Example sentences of "point [prep] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The best starting point for understanding time and its measurement will be the children 's own experience and the landmarks in their own very short life such as birthdays , going to school , the birth of brothers and sisters , etc . |
| 2 | Our starting point for analysing structure happens to have been with an exercise , the form of drama popularised by Brian Way , and yet little attempt has so far been made by him or by anyone else to show how these apparently slight adjustments within the structure of the exercise can seriously affect the outcome . |
| 3 | Take the point about withdrawing attention . |
| 4 | Anne , you have already answered the point about making money and the difficulties . |
| 5 | It illustrates many points in this chapter , but above all the point about blaming forest users . |
| 6 | What 's the point of taking driving lessons , or motorbike lessons then ? |
| 7 | I may try to shrink myself to an infinitesimal point of thinking Ego to which all spontaneous process is external , but the spontaneous is always springing up at the centre of me , thrusting me forward or dragging me back , and it is only at the periphery that I can take full control of it . |
| 8 | I knew that they had been on the point of shipping dialysis machines to Lebanon in an attempt to free Alec Collett just before the bombing of Libya . |
| 9 | Her feelings about this man might be ambiguous to the point of causing insanity , but she became acutely aware of something . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's the point of sending Officer Hassan flying off at half cock and upsetting a lot of people if it 's all to no purpose ? ’ |
| 11 | What the widow , divorcee or sorrowing woman fails to realize is that if the grieving were to stop the interest might diminish , or if intimacy were to develop to the point of involving responsibility , comfort would be withdrawn . |
| 12 | This seems distinct from the earlier image of a crowd being roused to the point of demanding blood . |
| 13 | The point of comparing rebel human DNA with invading parasitic viruses is that there really is n't any important difference between them . |
| 14 | What on earth was the point of collecting money to save the tower of a church that was n't even beautiful ? |
| 15 | What then is the point of banning advertising ? |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , in point of discovering information . |
| 17 | Yet the point of devolving power to provincial assemblies , central to the debate over the Tamil question , was to give these provinces some control over their own affairs . |
| 18 | erm strike out , interim payment , order fourteen er itself , there 's always still available to them , erm that the other side of the coin is if they get their money and of course they 're going to be threatening bankruptcy for some four thousand odd Names , I mean that 's , that 's equally devastating to individuals , erm my Lord , one would be into a type of argument on balance of convenience if we were at this stage , one would be considering the bankruptcy of the names , whether they have the funds to pay , even if judgment is given against them because vast majority do n't and what would be the point of giving judgment , this order fourteen cases saying one should n't do it in those circumstances , what if the names are right , will they get the money back , will they get a cross undertaking damages and pre er , er and to what extent do now have the funds , to what extent will it actually effect their business in the light of of |
| 19 | Some of the veterans were on the point of giving tongue but young Donald McCulloch was on his feet and moving into the middle of the ring , he was full of himself , sparkling with mischief but with an undertow of ardour . |
| 20 | What is the point of having cycle facilities which cyclists will not bother to use because of the inconvenience ? |
| 21 | And and what is the point of disguising disguise ? |
| 22 | For a second she was on the point of executing Ace for insubordination . |
| 23 | If the point of inducing labour is to reduce risks to the neonate then it may be failing . |
| 24 | Why should the assumption of a perfect detachment be retained in ethics , where it amounts to the transparent fiction that I can , so to speak , stand outside myself , withdraw to a point of observing Ego witnessing unmoved even my own emotions ? |
| 25 | why should they put in those sub-headings you what 's the point of putting passion , what 's the point of your sub-heading loving and potion . |
| 26 | Part of the point of selling state businesses is to raise hard cash , and taking on more debt to fund worker buyouts in return for low or non-earning equity stakes ( which may prove to be worthless in the long run ) is not a real option for the government . |
| 27 | His father was dying , and he himself on the very point of becoming chief of Clan Gillian . |
| 28 | A Polish Socialist Party of Prussia , formed in 1893 , challenged the right of the German Social Democratic Party to represent Poles — even to the point of fielding election candidates against the German party ( which then withdrew its fraternal subsidy to the Poles ) . |
| 29 | Er , what 's the point of analysing fuel for it 's su , er , diesel fuel for it 's sulphur content ? |
| 30 | but I ca n't see the point of doing vinyl on that anyway I really can not . |