Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ideally , we should like the government to ensure that the economy is on the Pareto-efficient frontier , shown in Figure 15–2 , but take responsibility for making the value judgement about which point on this frontier the economy should attain . |
| 2 | What is persuasive in this case is a consistent series of answers given by the minister , after opportunities for taking advice from his officials , all of which point the same way and which were not withdrawn or varied prior to the enactment of the Bill . |
| 3 | The idea of individuality and the idea of specificity have to be seen in conjunction with such ideas as the idea of possibility and the idea of unity of biographical time , both of which point to certain experiental modalities . |
| 4 | At that date there was no precise definition of which points in space-time lay inside a black hole and which lay outside . |
| 5 | The immediate impetus came from Cromer , the inhabitants of which pointed out that Sir Bartholomew Read 's sixteenth-century £10 was sufficient for only ten boys , and that a new school for eighty or a hundred might be built for £250 . |
| 6 | ( From which point we must not fail to understand the high importance of crypto-amnesiac inputs , as we shall see ) . |
| 7 | The situation in the traditional poem , as exemplified by Sidney , is an I — She one , where the pronouns reveal the gap between the lover and his mistress ; in Donne , as I have shown elsewhere , l it is an I-Thou , and above all a We/Us/Our relationship , where the lovers exist , after the consummation , as a unit , a model to others , from which point Donne 's wit takes off in a brilliant sequence of rhetorical strategies . |
| 8 | The voyage continued on from Tenerife towards the equator , from which point Gould began his researches in earnest . |
| 9 | The store manager believed these qualities were innate , whereas the personnel manager believed they developed as a person developed into an adult , from which point they could not be altered . |
| 10 | Within another two miles we can pick out the inverted ‘ L ’ pattern of one end of a long forest where it touches a B road , adjacent to which point two minor roads feed in at T-junctions ( K , picture taken from south of track — with apologies for the slightly confusing cloud shadow . ) |
| 11 | The Old Frog had further insisted that his son command British troops , on which point the Duke had also been forced to yield , though only on condition that reliable British officers were appointed to serve on the Young Frog 's staff . |
| 12 | And there are many others at which to point camera . |
| 13 | What can I do when there exists no object , no stolen thing at which to point and say , She 's taken my this or that ? |
| 14 | It happens at the ascent to the slow movement climax ( track 10 from 2′30″ ) and in the scherzo ( track 11 from 1′25″ and again from 3′29″ ) , at which points the accumulating tension of Liszt 's long paragraphs receives a nasty jolt . |
| 15 | I kept just killing time until it had gone eleven o'clock and all the cinema-goers had gone in for the late shows , at which point I decided to call it a day . |
| 16 | Pilots should be encouraged to make an assessment during the final turn of how much airbrake they will need as they start to straighten up for the final approach , instead of waiting until the turn is completed at which point it is already too late . |
| 17 | At which point she unlocked her ball and chain . |
| 18 | After four months back in traffic however , the discovery of further traces of blue asbestos on parts of the Pullman underframes , caused the set to be impounded again … at which point InterCity took the initiative to run its own refurbished VIP stock on the Scenic Land Cruise trains , albeit with Pullman Rail contracted to continue booking the trains . |
| 19 | Stock market sources said that the Hoare Govett buying dried up after about 60 million Ferranti shares had been traded , at which point Smith New Court stepped in and remained an aggressive buyer at 56p until the close . |
| 20 | At which point Mr Gorbachev 's strategy of turning the USSR into a prosperous society in which intelligent Russians can take pride will be doomed . |
| 21 | At which point I asked Mr Heseltine what he was up to . |
| 22 | ‘ At which point an editor would say , that is not how it works . |
| 23 | Boycott was asked for ‘ constructive questions ’ but according to the chairman Brian Walsh , ‘ he had none or declined to ask any ’ at which point the former England opener left . |
| 24 | He was being given the right of reply , it was pointed out , at which point he put the phone down . |
| 25 | There is a moment here when Fred Pearson 's Shotover ( looking like a raffish , siren-suited version of Shaw himself ) says of his daughter , Lady Utterword , that she is afraid that she has no heart to break : at which point Jennie Stoller 's stately , voluptuous Ariadne throws himself at his feet with a wrenching poignancy . |
| 26 | Unfortunately his foot was in it at the time and I slammed it , at which point he pulled out a badge and said he was a cop . |
| 27 | Party officials half expected the trade talks to break down eventually , at which point Mr Abe would make his entrance . |
| 28 | They will survive unscathed and largely unregulated until their activities unleash another financial disaster ; at which point this book will be a useful starting point for moppers-up . |
| 29 | We can imagine the formation of such a chemical bond as requiring that a spring be compressed to bring the substances close to one another , at which point they are held together by a catch , as the jack is held in a jack-in-the-box . |
| 30 | At which point the lyrics make an exciting switch to : ‘ I tried to beat heem , but he beat mee … ’ and so on . |