Example sentences of "[verb] at the [adj] point " in BNC.

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1 The practitioner travels in all directions , executing various movements , with the final technique ending at the very point where he began .
2 This is achieved by adjusting the spacing between the words and characters as necessary so that each line of text finishes at the same point .
3 The wall can be found behind the Beran Filling Station , which lies at the highest point of the Bangor on Llanberis road ( B4547 ) , about 200 metres from the Deiniolen turn-off .
4 London lies at the last point where a Roman bridge could comfortably cross the Thames , where landborne traffic and ships from overseas could readily meet .
5 His security could still be threatened at the one point left vulnerable .
6 I am looking at the specific points that were made by the delegation to me earlier this month .
7 Everything going into the hole dust clouds , light beams , stars , spacecraft , you anything crossing the boundary sphere marking the edge of the hole — it gets crushed out of existence when it arrives at the central point of the hole . ’
8 But why stop to wonder at the very point where cause for wonder really begins ?
9 When these wagons arrived in the Underframe Shop they were unloaded at the required points or areas by hand-operated overhead travelling cranes in the ancillary bays , adjacent to the main workshop area .
10 If it is pushed at the wrong point of the swinging cycle , the motion is upset and it tends to stop .
11 There are special collar bosses or soil manifolds which enable a WC connection and a bath connection to be made at the same point on the soil stack .
12 A solar heating system consists of three main components : the solar panel , a feed-and-expansion cistern ( which must be positioned at the highest point of the system ) and the solar cylinder .
13 With correct positioning , to ensure the join came at the right point with the stairs , and a generous overlap , we could cut the correct angle through both .
14 My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face .
15 The most general would be a polynomial There is , however , an important assumption made here , that is , that both and are evaluated at the same point .
16 Look at the electrical points .
17 Judging by the two photographs , describe what changes one farmer has made in the system of inputs and outputs , shown at the three points marked Y on the systems diagram .
18 On goes the road in a series of turns and twists and interesting situations , with intriguing glimpses of the coast and the wide sweep of Eddrachillis Bay , and then the vast seascape is fully revealed as the road comes alongside the lovely Clashnessie Bay , bounded and sheltered in the west by a peninsula that thrusts far out to sea and ends at the rocky Point of Stoer .
19 But first , let's look at the main points from the regulations :
20 We have already mentioned the finale of Webern 's Symphony Op. 21 , with its eleven-bar theme , mirrored at the halfway point , followed in one continuous movement by seven variations and a coda ( all mirrored ) .
21 However , big is not always beautiful , and often having two smaller models which are used at the real point of use in a catering establishment can give greater flexibility and be more cost-effective .
22 I loved the programme and the people but I made the decision to leave at the right point , before I could grow bored . ’
23 The subsidiary section connected for such purpose is called a stub and the procedure renders the main line correctly terminated at the stubbing point .
24 Figure 5.11 The numbers stored in the memory banks shown in Figure 5.9 represent the intensity of the colour displayed at the equivalent point on the TV monitor screen .
25 The set-environment routine is then entered at the appropriate point .
26 For instrument approaches airfield QNH is to be used until approaching the Final Approach Fix or Final Approach Point , as appropriate , when QFE is to be set at the Initial Point and all flying in the visual circuit is to be conducted on QFE .
27 In an interview with La Stampa yesterday , Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA chief Carlo De Benedetti condemned the pervasive system of political corruption , which he says obligated Olivetti to pay bribes or lose contracts , as ‘ having reduced Italy to a state worse than the Third World ’ : he says that at the last shareholders meeting earlier this year , he had to deny any bribery because he could n't preview information to the shareholders that was intended for the legal authorities ; he says that facing the judges , he felt liberated from a weight — ‘ then I felt a sense of justice — it pleased me to be there , ’ noting that when the company decided that the demands of the postal service for slush funds became too extreme and Olivetti stopped paying , ‘ we did n't sell another machine to the Post — we had arrived at the absurd point where , if we did n't pay , we did n't work and the moment we quit paying , we did n't work any more ’ .
28 Idealised waveforms found at the various points in the filter network .
29 No two candidates will respond to questions in exactly the same way so you must keep a fair amount of flexibility in your approach — it would be wrong to stop a candidate from following up an interesting and potentially revealing answer simply because it is not coming at the designated point in your schedule .
30 On the other hand , the ordinary and the extraordinary seemed to coincide at the same point .
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