Example sentences of "[prep] [det] point [prep] time " in BNC.
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| 1 | Families of those immigrants who came after that point in time were classed as illegal until the announcement of the new policy . |
| 2 | This type of relief is of great benefit to the retiring director upon the disposal of his shares in the company , providing he has kept a sufficient percentage holding of shares and has been a full-time working director until this point in time . |
| 3 | As I think you will agree when you have looked at all the evidence it may well not have been quite so simple in this case to determine what was the best for the girl , as we , looking back on events from this point in time , may think . |
| 4 | Right , and this is this little bit of it , now , made them come back to us and say , well but yes , that 's not enough on its own , or that 's too much on its own , or whatever , or there is no hope , you may as well forget about this because we 've already done the study , or somebody in Japan 's already written off , whatever , but from this point in time , let us , as the sales company , get the information together as it relates to . |
| 5 | The book was certainly the most thorough document of a country made up to that point in time , and received accolades from all quarters . |
| 6 | In one text Paul appears to be of the same view ; but in another Papinian takes the opposite line , on the basis that the testator had in mind not that payment should be made only if a condition of surviving to a certain age was met , but that payment should be deferred to that point in time . |
| 7 | It is a snapshot at one point in time and is therefore only relevant to that point in time . |
| 8 | This does not entail however , as Hirtle 1975 seems to suggest , that the infinitive must represent an event as referred to some point in time prior to its realization : if such were the case , it would be impossible to explain why to is needed in some contexts but not in others . |
| 9 | Now before we move further I 'd like to take this opportunity of expressing on your behalf our thanks to Hugh here for the service that he 's rendered our church to this point in time but particularly as the convenor of the Board of World Mission and Unity . |
| 10 | The postulate put forward in this study is that the potential meaning of to before the infinitive is more abstract than that found in the spatial use of the preposition , and can be stated as follows : the possibility of a movement from a point in time conceived as a before-position to another point in time which marks the end-point of the movement and which represents an after-position with respect to the first . |
| 11 | If units of good were constantly being cancelled by units of evil , ultimately mankind could be reverted to any point in time past , even to as far back as the beginning of life . |
| 12 | This view is similar to Hirtle 's description ( 1975 : 20 ) of the to infinitive as referring an event " to any point in time prior to its realization " , since to can be seen to evoke that which comes before the realization of the event . |
| 13 | Okay , at that point in time they had n't actually er taken |
| 14 | Secondly , Apple was very a very hungry company at that point in time and desperately needed a prop to hold the company up ( it was undoubtedly the LaserWriter that saved the company 's financial fortunes rather than any of its computers ) . |
| 15 | Alternatively as the accounts are being done at the end of the month at that point in time the benefit is used up so the rent could be charged to the profit and loss account directly . |
| 16 | Have you therefore reassessed the western relief road 's benefits on the base that y you will have now at that point in time both a southern A fifty nine , A one link and a southern northern link , if you want it for the A sixty one north of Harrogate . |
| 17 | You actually have three children under the age of seven , and if your husband died while they were still young , still in education , heaven forbid , but these things still do happen , it might be that you think that you would need more cover at that point in time , than later on , maybe when the children have left home . |
| 18 | So we have put a marker in the ground and said we are not going to move forward in the production investment phase until we are satisfied that we have a fixed price at that point so we are actually going to cap our liabilities for Eurofighter with a max price for the whole of the remainder of the programme and then we will fix the price and hopefully get some economies from fixing at that point in time before we move forward into the next phase . |
| 19 | Telling him you were pregnant at that point in time was the height of selfishness , ’ he went on . |
| 20 | She heard , as if from afar , the meeting-spiel : ‘ Basically … at this point in time … credibility … rationalisation … realistic … restructuring … |
| 21 | Looking back as an ordinary member , it is clear the buying out episode must have been irksome in the extreme and very wearing for a group of unwitting members who volunteered at this point in time to serve the Club and whose prime interest was a round of golf ! |
| 22 | To get to that point , there was a quantum leap to be achieved , the proverbial turning point in a young man 's life when fate or some other thing takes a hand , and it was at this point in time that June — whom he says he still believed was his sister — reappeared in the story as a catalyst to a decision that would ultimately prove to be the most important in his life . |
| 23 | The world does funny things but I can tell you that 's the furthest thing from my mind at this point in time . |
| 24 | It is not easy , admittedly , at this point in time , when the Commonwealth seems so obviously a fig-leaf for imperial decline , to credit the extravagant hopes that once were entertained of it as the foundation of everlasting British dominion — influence , as it were , eternally made flesh . |
| 25 | It should be evident to arty thinking individual that the problems facing our Planet at this point in time are the results of a commitment to a science and a philosophy based on erroneous assumptions about the true nature of reality , and that these assumptions are the products of a mentality conditioned to seeing only the separation , the apara , between all things , rather than the unity . |
| 26 | To expect Paul to call for the abolition of slavery at this point in time is to be guilty of unhistorical thinking . |
| 27 | In the latter years the Falcons owned by the Department of National Defence were seen as an un-necessary and additional expense to the Ministry of Transport JetStars , and at this point in time their future is uncertain . |
| 28 | I 'm delighted and I 'm sure you 'll be delighted to hear the advice of the business convenor that we suspend at this point in time . |
| 29 | Now note I 'm not asking at this point in time for a general opening . |
| 30 | At this point in time , I can see eyes inside some of the eggs and definite movement . |