Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [prep] the point of " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that in this respect the governors themselves considered the appraisal principally from the point of view of trying to bring about improvements for the school . |
| 2 | Sometimes , a judge will be particularly impressed by a mellifluous and seductive plea put up on behalf of an accused and will sentence leniently to the point of mistake . |
| 3 | Controlling production by massive ‘ bribes ’ in the form of aid to Third World drug-producing countries in exchange for specific measurable target reductions in production and controls on local drug merchants requires major intergovernmental agreements and even so will not prevent the illicit manufacture close to the point of consumption of man-made ‘ designer drugs ’ . |
| 4 | Half an hour after the intruders had gone , a horde of volunteers arrived — since ‘ the Forty-five ’ Scotland had had no militia — and a cannon , dragged from the town on to the Point of St Mary 's Isle , fiercely engaged a supposed ship which turned out to be a rock . |
| 5 | Controllable : Random distribution especially to the point of use invites other problems . |
| 6 | But when you 're going to that exit there if you get to that position and you have n't give a sig given a signal , that 's the point , just after the junction there at the point of the junction , to give a left-hand indicator signal , mainly for people waiting there . |
| 7 | On the other hand , it can also be allowed to run its course , carrying the support up to the point of actualization of the infinitive 's event , which produces the " subsequent actualization " sense ( He managed to get free ) . |
| 8 | Focusing the strike exactly on the point of impact is essential . |
| 9 | Although it is usually true that if the interests of the covenantee and the covenantor are satisfied then so is the public interest , it is important to realise that in some cases the courts have chosen to examine the restraint primarily from the point of view of the public interest rather than from that of the parties . |
| 10 | Surely , if the earth were moving , an object dropped from a tower would no longer hit the ground immediately beneath the point of release . |
| 11 | For the people of Pakistan , Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi commands respect almost to the point of worship . |
| 12 | By diminishing the outward evidence of his authority almost to the point of invisibility , he demonstrated to the people and perhaps more importantly to himself that he could perform his duties not only without resort to force but without any discernible support at all : like Hugh Clifford 's Sir Philip Hanbury-Erskine choosing to deal with rebellion not as a governor but as ‘ a man ’ , he was effacing not himself but his institutional context . |
| 13 | We can run through the argument again from the point of view of an outside observer . |
| 14 | In contrast the development of local management schemes purportedly seeks to enhance local and community control of schools by bringing financial control closer to the point of professional and institutional decision-making . |
| 15 | Clear the soil down to the point of origin , take a firm hold and wrench the growth away — never cut , no matter how resistant it is . |
| 16 | But it is extremely unreasonable to suppose that all ( perhaps any ) human beings act from that motivation , either , and if morality is to be a generally human phenomenon , it is simply a mistake to equate it from the beginning with such exigently Kantian formulations , and it is a mistake even from the point of view of the human sciences . |
| 17 | There appears to be no policy in relation to dementia either from the point of view of the sufferer or the problems that might follow for other owner-occupiers . |
| 18 | For that reason , straw as a fuel is likely to be most efficient and economical when used in heating close to the point of production . |
| 19 | This allowed us to explore the process of secondment more generally , from first approach to application up to the point of departure some six to 23 months later . |
| 20 | Data from the patients who withdrew were included in the analysis up to the point of withdrawal . |
| 21 | A bout of sickness and diarrhoea exacerbated the problem intensely to the point of Darren refusing to eat at all and becoming extremely weak and debilitated . |
| 22 | In a diagram : Verbs such as try evoke a movement towards the beginning of the infinitive event but do not reach it , whereas verbs like manage take one all the way up to the point of actual realization . |
| 23 | So you get , if you like , a development here er of presidential authority and the perception of the presidency both from the point of view of incumbents and from the point of view of the American people and gradually in the twentieth century you get an increasing focus an increasing focus on the presidency as the engine of government , that it 's the president who makes things happen , it 's the president who fixes things , it 's the president who responds to crises and as the crises become more frequent and the crises become more intense so the focus on the president also expands and the Buchanan view is now no longer tenable , the Buchanan view it 's not possible for any president to play the dignified monarch . |
| 24 | It follows that the defendant will be entitled to the interest it has earned on deposit up to the point of acceptance . |
| 25 | An early Southern Hemisphere proposal to bring the scrum back to the point of introduction every time it moved backwards more than a metre and a half — in other words depowering the scrum has been abandoned . |
| 26 | We are considering an institution supposedly deeply loved and revered by the British public almost to the point of mystical attachment . |
| 27 | Referring back to that list of priorities led me to address this thorny issue once more , only this time less from the point of view of a recording being merely compared with other recordings ( or some mean recorded standard ) , than the level of execution which the scores themselves would appear to invite . |
| 28 | The result is that the hammer or the bullet is pressing against its target for a period , perhaps about a hundredth of a second , which is very long compared with the time which is required to conduct the energy away from the point of impact in the form of waves of sound or stress . |
| 29 | Those staff people who measure technical perfection ( often internal audit ) acquire extraordinary power even to the point of terrifying those they are meant to assist . |