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

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1 The post , which is at research officer level , will be for two years in the first instance , with the possibility of extension , and the salary will be at the appropriate point on the 1A scale ( £ –£18 165 per annum ) with USS .
2 The standard pattern is used , adjusting the final pattern so as to be at the holding point as near as possible to the onward clearance time .
3 It does not indicate what the velocity will be at the same point at another instant or what it will be at any other geometrically similar point ( i.e. a point at the same distance from the axis ) .
4 They were at the highest point for twenty li about .
5 ‘ We are at the lowest point in my 12 years here .
6 ‘ We are at the lowest point in my 12 years here .
7 With this new configuration the acoustic centres of midrange and tweeter are at the same point so that their phase relationships have an exact match .
8 Hawkshead Grammar School was at the highest point of its reputation when Wordsworth arrived ; boys were sent to it from all over the north-west of England and even from Scotland .
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