Example sentences of "point where [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you follow it along from the historical site it leads you to a perfect waterfall , and then to a point where flat grass lies between the vertical gorge sides . |
| 2 | With the advent of linguistic research on sign language from the 1960s onwards , attitudes towards universality of sign language changed considerably , often to the point where mutual unintelligibility between sign languages was reported , with researchers at pains to identify sign languages as completely different from each other . |
| 3 | There comes a point where increased loudness results in reduced clarity . |
| 4 | This might be explained by sub-lithospheric thermal anomalies causing uplift without penetrative magmatism developing to a point where volcanic activity occurs at the surface . |
| 5 | Prior to the meeting , the IWC 's scientific committee had said that the population of minke whales had now recovered to the point where renewed commercial hunting could be carried out on a sustainable basis . |
| 6 | He is happy to write about the monarchy because he believes royalty is ‘ the point where divine qualities become ordinary human qualities ’ . |
| 7 | But a small extra quantity of water could enhance the greenhouse effect to the point where present conditions would result . |
| 8 | It stands at a point where firm ground lies close to the river Derwent , and from olden times has been the site of an important river crossing , first by ferry , later by bridge . |
| 9 | Iveco requests that the process of European integration should advance to the point where suitable pan-European structures will be established for companies as well as for markets . ’ |
| 10 | Streat congratulated MacArthur on his ‘ momentous ’ achievements and then warned him against encouraging Japanese competition to the point where strong antagonism was aroused in western and eastern countries . |
| 11 | Happily the coal traffic was revived to the point where pre-strike tonnages were exceeded , although the number of individual collieries served was vastly reduced . |
| 12 | This is the break-even point where total cost equals total revenue . |
| 13 | In Chapter 18 , we showed that the equilibrium level of income is determined at the point where total withdrawals from the flow of income ( S + T + M ) are just equal to total injections into that flow ( I + G + X ) . |
| 14 | This is an important point where chronic mentally ill people are concerned , since many lack the confidence and social skills to make a telling case for their needs to be met . |
| 15 | Now he had nearly reached the point where darting mist roared to almost touch his head , like stabbing , jabbing tendrils of motion . |
| 16 | The north gate is presumed to lie at the point where modern Northgate Street cuts the line of the wall ; a Roman street underlying the modern one here would seem to confirm the correctness of this assumption . |
| 17 | ‘ We failed to see there would come a point where additional leisure would become more stultifying than satisfying and that the mass of men would be incapable of absorbing any more , ’ wrote the Harvard sociologist , David Riesman . |
| 18 | It appears that the bottom of Roe 's old shaft was believed to be in the region of 88 to 100 feet below the point where Deep Level was taken off . |
| 19 | In the later Middle Ages as more and more families became armigerous , the abuse of arms by illegal assumption grew to the point where corrective action was necessary if the dignity of possessing a valid grant was not to be eroded beyond reclamation . |
| 20 | Further out , Mace believes these portability issues will become redundant as chip technology evolves to the point where multiple architectures can be implemented and supported on a single microprocessor . |
| 21 | I have so far dealt only with what might be considered extraneous matters which are of little concern to the non-collector , who can read and enjoy a book without worrying about endpapers , half-titles , advertisements and the rest ; though even the ordinary reader must reach a point where bibliographical matters begin to impinge . |
| 22 | However , because of the high levels of use , particularly during the dry periods of spring and early summer , and also because the courts have lain idle while the issue of land ownership was resolved , the surfaces have deteriorated to the point where complete refurbishment is necessary . |
| 23 | The intuition behind this optimal strategy is straightforward : it is optimal to sell all or nothing — all when the current price is higher than the price that one can expect to get on future sales , nothing otherwise ; it is optimal to produce at the point where marginal cost equals the expected price on sales . |
| 24 | The issue really concerns whether we can capture the point where social reality actually alters so that people either side of that line have structurally different resources and social relations . |
| 25 | Is it a matter of class between a ‘ gentlewoman ’ and a duchess , a friend and a patron , ie , the point where social class and personal relations do and do n't intersect . |
| 26 | This seems to be the case in figure 9.1 , for example , at the point where national assistance changes over to supplementary benefit . |
| 27 | It may be built up into shore features without undergoing movement along the beach or , more commonly , it is transported along the beach to a point where natural factors allow it to accumulate and to be built up by wave action . |
| 28 | Populism starts at the point where popular democratic elements are presented as an antagonistic option against the ideology of the dominant bloc . |
| 29 | To give an example of how inadequate official testing can be , at Swansea , where a hell of a lot of people use the sea for recreation , until 1989 it was not disclosed that the official testing point in the sewage outfall pipe was above the point where commercial waste was joining the system . |
| 30 | The relationship between central government and local government further illustrates this point where local government will have the power to make policy and spend public money but within limits set by Parliament and central government . |