Example sentences of "point of [noun sg] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the capital the police told employers to work their men to the point of exhaustion the day before the terms were to be made known in order to leave them too weary to protest . |
| 2 | Goody traces the development of written forms in early Greece until the point when alphabetic literacy enabled ‘ groups of writers and teachers … to take as their point of departure the belief that much of what Homer had apparently said was inconsistent and unsatisfactory in many respects ’ ( 1968 , p. 46 ) . |
| 3 | In summary , though choice theories appear to take as their point of departure the priority of individual autonomy , when we step beyond their criterion of personal responsibility , as defined by the concept of voluntary consent , to the question of the kinds of obligation which the state will enforce , we find that choice theorists admit that they introduce a style of moral paternalism at odds with liberal values . |
| 4 | This perspective takes as its point of departure the discrepancy between the law 's assertion that shareholders control corporate managers and the reality of their more or less total failure to exercise any of the responsibilities of ownership . |
| 5 | She thought again what a point of defence the tower was , commanding the countryside , and then she saw that there was a back road leading away from the tower , narrower , bumpier even than the drive to the front door , which snaked quickly down the hill and out of sight . |
| 6 | In point of interpretation the line taken in ex p Osman looks correct . |
| 7 | This might seem to be moving away from Golyadkin , but in point of tone The Double and The Possessed draw closest to one another , and to Don Quixote , in the ludicrous materialities of preparation , and in their juxtaposing of very particular odds and ends with an airy universality which in lesser hands would be emptiness . |
| 8 | When it comes to abusing parliamentary procedure , I fail to see what point of order the hon. Gentleman was seeking to make . |
| 9 | The rural sociological literature of the 1960s of the diffusionist school has demonstrated to the point of overkill the problem of the laggard and the small farmer ( Rogers & Shoemaker 1971 ) . |
| 10 | Again the signal as to how to behave is given to drivers entering the area by remodelling junctions at the point of entry the before/after pair of illustrations show the treatment of the Konopkastrasse/main road intersection by reducing turning space , lowering light poles , emphasizing cycle lanes and planting greenery . |
| 11 | In point of fact the JCS had been pressing for consistent applications of containment ever since 1947 , had identified US security interests with Nationalist success in China and had declared that , if the Chinese Nationalists were to fall , the US must be prepared to accept eventual Soviet hegemony over Asia . |
| 12 | In point of fact the reverse ruled : I was constantly having chits thrust at me giving me a blow-by-blow account of " Charlie 's " state of health , but I was never made aware of the seriousness of Eddie 's wound , and somehow I did not know until I visited him in hospital later that morning . |
| 13 | At a time of ‘ awful crisis , when constitutions of kingdoms are on the point of dissolution the stain of the blood of Africa is no longer upon us ’ thus removing ‘ a mill-stone about our necks , ready to sink us to perdition ’ . |
| 14 | At the point of referral the system is primarily concerned with pupils whose behaviour is ‘ aggressive , ’ ‘ extrovert ’ and ‘ disruptive . ’ |
| 15 | This chance is increased by 10% for each point of Strength the character has over 4 and reduced by 10% for each point of Strength the character has below 4 . |
| 16 | This chance is increased by 10% for each point of Strength the character has over 4 and reduced by 10% for each point of Strength the character has below 4 . |
| 17 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 18 | But from the firm 's point of view the local sales of a subsidiary are as much foreign sales as any export is . |
| 19 | From the Communist point of view the witch-hunts and loyalty tests of the United States must have looked like the little puffs of smoke and flame of a stage dragon which fooled nobody . |
| 20 | From the learner 's point of view the most valuable part of this book consists of the 49 problems and answers . |
| 21 | From an ecological point of view the maritime , calcareous dune and pasture areas provide zones of exceptional richness and diversity ; a diversity that is enhanced by the system of non-intensive agriculture ( Roberts , Kerr and Seaton , 1959 ) and the close juxtaposition of moorland , loch and marshland habitats . |
| 22 | From their point of view the results are rather disappointing . |
| 23 | But if the bad effects are on the body , and the good effects are on the gene alone , from the body 's point of view the net effect is all bad . ) |
| 24 | From society 's point of view the only question is whether those who had the benefit of these excellent libraries in the forces will have the same access to books when they leave . |
| 25 | From an animal welfare point of view the chasing of a fox or a deer round the countryside with dogs and followed by men either on foot or mounted on horses is a cruel practice which can not be justified . |
| 26 | Times are hard , and from the employees ' point of view the possibility of something is better than the certainty of nothing . |
| 27 | From a practical point of view the cost of administration can often make interest charging and collecting more of a minus than a plus . |
| 28 | Having said that , however , I have to say that from a Christian point of view the Hayekian ( or Friedmanian ) system is fundamentally at variance with what I conceive of as a Christian view of reality . |
| 29 | Hunting may well have been seen as a pleasurable distraction , but from a practical point of view the bow and arrow is more useful . |
| 30 | It was a fascinating experience but from the climbing point of view the ratios were n't terribly good . |