Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] point [Wh adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , there 's always been a genuine interest in the Arts Association as a point where the university , those people involved in the university , can hear about what 's taking place in the arts and also participate in some aspects of the advisory panels . |
| 2 | ‘ I am absolutely satisfied that the biopsy needle could not have been responsible for the rupture in the wall of the aneurysm , which was on the far side from the point where the needle entered , ’ said Mr Miles . |
| 3 | Hence , even where force is used in self-defence in response to the first use of violence the employment of a greater degree of force than that used by the attacker , or the continued use of force beyond the point where the attacker is willing or unable to continue the attack would not be seen as legitimate in law . |
| 4 | The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour . |
| 5 | As in all business calculations , the cost of obtaining such information needs to be balanced against its benefits , ( and against the consequences of limiting the search to a point where the forecaster does not know whether the information foregone is more or less than marginally useful ) . |
| 6 | Example 44 is from ‘ Vissi d'arte ’ in Tosca at a point where the orchestra plays the melody ( small notes ) while the singer weaves a web of narration in different ways — reciting , joining the orchestral melody , forming a decorative counter-melody , etc. — all within the space of a few bars : There is great skill here , yet nobody seems to have recognized it for what it really is — the solution for preserving melodic and formal unity while at the same time using words with freedom and flexibility . |
| 7 | You keep the line dressed and straight behind the float and a certain tension at the point where the float tip protrudes from the surface so that the slightest movement of your wrist just lifts the float fractionally without interfering with its progress downstream and you watch it lift slightly and settle and feel in your bones — if you 've executed the hold-back right — that it will surely sink to a fish before travelling another inch . |
| 8 | Leave some slack at the point where the cable enters slack at the point where the cable enters the floor or ceiling void , to allow it to be bedded in a recessed chase cut into the plaster at some future date . |
| 9 | Leave some slack at the point where the cable enters slack at the point where the cable enters the floor or ceiling void , to allow it to be bedded in a recessed chase cut into the plaster at some future date . |
| 10 | For transfection , 100μg plasmid DNA was mixed with 25μg Lipofectin in a total volume of 50μl and administered to mice by tracheal instillation in two loads by insertion of a metal applicator , adapted from a 25-gauge blunted syringe needle , through the mouth and into the trachea to the point where the main bronchi branch off . |
| 11 | The monkey gingerly ran its fingers along wires to the point where the electrodes had been inserted in its brain . |
| 12 | At the cessation of the solo passage , if the instrument continues to play but only has a subordinate part , it is a good plan to place an asterisk at the point where the prominent passage ends . |
| 13 | The equation of a straight line is given by where x and y are the coordinates of any point on the line , a is the y coordinate of the point where the line cuts the y axis ( x=O ) and b is the tangent of the angle between the positive x axis and the line , measuring anticlockwise ( Figure 4.4 ) . |
| 14 | In fact , we were beginning to pack the place to the point where the landlord was extremely worried because there were far more people in than should have been . |
| 15 | It is our wish , as ever , to build better relationships with these agencies , and develop levels of mutual confidence to a point where the flow of information would be much greater than it has been . |
| 16 | The behaviourist approach is repetition and the drilling to the point where the student automatically makes the correct response . |
| 17 | Raskolnikov has of course outraged the human being in himself too ; the pad pad pad of the hunter and hunted relationship with Porfiry is intertwined with self-pursuit to the point where the murderer actually makes the running in the second of the three long interviews , arriving unsent-for and demanding interrogation ‘ according to the rules ’ , if interrogation there must be ; which leads Porfiry to exclaim : ‘ Good heavens ! |
| 18 | While most reggae DJs rapidly rise in popularity only to sink within a year , Shabba 's following has swelled over the past four years to a point where the reggae market is too small to contain him — witness the shooting and tear gas panic last year at the Brixton Academy , or January 's trashing of Tower Records , London , during a personal appearance . |
| 19 | c ) Consider installing a depth gauge post at the point where the road regularly floods . |
| 20 | In the 1950s the redoubtable Eva Crackles , a Yorkshire teacher , was gathering grasses at the point where the Leven canal crosses the site of an ancient lake , now long vanished , but clearly just surviving when the canal was cut in 1802 . |
| 21 | Beyond Inverewe is Poolewe , a picturesque village overlooking the head of Loch Ewe at the point where the rushing River Ewe enters the loch . |
| 22 | The highest pressures exerted on the rock are connected with breaking waves , but the pressure varies with the distance between the point where the waves break and the cliff . |
| 23 | One light is fixed to the left side a ¼ mile before the point where the falling gradient changes to level and two lights , one above the other , 40 yards before reaching the level . |
| 24 | This will result in self-regulation of the use of water to the point where the health of the individual , the family and the public at large , will suffer . |
| 25 | It is impossible for the builders to get a platform to the point where the sign is to be sited . |
| 26 | If a man who can generate pretty decent clubhead speed were inadvertently to use a women 's ball , the result would be higher trajectory with some distance loss — the clubhead will have compressed the ball beyond the point where the ball achieves its most efficient velocity . |
| 27 | You use them , the handles must be fully opened , and the chain placed squarely around the pipe , with the wheels on the point where the cut is to be made . |
| 28 | The bedstead , descending the narrower stairs from the second floor , had become firmly wedged between the banisters and the wall at the point where the stairs turned . |
| 29 | The conflagration began in the lower half of the square at the point where the houses are set back a little from the pavement . |
| 30 | That is , the time taken to regain track , equals the time from the facility at the point where the track is regained . |