Example sentences of "point [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 From that point onward the story is a bonus but overall you read for the quality of language and the quality of seeing rather than the material .
2 If there is any doubt about being able to prove this point successfully the prosecution should consider other offences .
3 But it is impossible to say at what point along the continuum the change from one form of the language to another occurs , or to determine how many distinct forms there are .
4 Nevertheless , the experiments presented in our paper point out the role of the L-arginine-NO pathway among the mechanisms that modulate the compliance of the gall bladder wall .
5 Nansen , an excellent scientist , had realised that the polar ice drifted from east to west and reasoned that if he chose his entry point correctly the ice would tow his ship over the pole and release it near Canada .
6 If the zero reference point is arranged to be at that assembly point then the assembly procedures are eased .
7 If the student demonstrated by his choices that he did not fully understand a particular point then the programme could send him round an additional explanatory loop .
8 I mean , the difference is , I think , that if you , if the letter comes from the liaison point then the letter wo n't necessarily be signed by the authorised researcher but we 're saying a copy of the letter is signed by the authorised researcher and put in the file .
9 Up to the fibre saturation point the lumen or hollow part of the cell is empty of water , above the fibre saturation point virtually the whole of the additional moisture exists as loose liquid water within the lumen .
10 He walked to Hause Point twice a day and apart from that … he wrote one or two letters and delighted her father by franking one of his ; he waited for him to get a full free day so that they could go char fishing ; he declined all invitations and although he was irreproachably welcoming when Mr Skelton and his daughter made a surprise detour on one of their visits up the valley from Lorton to call in at the Fish , Mary thought that she could tell that he was happier to see them depart than he had been to see them arrive .
11 A sequence of words which ends at a point where a pause may be made without any detrimental effect to the sense of the utterance .
12 Most famous are MacLeod 's Maidens at Idrigill Point where a Macleod clan chief 's wife and daughter drowned .
13 At every point where a road entered the ‘ restricted zone ’ , Singapore 's equivalent of Securicor officers stood , radios in hand .
14 The scales of sexuality tip at the point where a person is more highly attracted to others of his or her own sex than to those of opposite gender .
15 But there is only injustice when preventable suffering is allowed to persist to the point where a person would rather be dead .
16 By using a grid marked out on the ground , each point where a reading is taken can be plotted .
17 It reached a point where a number of people 's art collections began to be more valuable than the businesses that had allowed them to buy in the first place . ’
18 This is the point where a number of difficult areas converge : society 's ambivalence about sexuality and people with learning difficulties ; a tradition of segregation ; a lingering concern about eugenics ; a shameful history of ( enforced ) sterilisation ; a proper concern about vulnerable children ; and their right to due protection from neglect and abuse — set against an increasing recognition that people with learning difficulties should enjoy the same rights to an ordinary life in our society as anyone else , including the rights to be parents .
19 Okay , we can now define certain pre-structural relations which we 'll then use to explain the behaviour of things like herself so it 's only over okay , and node X dominates a node Y right , where a node is the point where a label appears , sentence node , node and so on .
20 But whereas aesthetically the transformation and revitalization of conventions may be motivated ultimately , even in its classical forms , by a desire for a verisimilitude guaranteed by ‘ public opinion ’ , the need of the industry for new exploitation angles may exceed this aesthetic impulse , going beyond verisimilitude to the point where a series takes its significance not from an agreed or conventionalized similarity to the world , but from its difference to other series .
21 The communications audit provides a way for the consultancy to examine the matter , to assess all aspects , and to talk to people within and without the company , before arriving at a point where a PR programme can be created and recommendations made .
22 They had heard it some time before they reached it , the rumble of thunder growing louder as they approached , to become almost deafening at the point where a cloud of spray hovered overhead , the droplets becoming tiny rainbows as they caught the sun .
23 The ascent is usually made from the charming village of Hartley , near Kirkby Stephen , where a rising road passing the huge Hartley Quarry is available for cars to a point where a cart track branches off and heads into the hills .
24 ‘ It 's a ‘ 59 Stratocaster , although I 've got a different neck on it now , because I 'd worn the original one to the point where every time I re-fretted it , I had to fill in the holes !
25 Textiles were in full decline ; the old metal trades had vanished to the point where no artisan could explain the traditional techniques .
26 O K , erm , premiums are stopped for er , if you ca n't afford to carry on paying them , the premiums are stopped , and your fund is continued up until the p , the point where the charges exhaust the funds , providing it 's over a thousand pounds .
27 Yes , there 's always been a genuine interest in the Arts Association as a point where the university , those people involved in the university , can hear about what 's taking place in the arts and also participate in some aspects of the advisory panels .
28 Mark the point where the cannon ball strikes the ground and roll the Artillery dice to establish the bounce distance .
29 Someone more thoughtful than the rest had ordered to be shut the big river gates that were at the point where the Ankh flowed out of the twin city .
30 For her to have vetted the reporters on an individual basis ( which would have been the first instinct of the malai military left to their own devices ) would have caused offence to the point where the exercise would have been counter-productive .
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