Example sentences of "a single point " in BNC.
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| 1 | The aggravation did not seem to upset Jansher yesterday as he conceded only a single point to Frank Ellis as the title holders , Pakistan , started the world team championships here yesterday with a 3-0 win over Scotland . |
| 2 | The Tayside men hold an advantage of a single point over their well-heeled Glaswegian rivals , and they traditionally fare well on visits to Govan . |
| 3 | Although it can take a panoply of four-dimensional shapes , Dr Tipler prefers it to be a single point ; in the manner of the 20th-century Catholic evolutionist and mystic , Teilhard de Chardin , he calls it the omega point . |
| 4 | A single point view , without moving eye or head , restricts the vanishing point of diagonals of the square grid to a maximum range of 3.5:1 . |
| 5 | Those two goals made sure of a victory that carries Leeds back above Manchester United by a single point . |
| 6 | The work of Diggle et al. ( 1990 ) examined only a single point source , though it generalizes to multiple sources and to linear hazards as well . |
| 7 | Along the inferior border of the mandible may be seen the roseate shaped groups of grooves that occur when the rodent anchors its lower jaw on one side of the mandible and pivots against this with its upper jaw to produce a series of grooves converging downwards to a single point . |
| 8 | Edgware lead the Division Three table by a single point from Tilbury whose 2–1 win against Hornchurch preserved their unbeaten home record . |
| 9 | As the blades only meet at a single point when cutting , they retain their sharpness for a lifetime of use . |
| 10 | Elio de Angelis was his team-mate and he garnered such points as a deeply disappointing Lotus offered , winding up with a single point . |
| 11 | a ‘ Big Crunch ’ as all the matter in the Universe converges to a single point |
| 12 | At first , the Germans succeeded in penetrating a single point in the British line to the north . |
| 13 | There is a need to provide a single point of reference ( an individual guide or facilitator or a recognised team ) for young people and their families throughout transition . |
| 14 | According to the group , IDAPI is an extension of Borland 's Object Database API , which creates a single point of access for locating SQL or navigational data . |
| 15 | They allow desktop objects to be collected at a single point and emulate a paper notebook , displaying pages on the screen . |
| 16 | Meanwhile , NCR has restructured its OEM Marketing & Sales Group to provide a single point of contact and foster strategic partnerships . |
| 17 | It will provide a single point of control over Novell networks , enabling users to maintain integrated system management security across host systems and the NetWare network computing environments , CA claims . |
| 18 | That 's just as well , because judging where the ball 's going takes a bit of practice — I did n't win a single point in my first few games . |
| 19 | However , the limitations of these data must be borne in mind , especially the fact that they are limited to a single point in time . |
| 20 | KEF have long wanted to achieve the ideal of generating the entire musical spectrum from a single point in space ( two points for stereo of course ) , but unlike Tannoy who have gradually approached this goal over many years through continual refinements to their famous ‘ Dualconcentric ’ technique ( in which a more or less conventional tweeter is mounted behind the magnet assembly of the midrange driver , its output funnelled through a special wave-guide to join the midrange output at the neck of its cone ) KEF held back until modern magnetic materials became available ( specifically neodymium-iron-boron , which has around ten times the energy product of conventional ferrite ) which would permit a small magnet assembly to be located actually at the neck of a midrange cone — hence their nomenclature of coincident , as opposed to concentric . |
| 21 | It had focused discussion on the plausibility of explanations based on dispersal from a single point . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In others , it discloses the provisionality and contingency of all interpretations , without any sense that there is a single point of truth . |
| 24 | By contrast , literacy ( more particularly print , which carries writing 's homogeneous , mechanical , repeatable , linear qualities to an extreme ) is narrow , flat , partial , detached , and results in private experience , a single point of view , a split between ‘ heart ’ and ‘ head ’ , and an ‘ objective I , linear sense of time Literacy is linked with the device of perspective in painting , individualism in literature and philosophy , personal expression and rational construction in music ; also , more widely , with the development of social uniformity , political centralization , empirical science and assembly-line production . |
| 25 | Our attempts at determining both the electric field strength and the potential have started with considering the effect of a single point charge and have been followed by an integration for obtaining the total effect of the infinitely long line charge . |
| 26 | The 1989 white paper on community care , Caring for People , took the implementation of these ideas further : ‘ Where an individual 's needs are complex or significant levels of resources are involved , the government sees considerable merit in nominating a ‘ case manager ’ to take responsibility for ensuring that the individual 's needs are regularly reviewed , resources are managed effectively and that each service user has a single point of contact . ’ |
| 27 | ( An event in this sense is something that takes place at a single point in space , at a specified point in time . ) |
| 28 | They said that a state of infinite density might occur only if the galaxies were moving directly toward or away from each other ; only then would they all have met up at a single point in the past . |
| 29 | When the universe was a single point , like the North Pole , it contained nothing . |
| 30 | Once the two basic shapes have been created a single point is selected on each object using the blend tool and the program then creates the required number of ‘ in-between ’ stages . |