Example sentences of "is at [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically , they are glorified ‘ pincers ’ , which pinch the skin and find how thick the fat layer is at various points around the body . |
| 2 | Dale and his colleagues in the 1930s showed that acetylcholine , in addition to its other properties , was a local hormone relaying messages at autonomic ganglia , that is at critical points in the nerve pathways which control the heart and blood vessels , and at the sites where nerves activate voluntary muscles . |
| 3 | My conviction is that as we take action , and show that we mean business , we will find that it is at that point precisely that the Holy Spirit comes to help us in our weakness and change everything from a mechanical discipline to an encounter with the living God . |
| 4 | And you could bring them fairly close together and say well I ca n't tell you exactly what the gradient is at that point , but if you draw a tiny little line and take the gradient of that . |
| 5 | In the article on his work which appeared in 1985 Levi is at one point examined with reference to Leviticus . |
| 6 | Eli himself for the most part does not appear in a bad light , but as the one responsible for the proper functioning of the sanctuary , he is implicated in his sons ' guilt , is at one point accused of sharing their greed , and is doomed to share in great disgrace about to befall his family . |
| 7 | A particular country is at one point on that scale at one time by one measure . |
| 8 | So let's plot what the speed is at different points . |
| 9 | I agree , provided that means the right shaft can help the player to know exactly where the clubhead is at any point during his swing . |
| 10 | It is at these points in a jury trial that the legal opinion is important : a lawyer is not directly concerned with the work of the jury . |
| 11 | The enemy threatening that task is at this point the Philistines . |
| 12 | It is at this point that Todorov 's ‘ classicism , is projected towards postmodernism . |
| 13 | It is at this point that gonorrhoea may start to produce symptoms in the female . |
| 14 | It is at this point in the profound stillness that the sound of the mind can be heard . |
| 15 | It is at this point that I slip from my pedestal of polite insouciance . |
| 16 | It is at this point that library promotion and publicity broadens into public relations , which , in its fullest treatment , is beyond the scope of this book . |
| 17 | There is always a point at which the limitation of science , albeit forever progressing , introduces the need to make an unproved assumption about the mystery of life , and it is at this point that a religion becomes a necessity and must take over . |
| 18 | It is at this point that the system is heading for a new crisis . |
| 19 | It is at this point that a right heart attitude would benefit greatly from an intelligent technique . |
| 20 | Although a measure of ambivalence is quite usual , it is at this point that a decision is made about going public . |
| 21 | We 've spoken in the past about the importance of the acoustic tone of an instrument ; the better the tone is at this point , the less work the pickups and amp have to do to produce that sound . |
| 22 | And it is at this point that we can see the way in which secularisation feeds and nurtures the philosophies of secularism . |
| 23 | Yet it is at this point that it comes into sharpest conflict with the cultural and anti-intellectual currents which are rooted in a return to instinctual modes . |
| 24 | It is at this point that the analogy between anorexia nervosa and hysteria , which Freud saw as separate from and possibly opposed to the obsessional neuroses , seems to break down , along with Dally 's separation of the two as different forms of the disease . |
| 25 | It is at this point that the women are introduced into the story to take over the role of the disciples . |
| 26 | It is at this point that elderly people often lose out , such is the pressure to give top priority to protective work with small children . |
| 27 | It is at this point you should decide on your future involvement . |
| 28 | It is at this point that Phil Barlow makes his strongest attack when he says : |
| 29 | It is at this point , where the routines become more closely aligned with the self and where they appear to be dealing reasonably successfully with the ever-present problem of control , that the habit becomes hard to break and that threats to it will be resisted . |
| 30 | It is at this point that the anthropologist , when pressed , retreats into impenetrable jungles of ethnographic fact . |