Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [art] point [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , as Ladbrokes shortened Nashwan 's odds for next Sunday 's Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe from 2-1 to 7-4 with a run , French Glory came down a point to 7-1 amid rumours that Pat Eddery would switch to him from Khalid Abdullah 's other probable runner , Assatis . |
| 2 | And Newcastle 's manager rammed home the point by insisting that no British club could afford Tyneside 's new Gazza , 20-year-old midfield talent Lee Clark . |
| 3 | The appeals raised originally a point of interpretation of the statutory provisions governing the valuation of benefits for the purpose of income tax under Schedule E , in particular , the interpretation and application to the facts found of section 63(1) and ( 2 ) of the Finance Act 1976 . |
| 4 | But North himself , on the point of abandoning the operation , begging to be moved on ‘ to other things ’ , made plain the point of everything that had gone before : ‘ Wd very much like to give RR two hostages that he can take credit for . ’ |
| 5 | Tate saw clearly the point at issue : ‘ Mr Eliot 's critics are a little less able each year to see the poetry for Westminster Abbey ; the wood is all trees ’ . |
| 6 | Solowka remembers band discussions turning into arguments because Charman took almost every point as a personal attack on himself . |
| 7 | Winston Churchill , that most remarkable of Home Secretaries , summed up the point with characteristic eloquence : |
| 8 | After lifting the European Formula Three crown in 1979 , he was offered a position alongside John Watson in the McLaren Formula One team for 1980 and he picked up a point on his debut in the Argentine Grand Prix . |
| 9 | The Edinburgh Evening News picked up the point during the dispute and commented that " the old story of the men 's dislike to machinery appears in this dispute just as it was with the engineers " , 25 Whatever the reason or reasons , the men 's unwillingness to handle the machines led directly to the situation of the late 1900s in which Edinburgh master printers were trying to counter the threat of London and southern firms by combining both the employment of women and the use of machines , thus posing a double threat of a new kind to the male compositor , and inspiring a more determined resistance from the latter than had been seen during the previous thirty-odd years . |