Example sentences of "[adj] point when [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | West Ham hit back with a memorable goal from Robson , and Alvin Martin came close to snatching an undeserved point when he headed against a post three minutes from time . |
| 2 | The Minister of State , Scottish Office , shakes his head , but he knows that the Government conceded this point when they announced that they would allow colleges to anticipate up to 10 per cent . |
| 3 | One reason why the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem was so important for Wittgenstein was because he could not dissolve it without revising the view he had taken on this point when he wrote the Tractatus . |
| 4 | Dr Robert South emphasized this point when he declared shortly after the Restoration that the Anglican church ‘ glories in nothing more than that she is the truest friend to kings and to kingly government of any Church in the world ’ . |
| 5 | But as the afternoon progressed the tide gradually turned in England 's favour , and former British Youth champion Warren Bennett secured their crucial point when he defeated Richard Dinsdale by two holes . |
| 6 | Perhaps they 'd have a little more to contribute on this very awkward point when he came back . |
| 7 | The right hon. Member for Henley made a powerful point when he said that all we were doing was trying to introduce an envy tax . |
| 8 | In their famous study of kinship in Bethnal Green , Young and Willmott made this very point when they said , in their introduction , |
| 9 | The hon. Gentleman seemed to miss an important point when he said that head teachers were worried . |
| 10 | The hon. Member for Gordon ( Mr. Bruce ) made an important point when he referred to the need for health and safety to be designed in from the beginning . |
| 11 | And EC Commission Ray MacSharry brought the row to boiling point when he resigned his negotiating role yesterday . |
| 12 | Edward Thomas may not have known that he was also making an ecological point when he pinned down so precisely the atmosphere and feel of these places : |
| 13 | Nye ( 1984 ) made the same point when he observed that the agenda for examining the power of US firms in the 1980s was little different from that of the early 1970s , despite the relative loss of US power . |
| 14 | The resistance of Ulster was also linked to its business roots with such slogans as " Industrial Ulster is united " or " They mean business " , and Law made the same point when he described in Norwich a recent meeting that he had addressed in the Ulster Hall : |
| 15 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd made a more important and realistic point when he said Britain should be able to work very well with Mr Clinton . |