Example sentences of "at the same point [prep] " in BNC.

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1 We can thus only strictly compare the district elections of 1990 with those at the same point of the cycle tour years ago in the 114 local authorities where no material change to either boundaries or the electoral system has taken place .
2 Jack recently told us the plot of a 1951 Jane Wyman movie called The Blue Veil and we both broke down sobbing at the same point of the story and sobbed for minutes .
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 See , the whole trick with Hawaiian music is the mixing of the chords : everybody might be in C , but everybody is tuned differently , so instead of always playing the same damn intervals at the same point on the instrument , you have this wonderful overlap that spreads the feeling of the key out into kind of a pre-'60s sort of an effect .
5 the ability to adjust the interline spacing ( leading ) and manipulation of text in fine increments to make columns and pages end at the same point on a page .
6 There are special collar bosses or soil manifolds which enable a WC connection and a bath connection to be made at the same point on the soil stack .
7 Earlier McCallen had lost the lead at the same point on lap two after being outbraked by Dunlop .
8 Starting with an end between stem and stake , wrap the rose stem twice , snipping off the excess at the same point opposite the stake .
9 I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice .
10 Most countries organize censuses of their population on something like ten-yearly intervals , but not all do , and they certainly do not do them at the same point in time .
11 The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them .
12 ‘ Concurrent validity ’ ( C3 ) is the agreement between the test scores and some criterion measure at the same point in time , while ‘ predictive validity ’ ( P ) refers to the agreement between test scores and some criterion measure obtained sometime later .
13 However , to suggest to a parent that an assessment should start at the same point in time as the children are prepared for removal to a long-term placement , does not enable an open and honest working relationship .
14 The updating of all " persons ' files will remain a central responsibility to ensure they are kept at the same point in time .
15 Compared with 10 years ago , at the same point in the economic cycle , output is up by nearly a quarter , investment is up by a third , manufacturing productivity is up by more than a half and manufacturing exports are up by nearly three quarters .
16 Leaving aside the issue of sovereignty — not of the House but of the people to self-government — the devil of the single currency is not merely that the economies of the Community are simply not convergent and would be prevented from converging by a single currency , but that they are not all at the same point in their economic cycles .
17 To compare the new technique with the conventional intraoesophageal pH measurement , a method was developed to locate a pH electrode at the same point in the oesophagus as that monitored by the cadmium telluride detector .
18 Because comparison is generally more important in science than the determination of an absolute value , we are generally involved in observing either the same sample at two different points of time between which X occurs , or two different samples at the same point in time , only one having been subjected to X.
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