Example sentences of "at the [adj] point " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | When a colleague had some treatment , a tape was played and he was made to look up at the highest point of the ceiling . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At the highest point of the rising damp there will be an ugly tide-mark . |
| 7 | There is now an elegant bandstand and a curious pile of Purbeck stone at the highest point , forming the War Memorial . |
| 8 | The Standedge tunnel , at the highest point ( 637 feet ) of the Huddersfield Canal , was 5,415 yards long . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They were at the highest point for twenty li about . |
| 11 | Rocky outcrop at the highest point of the grouse moors ; view over Wharfedale towards Burnsall and of Skyreholme , a tributary valley . |
| 12 | We continued climbing for a short while and were soon at the highest point of our walk . |
| 13 | My attention had been so far away and the dog had timed his jump to a split second so that his bark came at the highest point , his teeth only inches from my face . |
| 14 | Inside , I was barely able to stand upright at the highest point , for I was head and shoulders taller than my sinister host ; and it did not escape my notice that the roof at its highest point was infested with cobwebs , in the corners of which sat large square spiders . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | This Page : 61 years separate these two pictures outside the Oxford Hotel in Marton , at the easterly point of the tramway . |
| 19 | It could not have been more than three feet deep at the deepest point and as little as six inches in others . |
| 20 | At the present point in time there are those who are of the opinion that no sacrifice is too great for our democracy , least of all the sacrifice of democracy itself to the power of the judges and enslaving legal limitations . |
| 21 | ‘ send a message by telephone which was of an indecent ( or an obscene or a menacing ) character or ’ Telephone means the same public system as at the alternative point at 2 ante . |
| 22 | With practice , the ringer can swing the bell in a controlled fashion through 360 degrees , producing the right ‘ dong ’ at the right point among all the other bells whirling away in the belfry . |
| 23 | So the pattern will start at the right point cam with stitch number 18 of the pattern . |
| 24 | With correct positioning , to ensure the join came at the right point with the stairs , and a generous overlap , we could cut the correct angle through both . |
| 25 | ‘ Are you listening to me ? ’ he demanded when she failed to laugh at the right point . |
| 26 | I loved the programme and the people but I made the decision to leave at the right point , before I could grow bored . ’ |
| 27 | His security could still be threatened at the one point left vulnerable . |
| 28 | We see this every day at the one point at which British civilians connect to the Gulf : through the media . |
| 29 | There is , for instance , a showy and large-scale entrance to the Phaistos temple at the north-west corner ; at the equivalent point in the Knossos Labyrinth there seems to have been no entrance at all , in spite of the arguments of Arthur Evans and James Walter Graham ( see Castleden 1989 , pp. 12 and 189 ) . |
| 30 | Figure 5.11 The numbers stored in the memory banks shown in Figure 5.9 represent the intensity of the colour displayed at the equivalent point on the TV monitor screen . |