Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun pl] ' point " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Lancia and Toyota absent , the result did not affect the head of the drivers ' points table of the world series , which finishes with the Lombard RAC Rally next week . |
| 2 | It is worth speculating on whether , from the locals ' point of view , the proliferation of village organizations reflects not so much a flourishing of community life as a symbol of its downfall . |
| 3 | From the singers ' point of view , there was a condition that they should have a copy of the film for their private use . |
| 4 | He was able to track down a lot of detail about the original construction and decoration — so he could keep the design and get it back to what it was , but incorporate new features , like a Great Hall without all those pillars , which is much better from the customers ' point of view . " |
| 5 | However from the students ' point of view , the making of a video recording was the purpose of the exercise . |
| 6 | From the burghers ' point of view , his death was a serious blow , for it forced Louis VI to punish them . |
| 7 | It 's also very important from the adults ' point of view that erm it does n't matter if you are a so called single parent , which , I by the way , am , or whether you are within erm a couple but actually in in fact you 're , you 're a single parent because you 're getting no support . |
| 8 | It is also notable that where a chairman or chief executive has been brought in from outside to those organisations , this may be followed by many changes in senior management and so , from the headhunters ' point of view , putting a chief executive into an older-style organisation is usually an opportunity for them to work with the newly appointed chief executive to build the new senior management team . |
| 9 | From the parents ' point of view , it is equally related to all its offspring . |
| 10 | From the parents ' point of view , to go back to your original question about whether it 's good for children to be helped at home , of course it 's , it does n't make any sense to stop helping your child just because he 's reached the age of five . |
| 11 | Under the influence of excessive risk aversion managers are thus liable to cause the firm to grow to an inefficient size and to engage in other forms of behaviour which are sub-optimal from the shareholders ' point of view , such as making low dividend payouts and an inadequate use of the company 's borrowing capacity . |
| 12 | But when the problem is looked at from the miners ' point of view a rather different history comes into view . |
| 13 | It is a very common feature in the first questions drafted by students in schedule designing to ask questions which patently have not been thought about from the respondents ' point of view . |
| 14 | This combination , we feel , will provide a real test of the products ' value and ease of use — from the musicians ' point of view . |
| 15 | Since aid is becoming more , not less , important in Africa there is a crying need for a more outspoken analysis of the problem , not only from the recipients ' point of view , but by the recipients themselves . |
| 16 | A huge problem , though , from the conversationists ' point of view , is that it may not be in the interests of fishermen or whalers or hunters of ivory — or at least not in their financial interests — to achieve maximum sustainable yield . |
| 17 | The problem from the owners ' point of view had been solved . |
| 18 | These factories , which produced a range of goods from shoes to armour , brought in a regular profit for their owners , but the reliance on slave labour had disadvantages from the owners ' point of view ; the market for industrial goods was uncertain , and in slack times , when it was difficult to sell the products from the workshop , slaves still had to be fed and housed , even though their labour brought no immediate return for the owner . |
| 19 | In the current absence of information about problematic matters from the teachers ' point of view , one can only make assumptions based on impressions about the kind of issue that is uppermost in their minds . |
| 20 | From the employers ' point of view this harsh regime was made necessary by the nature of the work-force . |
| 21 | Pupils get to see the process from the employers ' point of view . |
| 22 | The most popular announcement — from the boys ' point of view at least — was that of an extra two days ' holiday to mark the Anniversary . |
| 23 | From the relatives ' point of view , it is usually an enormous relief to be able to label increasingly apparent peculiarities and emotional problems as ‘ illness ’ because illness is no one 's fault and families are , therefore , absolved from the guilt incurred by self-blame . |
| 24 | The purpose of this research is to assess the impact of the Data Protection Act from the users ' point of view , with particular reference to the small business . |
| 25 | From the cheetahs ' point of view the mean annual temperature does not get systematically better or worse as the years go by , except in so far as any change for a well-adapted animal is a change for the worse . |
| 26 | Evolutionary improvements in cheetah weaponry and tactics are , from the gazelles ' point of view , like a steady worsening of the climate , and they are tracked in the same kind of way . |
| 27 | The role of the zebra in the relationship seems too innocent and wronged to warrant the pejorative ‘ enemy ’ But individual zebras do everything in their power to resist being eaten by lions , and from the lions ' point of view this is making life harder for them . |
| 28 | From the producers ' point of view , it is the single most sought after ‘ grape variety ’ in the world , and right from Britain to Chile and New Zealand ( and even India ! ) more and more vineyards are being planted with it in preference to any other . |
| 29 | From the producers ' point of view , the powerfully addictive quality of sugar became an important asset , resulting in an almost infinitely elastic demand . |
| 30 | This chapter looks at life in a Home from the residents ' point of view , it includes : |