Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] point " in BNC.

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1 yes , they 're very good , because they come , they come up with the points and the put it in the way relating to the clients , what the clients would want to know .
2 A bright red weal sprang up along the point of impact , a blaze of angry colour , and she watched it slowly spread , her breath rasping in her throat , her chest heaving raggedly .
3 Green stars are allocated at these shows and are made up on a points basis .
4 I 'd like to pick up on a point that er that Roy Donson made also right at the outset of of the discussion and that was that there 's no evidence that local authorities have have faced pressure for development in the countryside .
5 Can I pick up on a point that you 've just made Mr Sedgewick and also points made by those on your right about exceptions and presumptions .
6 I think Mr picked up on the points that I really wanted to address in Mr 's remarks .
7 A moment ago , the Home Secretary said that every applicant for asylum would have the right to go to an appeal tribunal , and his hon. Friend the Member for Lancaster ( Dame E. Kellett-Bowman ) rightly picked him up on the point .
8 But this if I may pick up on the point Mr made , how then do you assess the environmental impact of what you 're proposing if you do n't actually know where it 's going to go ?
9 Erm I was going to pick up on a number of points that have been raised by previous speakers , but erm Mr Grigson and Mr Curtis seem to have er dealt with a few of those , erm just with regard to the the table put in by C P R E , with their figures , I would just agree with Mr Cur er Mr Grigson that there is a very substantial degree of double counting in those figures , there is also a very substantial degree of over provision in the allowance for for conversions , er past conversion rates in Greater York have averaged something like twenty nine dwellings per year , over a fifteen year period your talking about four hundred and thirty five dwellings , which is the figure that both York City Council and ourselves have have made allowance for for conversions , that compares with a figure of a thousand dwellings referred to by the C P R E and I see no foundation for that figure , erm , as I say Mr Curtis already picked up on the point about windfalls rates by Mr Thomas , erm just turning to the difference between the tables er submitted by the County Council and York City Council on the the residue within the er Greater York area , I would accept the figure , the figures put in the tables by Mr er by Mr Curtis , I think that they have picked up the the more recent planning permissions and the completions information , and they also take on board there more recent work on erm development within the city , and I I accept that table .
10 Up to a point .
11 Yes , well , up to a point
12 Up to a point , regulation may attract business by offering a more secure environment .
13 But only up to a point , you see .
14 Up to a point that is correct .
15 You can , up to a point ( and we did up to that point ) , protect yourself against them with jungle gels and mustard gases , but the trees give no mercy and there are hours of them between Staddajakkstugorna , a mountain hut on the side of Kapasluoppal , and Staloluokta .
16 In their personal freedom I would n't say they are free like English girls but they are up to a point .
17 As far as APEX is concerned they are OK up to a point but they just want to follow the legal procedures and we want them to take some kind of militant action .
18 They always want to follow legal procedures up to a point , when even they realised that without some kind of help from other unions they were not going to win this strike .
19 The watchword was always ‘ differentiation ’ which was plain enough up to a point : policy would not be made en bloc , but country by country , depending .
20 It 's an attractive vision , up to a point , and it has a certain reality .
21 Up to a point his ruthlessness succeeded .
22 It seems to have been working — up to a point at least — and even members of the opposition Popular Front agree that he has been accepted by many Moldavians .
23 Only up to a point : without oil Saddam Hussein would not have invaded Kuwait ; nor would his invasion have threatened the West 's security .
24 But the piling-up of EC surpluses of beef , dairy products and cereals could — up to a point .
25 So it does — up to a point .
26 Up to a point they will , but they can not afford to let rescuing the banks sap their competitiveness , whether against other Japanese firms or against foreign ones .
27 Up to a point , the more money that racecourses spend , the more exciting the races , the more punters therefore spend , and so on .
28 The gods could , up to a point , be merciful ; but it was fate that was all-powerful .
29 It will be seen that English law does this up to a point , and in the process seems to accept social-defence arguments as reasons for departing from several of the principles set out in Chapter 3 .
30 ‘ I think you 're right up to a point , ’ agrees Friday .
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