Example sentences of "at the same point " in BNC.

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1 ‘ We were seeking to find if the river always spilled at the same points , and the answer was yes .
2 Gimmer Crag forms a head separated from the steep hillside by these two obvious gullies , which both start at the same point .
3 I carried on at the same point in the book and you did not seem to notice .
4 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 .
5 Then suddenly , at the same point as the previous year , I rejoined the leading pair and hit the front , swinging tangents across the tarmac .
6 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 .
7 Over to the west , the allied fires petered out at the same point ; yet Thiercelin fancied he could hear the rumble of distant movement .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 Starting at the same point but heading leftwards is Mysteron ( HVS 5b ) .
11 ‘ 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 .
12 Starting with an end between stem and stake , wrap the rose stem twice , snipping off the excess at the same point opposite the stake .
13 With this new configuration the acoustic centres of midrange and tweeter are at the same point so that their phase relationships have an exact match .
14 On the other hand , the ordinary and the extraordinary seemed to coincide at the same point .
15 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 .
16 Freeze frame is also possible with most videocassette machines but the picture is often unstable and the tape can be damaged if it is stopped too often at the same point .
17 It is useful to establish within an institute that everyone will zero at the same point , so that the numbering starts from approximately the same place each time .
18 This is achieved by adjusting the spacing between the words and characters as necessary so that each line of text finishes at the same point .
19 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 .
20 Independent control of water supplies to individual sections would facilitate this and the flexibility and effectiveness of the extinguishing system would be further improved if zones could be triggered by remote manual means linked into the automatic system and terminating at the same point as isolation valves and of venting controls .
21 The most general would be a polynomial There is , however , an important assumption made here , that is , that both and are evaluated at the same point .
22 The updating of all " persons ' files will remain a central responsibility to ensure they are kept at the same point in time .
23 In the above limit the difference between the local vectors at the same point is being taken , hence the covariant derivative is a valid vector .
24 Einstein simply equated these two tensors , making ‘ curvature ’ at a given point in space–time proportional to ‘ energy density ’ at the same point .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 Earlier McCallen had lost the lead at the same point on lap two after being outbraked by Dunlop .
30 Both lines , on extrapolation to the axis , should intersect at the same point .
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