Example sentences of "[is] [adv] at [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only at this point that we come to the central theme , the reason why all those who wish to understand the problem of drugs in sport should read this book . |
| 2 | It is only at this point that the style gets locked in . |
| 3 | It is only at this point that the newspaper reader learns that the rapist and the victim had been next door neighbours at the time of the original offence . |
| 4 | The investigator is not at this point investigating how the child learns to program the computer although he shall be doing so at a later date . |
| 5 | Incidentally it is just at this point that I find many theologians who enter this field particularly weak ; mainly because what they deduce from a Biblical view is so general ( and sometimes even vague ) that it is of little practical help in choosing between the main alternatives of the world today . |
| 6 | The difference between an enduring faith and a nominal faith is largely at this point . |
| 7 | The pound is up at one point seven nine dollars , and down against the Deutchmark two point eight four marks . |
| 8 | Not exactly , if only because it is precisely at this point that Volpone shows how the normal is parasitic upon the perverse . |
| 9 | Yet it is precisely at this point that students — afraid of boring us with repetition — ; search for new material , abandoning their first ideas perhaps for the rest of the piece . |