Example sentences of "[noun] point the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between the blackout point and the whiteout point the light intensity should have no effect with a perfect device , which should ‘ see ’ the whole subject and nothing but the subject . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In order to describe them , therefore , we may be inclined to use as a reference point the linguistic norms of some well-described dialect such as ‘ standard English ’ . |
| 4 | Coen and Hickman dispense with the common practice of linking changes in NAIRU with changes in the natural unemployment rate , preferring instead to rely on demographic and other data to arrive at direct estimates of the natural rate , estimates which do not take as their reference point the behaviour of the rate of inflation . |
| 5 | It was well named : this was the edge of the Great Rift Valley , a gigantic dyke which cuts across the entire continent of Africa from the Red Sea to Mozambique , and from our vantage point the ground fell away , almost sheer , to the flat valley floor , some 2,000 feet below . |
| 6 | They remained as they were ; in some fashion they were communing , and I could sense from my vantage point the necessity that linked them . |
| 7 | Alongside the base , on every possibly vantage point the A15 could offer , thousands of enthusiasts paid homage . |
| 8 | After the first landing and during the taxi back to the take-off point the thief would be dropped off . |
| 9 | The debate was chaired by the Chancellor ; the motion was proposed by Professor Sir Douglas Hague , who took as his debating point the similarity between the University and prison systems . |
| 10 | Where the selector is dealing with a single service point the final order is a relatively simple operation . |
| 11 | Size of service point The most obviously appropriate locations for specialized material are large service points , where the catchment area is larger and where special collections are sometimes established . |
| 12 | At Dizzard Point the path runs through a last remnant of coastal oak woodland . |
| 13 | For people living round Hinkley Point the headlines were particularly frightening . |
| 14 | For this reason , when we heat glass to a temperature well below its melting point the shearing stress is reduced more than the brittle fracture stress and thus we can bend and shape and blow hot ( but not necessarily very hot ) glass quite easily . |
| 15 | But perhaps , more constructively , the results of this paper point the way to the appropriate modelling of economic behaviour when agents are not able to optimize for one reason or another . |
| 16 | Using this cut-off point the health and lifestyle survey reported that 27 per cent of men and 33 per cent of women aged 18 + could be classed as having psychiatric problems . |
| 17 | However , by taking such a high cut-off point the specificity and positive predictive value of the test were reduced . |
| 18 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |
| 19 | these are recommendations from a joint working party D of E of the erm local authority association and they are to almost unbelievable for us to consider and I can only assume that the that we must remember that this is really a response to what I call Heseltine 's last squeeze which was the idea of executive mayors and so in a sense lip service which has to be paid somewhere along those lines but it does recommend that we think seriously about cabinet govern government about single party committees and I ca n't imagine how anybody in their right minds would argue now that the cabinet government when they see what cabinet government leads to in Westminster and what de facto cabinet government leads to in majority ruled councils up and down the country erm , there is of course a I think a misleading er er brownie point the idea of relaxing restrictions on members allowances but members must realise why that is in there . |
| 20 | However , all the paths in the construction are directed ; that is , all the arrows on a path point the same way , away from the root . |
| 21 | He took as his starting point the capitalist world economy : |
| 22 | Norman Holland 's theory of reading ( 1975 ) takes as its starting point the text , but the text as perceived by the individual reader . |
| 23 | ‘ Here I Am ’ uses as it starting point the life experiences of children , through which God is initially revealed . |
| 24 | Members of the original project team took as their starting point the anticipated health care needs of the society in the 1990s . |
| 25 | Critics of this approach , while often accepting the usefulness of the Italian model in relation to Spain , have taken as their starting point the varied character of the Italian Fascist movement , its role as the militant defender of property and destroyer of the left , and the essential , rather than the external , characteristics of the Italian Fascist regime . |
| 26 | Contemporary discussions about British broadcasting have , almost inevitably , taken as their starting point the threats the new media pose to a well established public service broadcasting tradition . |
| 27 | His lecture took as its starting point the distinction drawn by the Wolfenden Committee between public and private behaviour , and what it thus considered to be the proper role of the criminal law in these areas . |
| 28 | Before turning to these matters , however , I shall use as my starting point the rather more advan-tageous conditions for executive leadership that exist in the United Kingdom . |
| 29 | The starting point the courts use in making financial orders is the one-third rule : that a woman is entitled to one-third of her husband 's joint income and capital . |
| 30 | ‘ Sexuality ’ has in many ways been most resistant to this challenge , precisely because its power seems to derive from our biological being , but there have recently been several sustained challenges to sexual essentialism , from quite different theoretical approaches : the interactionist ( associated particularly with the work of Gagnon and Simon , and in Britain Kenneth Plummer ) ; the psychoanalytic ( associated with the reinterpretation of Freud initiated by Jacques Lacan , and taken up by feminist writers such as Juliet Mitchell ) ; and the discursive , taking as its starting point the work of Michel Foucault . |