Example sentences of "be [vb pp] at [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are one or two Well there are two items in there which have n't really been resolved at this point and that 's the i the erm ins er where am I . |
| 2 | His uncle , sister , and brother can all be described as nationalists and although Ho seems to have been attracted at one point to the China of the 1911 Revolution , he chose instead to make his way to France where , having led an intellectually enriched but materially impoverished existence in Paris , he achieved some fame , or notoriety , among his fellow expatriates by attempting to present a list of Vietnamese grievances to Woodrow Wilson and the European statesmen who had gathered in 1919 at Versailles . |
| 3 | The fact that costs are not sunk means production is timeless — nothing has been committed at any point . |
| 4 | A question that has still not been answered at any point during the debate was asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Buckingham ( Mr. Walden ) : what happens if the other countries go ahead without us ? |
| 5 | The missed approach is commenced immediately on reaching decision height , if visual contact has not been made at this point . |
| 6 | If we return to our example , we can see that if a subject hears Forgive us our tres … and a decision has been made at this point that the incomplete word is trespasses , the subject can begin to say trespasses and ignore the rest of the word . |
| 7 | When people publish prescriptive grammar books , or dictionaries which tell you how to spell words or style manuals which tell you how to punctuate , they are either making their own choice between different possible ( in many cases , arbitrary ) rules or conforming to rules which have been selected at some point by others from a range of possibilities and passed down through history . |
| 8 | Decisions are made at one point , and so easier to coordinate . |
| 9 | Within the bubble , firms are allowed to increase emissions at one point source as long as greater or compensatory reductions in emissions are accomplished at another point source within the bubble . |
| 10 | The defences at Alcester have only been found at one point on the north-west side by the river , and are of two periods with a wall supported by timber piles , close enough to the river bank as not to need a ditch system at this point . |
| 11 | Some simple measures of index effectiveness are introduced at this point in order to approach different indexing methods critically . |
| 12 | It should be explained at this point that each university is funded at the full rate for only a core number of ‘ Fully Funded ’ students in each of 25 ‘ narrow ’ subject groups . |
| 13 | The production can be halted at any point so that discussions and questions can take place . |
| 14 | The proceedings can be stopped at any point before the divorce is granted if you change your mind , but you must tell the Court of Session without delay . |
| 15 | The mental element or mens rea under section 6(3) should be considered at this point . |
| 16 | The ball may be dropped at any point along this line . |
| 17 | The dumplings can be frozen at this point until ready to use . |
| 18 | The meteorological aspects of the German winter have already been discussed , and could perhaps be reread at this point ( p. 36 ) . |
| 19 | There are relevant stair er Chairman which you can look out of place at the present moment of time but they will need to be addressed at some point in time in the future and therefore one could be forgiven for wanting to prioritise various but in general terms , the strategy that has been er looked at is the progress of St Albans in general , there may be small elements of it and some of these have already touched upon but in general that is no sound strategy er which over a period of time and in the process of that it will be essential to monitor erm the effect of some of the changes as you go forward to see in fact whether the other elements of strategy that were erm put in to that er work were in fact still necessary and whether they should be have some . |
| 20 | Other INSET and resources support was also to be organised at this point . |
| 21 | All that can sensibly be said is that , given everything capitalism had gone through over the previous few years , a collapse of confidence was to be expected at some point . |
| 22 | What needs to be stressed at this point is that this evolution is rooted in a very specific historical moment of production . |
| 23 | It should perhaps be stressed at this point that the three-element model , while modelling many of the features of solid polymers , remains only a model . |
| 24 | It could be objected at this point that all philosophy is critical , that all philosophical theory attempts to question , correct or overturn current orthodoxy and so that feminist philosophy is just philosophy , and there is nothing specifically feminist about it . |
| 25 | However , there are one or two qualifications which must be made at this point with respect to the human sciences . |
| 26 | Mention should be made at this point of a responsibility of the Chemical Products business which is outside of the mainstream . |
| 27 | The decision faced by firms as to which intermediary to use , and the policies to be adopted at this point , are critical to the firm 's future in the market . |
| 28 | I guess I just wanted to be seen at that point . |
| 29 | Once the connection is made ( and it must be said at this point that the parallel connection is far and away the faster of the two possibles ) a program rejoicing in the highly descriptive name of ‘ FX ’ must be run at either end of the link . |
| 30 | In Gray 's Elegy there is also a ‘ hoary-headed Swain' , who addresses a ‘ kindred spirit ’ ( to the dead poet ) ‘ led by lonely contemplation ’ ; there may be other parallels , but it must be conceded at this point that it is only at the close of Hartleap Well that Wordsworth approaches closely to Gray 's verse movement : |