Example sentences of "a [noun sg] point [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the north of the island , a lookout point with breathtaking views across to Graciosa Island , reputed to be the real Treasure Island . |
| 2 | He 'd been directing traffic at a census point in Weedon , Northamptonshire . |
| 3 | To ask for more can be counter-productive ; management may later be able to make a bargaining point of the fact that Newco has sought only those warranties that are required to satisfy the investors . |
| 4 | I found your ideas to be very helpful , from a teaching point of view , and I am sure that players will find them particularly beneficial for the development of control and co-ordination . |
| 5 | However , it is likely to be preferable to limit the range of choices facing the teacher at any moment and to group them in a natural way from a teaching point of view . |
| 6 | To check for the sensitivity of the results , we have estimated the model with a change point at the end of 1st ( Model 1 ) , 2nd ( Model 2 ) and 3rd ( Model 3 ) quarters . |
| 7 | From a user point of view , the model stays the same whether the storage structures are held on magnetic tape , disk or main storage . |
| 8 | From a wave point of view this is easily understood . |
| 9 | This is a form that we asked you to complete and send down , and some people have done it , and some people hadn't. so should get er , a bonus point for that . |
| 10 | Do I get a bonus point for getting everyone under the south east ? |
| 11 | That 's a bonus point to mother . |
| 12 | She defeated Miss Minoprio by 7 and 6 , with her overall poise no doubt earning her a bonus point from England 's selectors . |
| 13 | There were witnesses to that , so he might as well earn a bonus point by mentioning it first . |
| 14 | The trip was educational from a golfing point of view . |
| 15 | From a hygiene point of view it 's it must be a little ancient by now . |
| 16 | The work is varied : the main objective being to act as a liaison point for our Moscow office . |
| 17 | As it passes over a toll point in the road ( essentially a wire loop buried in the surface ) a radio beam from the loop will interrogate the number plate and feed back the vehicle number to a central computer . |
| 18 | The Conservative Party was thus preserved intact , and the fact that it was able to provide a rallying point for the middle and lower middle classes was arguably one of the main bulwarks against political extremism in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 19 | Dada was to be a rallying point for abstract energies and a lasting slingshot for the great international artistic movements ’ . |
| 20 | The last of those three comments was , it is true , written almost fifteen years ago , long before the more than ‘ adequate ’ gay images of My Beautiful Laundrette or Law of Desire or Torch Song Trilogy , but I think the general point stands : before we stampede to dispense with ‘ identity ’ , let us consider whether it still has its uses as a rallying point for political action . |
| 21 | There was virtually no Polish middle class to act as a rallying point for the upper and lower classes , to act as a focus of opposition to Prussian policies . |
| 22 | The principal objective of the campaign is to encourage walking by the promotion of demonstration pedestrian priority projects , which would act as models of good practice and thus provide guidance to local authorities and , metaphorically , a rallying point for pedestrians . |
| 23 | Ironically , the autarkic model foisted by Stalin on his charges in the 1940s to maintain their isolation from one another and their dependency upon him had , by the 1960s , become something of a rallying point for regimes who in no other sphere enjoyed any tangible measure of independence . |
| 24 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 25 | But in 1900 Plekhanov 's group , augmented by Lenin and Martov , set up Iskra , an émigré journal designed as a rallying point for like-minded Social Democrats . |
| 26 | This point can be more clearly illustrated by considering the prolonged controversy surrounding the effects of modern farming methods on the rural landscape-This has created as much , if not more , acrimony between farming and environmental interests in recent years , with the destruction of traditional landscape features replacing the extermination of birds of prey as a rallying point for public attention . |
| 27 | The importance of the Serbian Church as a rallying point for Serbs , both within and outside the Ottoman empire , can not be too strongly emphasised . |
| 28 | As we shall see , this may well have been politically motivated to the extent that the relics of the archbishop so recently and brutally murdered by Cnut 's countrymen were perhaps serving as a rallying point for discontent in the city . |
| 29 | Soviet authorities persecuted the Lithuanian Catholic Church more harshly than those in the other Baltic states of Latvia and Estonia — which the Pope is also visiting — because it had become a rallying point against the communist government . |
| 30 | From a research point of view , 50 clients in each group would enable some comparisons to be made both within and between areas , although much larger samples would have been preferable . |