Example sentences of "[prep] the point of [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Nikko v MEPC ( cited at 13.8.1 ) the expert arranged for the point of law to be decided as a preliminary issue at a formal hearing at which he was addressed by counsel and himself assisted by a Queen 's Counsel . |
| 2 | A given word can be seen as the point of intersection of a bundle of different strings of associations , all of which contribute to its function as a sign . |
| 3 | Identify a member of staff with responsibility for producing a newsletter and acting as the point of contact for those on the mailing list . |
| 4 | additionally , she acts as the point of contact with the various agents handling the magazine , Hospitality . |
| 5 | He attempted to link his social-systems analysis to Freud 's analysis of the super-ego as the point of overlap between social , cultural and personality systems . |
| 6 | For the majority of those who experience Hamlet today the play 's textual medium is paramount as the point of reference to what Hamlet may be . |
| 7 | Thus that most typical mid-Victorian scientist William Thompson , Lord Kelvin ( typical in his combination of great if conventional theoretical power , quite enormous technological fertility and consequent business success ) , was clearly not happy about the mathematics of Clerk Maxwell 's electromagnetic theory of light , which is regarded by many as the point of departure for modern physics . |
| 8 | This was hardly a crucial ultimatum but , coming from a moderate , indeed sympathetic Frenchman , it suggests that the French , generally , were beyond the point of no return ; while for the Vietminh , with assorted military forces estimated at 60,000 , having already lost Haiphong as the point of entry for many of their weapons and in danger now of facing overwhelming French fire power in Hanoi , the temptations of a pre-emptive strike , even if it was an act of desperation , must have been irresistible . |
| 9 | At the same time , as de Lattre was to repeat constantly to mostly more important Americans , France was an ally and an ally , moreover , that was not far off the point of victory in Vietnam . |
| 10 | The multiplicity of levels , the over-elaboration of consultative machinery , the inability to get decision-making completed nearer the point of delivery of services and what some describe as unacceptably wasteful use of manpower resources were recurrent themes in most of the areas where we worked . |
| 11 | Here , as in Schelling , Something like the notion of pride in suffering is validated on the side of the hero , but , as against that , the validity of the point of view of the socio-political complex is asserted with equal force and disastrous — necessarily tragic — consequences . |
| 12 | However , for highly anisotropic materials the non-uniformity of stress near the points of attachment of loads becomes important as in the end effect for tensile tests . |
| 13 | As can be seen , in the isotropic case the irregularities of stress near the points of application of the load are smoothed out within about one lateral dimension , that is , the central part of the plate is under uniform stress . |
| 14 | The eruptions , however , occur directly above the point of strain in the asthenosphere where they happen — meaning that a line of volcanoes and volcanic islands occurs to the landward side of the colliding plates . |
| 15 | The compositions of the two phases and do not correspond to the two minima , but are measured from the points of contact of the double tangent AB with the Gibbs free energy curve . |
| 16 | If the radius of curvature of the bent beam is R then Euler-Bernoulli theory gives EI/R = M , where I is the moment of area of the cross-section and M the bending moment in the central section of the beam far from the points of application of the loads . |
| 17 | It tells the story of what happened , ‘ examining the strike from the points of view of each of its major groups of participants ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ The tests that the Government want to adopt , I think , fail from the points of view of the teachers , the children and the parents , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Her latest book tells the story of a village from the points of view of eight of its inhabitants |
| 20 | This chapter considers the history and development of the Oxford Polytechnic Modular Course between 1972 and 1988 from the points of view of academic innovation ; the process of validation and professional recognition ; the ‘ fit ’ with institutional and national planning ; and the means of effecting change . |
| 21 | It also seems clear from the case that a car could no longer answer the description ‘ new ’ once the mileage it had travelled under its own power significantly exceeded the distance from the point of manufacture to the dealer . |
| 22 | A range of bases are supplied from the point of manufacture to be held in stock at a satellite colour mixing unit built within the customer 's own site . |
| 23 | Will the Home Secretary confirm that , aside from the point of law to which he draws our attention and which will soon become sub judice , the judgment described Home Office procedures as reflecting no credit on the Home Secretary , and called the treatment of that asylum seeker a disgrace . |
| 24 | I think they have very little say from the point of diagnosis to treatment of anything . |
| 25 | Sometimes the light is carried to and from the point of observation by optical fibres . |
| 26 | The transportation of chilled foods from the point of production to the point of sale has posed problems for a great number of catering supply companies . |
| 27 | Again and again , Tracy upstaged Gable by returning from the point of death with a weak smile until Gable finally dropped Tracy and yelled , ‘ Die , goddammit , Spence ! |
| 28 | From the point of view of the people of the Gorbals in the Thirties , fox-hunting and psychoanalysis would have been practically indistinguishable concerns of the rich in the Sassenach South , of the ‘ high heid yins ’ of the world — an expression of the poor in Scotland then , which Ralph Glasser uses . |
| 29 | From the point of view of the issue of law , there can be no doubt as to the influence both of the constitution of 1937 in the period following its enactment and of the influence of Roman catholic teaching on legislation prior to that date . |
| 30 | The most telling one , from the point of view of this study , was found only as recently as 1893 in the Brestimont Collection . |