Example sentences of "point in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The shows put on in Paris at the Salon , and in London at the Royal Academy , were a means of creating sales for artists at a turning point in the history of patronage ; as there developed a middle-class market for literature , so there developed a comparable market for art . |
| 2 | A high point in the novel is the altercation and huff with Gavin and his mates which precedes this : about the long holidays teachers get , or do n't get , about the homework they withhold , and about the rights of weans — children — and the rights of parents . |
| 3 | Fortunately , most of the crowd had been drawn to the main attraction of The Great Whirlo in the Variety Tent at that particular point in the afternoon . |
| 4 | In ‘ Goodnight Irene ’ , the latter had an outstanding hit , a key point in the development from traditional folk to modern in 1950 . |
| 5 | The important point in the above definition is the assertion that things which differ in some common qualities do nevertheless belong to the larger class . |
| 6 | The club have twice narrowly avoided relegation in the last three years , and survived last season only because of a bright start , but have yet to pick up a point in the present campaign after playing five league games . |
| 7 | But ‘ at some point in the future ’ , she wants to become again what she is trained to be — a general paediatrician , work that would inevitably involve dealing with child abuse . |
| 8 | While the Cold War evaporated as Mikhail Gorbachev , the Soviet leader , realised that there was little point in the USSR being a military giant if it remained an ‘ economic pygmy ’ , the world would not , Mr Roper said , necessarily become a safer place . |
| 9 | If competing ideas all point in the same direction , the politicians follow . |
| 10 | However , Sir Claus Moser , former head of the Government Statistical Service ( GSS ) , and Sir David Cox , a former president of the Royal Statistical Society ( RSS ) , identify the turning point in the history of British official statistics as a White Paper in 1981 entitled Government Statistical Services . |
| 11 | Administration officials argue that Mr Bush 's speech at the United Nations was in fact a turning point in the US efforts to ban the prodictoion of chemical weapons because it created an atmosphere in which the Geneva negotiations are likley to be accelerated . |
| 12 | A point in the Slaski Stadium would carry Bobby Robson 's team into the finals , and few Poles doubt their chances . |
| 13 | Curiously , Palin made a point in the commentary about how he was n't pretending that he was on his own or that there were not gruff acolytes kneeling at his feet as he spoke . |
| 14 | Oddly enough , there is a point in the new film when Greenaway puts the formalism on a back-burner , and seems to remember that he has hired actors - people , that is , who are skilled at projecting emotions . |
| 15 | This enables it to send video , audio and data from any point in the UK , via satellite , to closed groups of users . |
| 16 | And at one point in the conversation they touched on the kind of people who ought to become bishops . |
| 17 | There is no point in the act giving the manager only 5 per cent and then complaining he or she does n't turn up to their shows . |
| 18 | The Cartesian cogito — cogito ergo sum ( I think therefore I am ) — conventionally if somewhat simplistically marks a major point in the emergence of Western individualism . |
| 19 | At this point in the history of the evolution of mankind The Origin rejoins The German Ideology and Formen , although it continues to consider the themes of the family and the position of women in a way that had not been done before . |
| 20 | This conclusion enables Engels to make again one of the most important point in The German Ideology . |
| 21 | There is however an implied point in the discussion of the gens which , I believe , is justified in all societies principally organized by descent group ( though not necessarily all societies where descent groups merely occur as one among many other social institutions ) . |
| 22 | But perhaps the greatest personal satisfaction was earned by Gerard Larrousse as he watched Aguri Suzuki finish sixth in the Larrousse-Lola and poke a championship point in the eye of those who had recently stripped the French team of its hard-won rewards from last year . |
| 23 | This might be a radio or television programme or some natural phenomenon , for example when the sun or another star reaches its highest point in the sky . |
| 24 | Typically , a person suffering from jet-lag will feel tired at some point in the daytime and yet be unable to sleep well at night through difficulty getting to sleep or waking early . |
| 25 | Quite suddenly , at a crucial point in the conversation , there was a rush of wind , causing the first fall of leaves in the season . |
| 26 | At some point in the second half of next year , and perhaps even earlier if President Mitterrand decides to bring forward the abolition of French controls , the Government is going to be faced with an inescapable decision . |
| 27 | Deeside Dragons , still searching for a point in the Heineken British League First Division , have released the Americans Tim McGee and Tim Caddo . |
| 28 | At this point in the twentieth century we should no longer be so innocent . |
| 29 | Giving her reasons for that the mother said that she wished access to be resumed at some point in the future , that D remembered her as the natural mother , and there was a bond between them which would be cut off or damaged by adoption . |
| 30 | Symbolically , a 12-ft statue of Ceres , the Greek goddess of plenty , presided over yesterday 's extraordinary scenes from a pigeon-soiled vantage point in the bank 's wall . |