Example sentences of "point just " in BNC.

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1 This scheme was relatively modest in comparison with many others such as the £7million scheme , for which contracts were this year placed to resignal fifty-six route miles from Cambridge to Royston , Bishop 's Stortford , Fulbourne ( on the line to Newmarket ) and to a point just south of Ely .
2 Burdened by hindsight , by a chronic fear of becoming bloated and self-indulgent , this indie generation tries to freeze-flame development at the point just before ‘ it all went wrong ’ , and so turns its back on the few things that went right .
3 The cursor will be returned to its original size and moved to a point just outside where the highlight had been depending on the key tapped .
4 A point just below the big toe .
5 It is caught by a hook on the bobbin case carrier at a point just above the eye of the needle when on its upward stroke .
6 The top of the ‘ face ’ then runs along the Kuril Islands to Japan , staying always on the ocean side of these chains — down through the Marianas — Saipan , Guam , Palau — to a point just east of the Spice Islands , which played so large a part in the saga of Magellan and his attempted circumnavigation .
7 Farther north , Fifth Army 's forces had advanced astride the Ypres-Roulers railway to a point just short of Zonnebeke .
8 To reiterate the point just made , this is not an argument about the functional necessity for all societies to have a category of ‘ crime ’ but an argument about the positive qualities of what happens to be defined as crime under capitalism ; indeed , the argument is usually combined with the assumption that under socialism there would be no such thing as crime .
9 Even if I 'm dead , there 's no point just standing here ; and if I 'm not , I 've got to escape .
10 There is a point just outside the village to the east ( i.e. the direction you have come up from ) , from where everyone tells you the views are best .
11 Twelve point just says B , sorry .
12 After being given clearance to land , Miranda , following her instructor 's directions , started her approach ; she throttled back to reduce speed and control her descent as she flew towards the threshold — the point just before she intended to touch down .
13 The effect of a barrage or sea-wall being built from , say , Gibraltar Point just south of Skegness to Holme in Norfolk , would create a tide-free inland lake of approximately 400 square miles .
14 Your dustbin will be returned near to where you left it , or if possible to a convenient point just inside your gate if you left it on the pavement .
15 The exhaust gas is mixed with a little air from a small pump at a point just before it enters the canister .
16 He hits the standing man at a point just above the heel , bringing him to the ground .
17 Collingwood was unable to locate this but it might , perhaps , have been a working on the Kernal Vein , at a point just above the Levers Water Waterfall/Red Dell " water-race , at N.G.R. SD 29 NE 2843.9900 .
18 He understands that the flight is only temporary and the bird must come to rest on solid ground again at some point just as the next stanza provides a landing area for his mind .
19 She could make it quite convincing just by throwing yearning smiles across the stage and focusing her gaze at a point just over his left ear , so that the hard brown eyes did n't impinge on her concentration .
20 Seventy per cent of it is going into farmer 's pockets , right , even on goods like m m manufactured goods , we pay V A T on er manufactured goods and that V A T pays for our contribution to the European Community and most of that contribution , about seventy per cent of it , goes to farmers tt erm , right so the next economic costs to European Community right are fourteen point nine billion alright that 's the size of the dead weight loss that 's the inefficiency right , of agricultural support right , losing fifteen billion dollars a year , right , just going down the er , the Swanny okay Just a couple of point just before we er before we close .
21 Yes yeah erm no there 's little point just now , go on then she 's thought of something else .
22 Okay you have to get the point just on
23 Well I 'm probably regarded as being of a point just to the right of Ghengis Khan on these matters .
24 Cardiff were denied full points just five seconds from the whistle in their Fourth Division game at Scarborough .
25 None of the points just mentioned is of any great significance in itself .
26 The points just made have their imprint on higher education in fairly obvious ways .
27 Out half Ian Wray kicked 11 points just to make sure .
28 Parked somewhere nearby would be a couple of police vans with sniffer dogs and cordoning off parts of the street had become so commonplace that the cops had left reels of white tape and tripods at strategic points just in case .
29 That was one of my points just now actually .
30 But at the end of the day , there simply is no point in punishing criminals if you ca n't catch them , and I think it is absolutely critical that we should be devoting our attention er , to policing that catches criminals and prevents crime , and I entirely support the , the points just made about the er , initiatives within the community particularly in the schools , because I think it is absolutely critical that we er , promote a society where crime should not pay .
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