Example sentences of "point at which [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Have we yet reached the point at which we would be awarded damages against the Meteorological Office because we went camping on the day of an unforecast hurricane ? |
| 2 | There should be one point at which we can put it and put it in just that one place . |
| 3 | Crown lands had been so much reduced in size that the most efficient management could not have increased their yield to the point at which they might have made any significant impact on royal finances . |
| 4 | First , internecine rivalries ensured that his opponents would never join forces to oust him ; for that reason alone , they would be allowed to continue , though never to reach a point at which they might get out of hand and overwhelm him . |
| 5 | To our surprise it was only possible to predict in half the patients the point at which they would block their coronary artery . |
| 6 | At a certain juncture ( the onset of modernism ? ) in such a chronology , cultural facts would accumulate to a point at which they could no longer be considered solely as representations , and the whole problem of their proper materiality and hence character as representations would have to be taken seriously . |
| 7 | Aberconwy Borough Council said the damage figure passed the point at which they could make requests for financial help to the Government . |
| 8 | They have reached the crucial point at which they can save because they have discharged other liabilities , but they will find such saving difficult . |
| 9 | Guidelines have been issued to them on the point at which they must desist from the chase because of danger to the public . |
| 10 | Disagreements in the church about the point at which one could not compromise left a legacy of schisms in the Nile valley and in North Africa , where the rancour of the Donatist schism persisted until the Muslim invasions swept them away four centuries later . |
| 11 | ‘ With other illustrators , I work at a distance — we visit and phone , but there is a point at which I ca n't pester them any more , ’ Allan says . |
| 12 | He was playing with her like a predator , judging the point at which she would lose control . |
| 13 | And she was well past the point at which she might have stopped her headlong dive into that dizzying state . |
| 14 | Often Morton had told himself savagely that there would soon be a point at which he would lose interest in the prospect of salvaging them . |
| 15 | The point at which Draper categorically said ‘ You ca n't do this ’ would be the point at which he would have to leave . |
| 16 | For example , it is possible for doctors to monitor how well you are , so that if your health deteriorates to a point at which you may be at risk from infections like PCP ( a virulent pneumonia ) , drugs can be prescribed which prevent or significantly delay their onset . |
| 17 | Start at the new radiator position and work back towards the point at which you will connect into the existing pipework . |
| 18 | Those on board were aware that they were approaching the point at which it would have to swing east and head inevitably back to Europe . |
| 19 | The letter stated : ’ The present de minimis figure of £100,000 reflects our judgment as to the point at which it would not be right to oblige an authority to comply with the accounting and reporting requirements of competitive tendering . ’ |
| 20 | We er went as far as we could without er erm finding that we would have to delete allocations that we were making or produce unrealistic er development sites erm the the figure of er twenty five hectares simply means that we 're ratcheting the the whole thing down to a point at which it ca n't be sustained . |
| 21 | With the new fitting connected up and mounted , run the rest of the wiring along your selected route to the point at which it will be connected to an existing circuit , then turn off the power and make the final connections . |