Example sentences of "point [prep] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 On this er er further to this point about continuity they make the point as well that a system of election by thirds makes it more difficult for the officers of the authority to dominate the councillors .
2 The letter ends : ‘ Now on the point of departure we ask for your PRAYERS — for ourselves and our families whom we leave behind . ’
3 As a point of reference it will be assumed that for a supernova collapse the gravitational waves carry off a total energy of in a burst of milliseconds length and at a frequency of about I kHz .
4 Here houses looked to me like Monopoly chips : seeing a man cycling over the pathless tundra I scanned hopelessly for a possible point of reference he might have .
5 It is however noticeable that while on the point of history he was directly opposed to Liberal Theology , his appeal to a ‘ spirit ’ somehow detachable from the Jesus of history , and his practical application of it , run very much along similar lines to the Liberal approach .
6 Just , Just one point , point of order they are actually having great problems in getting the translantic flights over there .
7 Chair , chair point of order , you do n't , point of order you , Mr does n't need to move an an amendment or anything else , you can still accept debate on any item on the agenda until you 've called the next agenda item , irrespective of the motion on the table .
8 O o o o order , the honourable gentleman will recall that er in an earlier point of order I 've already ruled on that matter .
9 Chairman , my point of order , my point of order I second and I reserve my remarks I was waiting to see if you called me last .
10 As point of order I believe as this is a proposal of an amendment of the city board city board is the city board chair 's right of reply .
11 Another point of contact I know that you have is erm through the Town Gown Club .
12 at any time in the future you need er con to contact me er that 's a point of contact you can
13 Probably had I been there at the point of commissioning I would not have chosen that story .
14 Even at the point of death we are nevertheless still members of a social group — be it a family , a hospital ward , a platoon of soldiers , or whatever .
15 On the point of death he forgave them their sin , saying they should retain their tenancy of the abbot 's lands , and of his successors , by the performance of the detailed penance he laid out for them .
16 I hate the fact that , during election campaigns , we all have to suck up to the idiots , pay court to them , treat them as if they were intelligent , thoughtful stalwarts of democracy , careful weighers of pros and cons , when in point of fact they 're just idiots .
17 In point of fact I had enjoyed some experience in radio network production before arriving at CBR , Vancouver .
18 In point of fact she had hardly tasted any before .
19 In strict point of fact it belongs to the National Health Service .
20 Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school .
21 Erm Mr Chairman on a point of information , the figures he has obtained on my figures are figures in a report issued by the director of social services and I think on a point of information he should acknowledge that they are the figures given by the officers .
22 If I had n't been so besotted and obsessed to the point of madness I 'd have called the whole thing off ! ’
23 At this point of crisis she could n't bear a quiet limbo .
24 From this high point of religiosity we descend to an ironic concluding sentence , recalling another leitmotiv which makes its first appearance in passage [ 3 ] : [ 6 ] " Dear me , dear me !
25 From the practical standpoint , it is often claimed that there is never enough time to write objectives ; that their use removes the spontaneity from teaching ; and finally that from a clinical point of view they are inappropriate , as much of the teaching is ‘ crisis , teaching and can not be foreseen nor planned .
26 From a beneficial point of view they help your body break down food materials , and are active in the decomposition of waste matter ; on a more negative note they also cause various infections and diseases and spoil food .
27 From the churches ' point of view they are ‘ religious media ’ , though a considerable part of their contents may serve to mirror ecclesiastical life .
28 From their point of view they still had a long way to go in rescuing their past .
29 First , from a politico-military point of view they can not possibly win , since nobody sensible would allow anything to be changed by force at the end of the twentieth century .
30 But , in fact from a farmer 's point of view they are a su a nuisance , we have a man who co , who supposedly raises pheasants , he traps them , he also trapped my dog and this is him ah , justified , his justification was there were too many foxes .
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