Example sentences of "at the [adj -est] point [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Going back perhaps 200 years the Ponderosa was a little farmhouse nestling in a redoubt at the highest point on the mountain road between Belfast and ‘ Derry . |
| 2 | They were at the highest point for twenty li about . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 5 | On contemporary art sales undoubtedly enduring a difficult period at present he noted that even at the highest point of the market , revenue had not amounted to more than about 20% of the house 's total sales . |
| 6 | The wall can be found behind the Beran Filling Station , which lies at the highest point of the Bangor on Llanberis road ( B4547 ) , about 200 metres from the Deiniolen turn-off . |
| 7 | At the highest point of the rising damp there will be an ugly tide-mark . |
| 8 | He was standing on the exposed rocks at the highest point of the headland ; the ground fell away steeply from here , mostly bare rock and scrub , with just a narrow shelf of land that was almost a beach down at the water 's edge . |
| 9 | Rocky outcrop at the highest point of the grouse moors ; view over Wharfedale towards Burnsall and of Skyreholme , a tributary valley . |
| 10 | We continued climbing for a short while and were soon at the highest point of our walk . |
| 11 | It maybe that the pipework does not slope — gently away from the vent pipe which can cause air to collect at the highest point of the pipe . |
| 12 | A solar heating system consists of three main components : the solar panel , a feed-and-expansion cistern ( which must be positioned at the highest point of the system ) and the solar cylinder . |
| 13 | The Rev. had obtained the permission of the Archbishop of Canterbury to have himself buried there , at the highest point in the district , standing on his head . |
| 14 | Gian Galeazzo Visconti was responsible for the construction of a set of canals — here at the lowest point of the Lombardy Plain — and initiated the building of one of the wonders of Italy , the Duomo . |
| 15 | They are also fitted at the lowest point of a central heating system ( and on downloops and , perhaps , next to the boiler ) and , usually , just before a garden tap . |
| 16 | No valves should be fitted to obstruct the cold feed pipe to or the open vent pipe from the boiler — apart from a draincock at the lowest point of the system . |
| 17 | Output is allocated among plants so that all are producing at the lowest point on their average cost curves . |
| 18 | At the lowest point in David 's fortunes he is forced to evacuate Jerusalem . |
| 19 | The cure was to provide drain-holes , not just anywhere , but at the lowest point in each compartment . |
| 20 | ‘ We are at the lowest point in my 12 years here . |
| 21 | ‘ We are at the lowest point in my 12 years here . |
| 22 | It was unfortunate that she would meet the traveller at the darkest point of the path . |
| 23 | The Dannewerk at the narrowest point of the isthmus of Schleswig , reached from sea to sea , and remained as a strategic position in wars between Danes and Germans until as late as the nineteenth century . |
| 24 | Now , with the tide low , the causeway connecting the islet with Moila 's mainland was high and dry , running across at the narrowest point of the channel . |
| 25 | She climbed up again , then ran along the shoreline until she was standing at the nearest point to it . |
| 26 | It must be remembered that na umpire in professional cricket is generally some 70 years at the nearest point from the rope . |
| 27 | and all this at the worst point of the war . |
| 28 | Instead , they fell against some fifty concealed musketeers deployed behind the robust palisade of the settlement at the easiest point of access , the gate by the bridge over the stream . |
| 29 | Far up on the left , above the inn and the cottage row , two other figures moved , blue and white , not haymakers — Jean Bruce and young Donald , walking hand in hand amongst the bents of a neglected field at the furthest point of the McCullochs ' holding . |