist , ageist or racist attitudes that might emerge at a critical point in your work together ? |
| 10 | By integrating this last equation from r to infinity the time interval measured at a remote point where the gravitational potential is negligible can be compared with the same time interval measured at r : Re-expressing this result in terms of the gravitational potential gives . |
| 11 | This convention requires careful interpretation for local vectors , i.e. vectors measured at a given point in space . |
| 12 | It would sound odd to put this description into the past tense , with " described " and " constructed " , unless you were deliberately emphasising the the fact that this book was produced at a particular point in the past , for example in order to compare it explicitly with a book written more recently . |
| 13 | ‘ You mean , if you cut that picture up into four — which would be a distinctly pro-life act if you want my opinion and gave it to four different restorers , they 'd each stop at a different point ? ’ |
| 14 | The group is invited to start at a common point : response to a specific trigger — a research quote , a statement about opinions to be completed , a range of factors to be ranked for importance , a role play . |
| 15 | Since we shall have to be content with inexact knowledge we will not insist that our electron is to be found at a definite point but simply require that it is localised within an interval of space of length Ax . |
| 16 | It may need no more than a discussion session , or a change of emphasis introduced at an appropriate point to allow this to be covered . |
| 17 | Such patterns may be the result of Sisyphean fitness and not represent irreversible tendencies to speciation , i.e. the formation of ‘ populations ’ of plant genotypes , representing the best available to arrive at a particular point under the prevailing biotic and physical features at any one particular time . |
| 18 | Some of them will be answered in the lecture but those that are not should be asked at an appropriate point . |
| 19 | Alternatives Basic dome — the three pole dome has three poles that cross at a central point . |
| 20 | On the Red Hall estate on Tuesday he was taking his orders from Coun. Sonia Willans standing at a central point while the other members radiated out . |
| 21 | A flush door will have a block of wood inserted at a convenient point so there 's something solid to cut into . |
| 22 | But , given an interest in attitude change , a survey taken at a single point in time is not very useful , for no matter how carefully chosen , one sample will fail to capture changes . |
| 23 | Students may be placed at a particular point in the range of modules depending on their competence profile . |
| 24 | Railways are a type of transport that fall easily under central control , and whose construction may even intensify political centralism , because of the rationality of disposing lines so as to converge at a central point . |
| 25 | The prevalence of a state is defined as the proportion of a population so categorized at a given point of time regardless of when those affected entered the state . |
| 26 | The futures index for June settlement ended at a 29 point premium , 7 points above ‘ fair value ’ . |
| 27 | Because it is conducted at a particular point in the year , the spring , the LFS can not be used to investigate seasonal variations in the size or structure of the temporary workforce . |
| 28 | Despite expressions of indignation by members of the Republican Party , Perot maintained his claim and promised to provide proof of the dirty tricks campaign at a later point . |
| 29 | The respondent 's answers constitute the raw material to be analysed at a later point in time . |
| 30 | Given the tension here was one of humiliation , that can be sufficient in itself to sustain the momentum , especially as this workhouse scene comes at a critical point in the sequence structure — for they have already in an earlier lesson experienced the well-intentioned caring of the ‘ lady ’ who housed these girls out of pity but was obliged to hand them over to the authorities . |