Example sentences of "a [noun sg] point in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it passes over a toll point in the road ( essentially a wire loop buried in the surface ) a radio beam from the loop will interrogate the number plate and feed back the vehicle number to a central computer . |
| 2 | The computer could be used to rescale the image pixel values so that the lowest value in the image ( 25 ) was interpolated onto the lowest value that the display system could accommodate ( 0 ) while the highest value in the raw image ( 90 ) was mapped to the maximum value that could be held at a pixel point in the image memory bank ( 255 ) . |
| 3 | By contrast , he responded to heavy trade union lobbying by announcing a modest reduction of 0.5 of a percentage point in the employee 's CPF rate , to 22.5 per cent . |
| 4 | The Federal Reserve Board on Dec. 18 cut its discount rate by half a percentage point in an effort to inject life into the sluggish economy . |
| 5 | The close links between French and English art at the turn of the century are a reference point in The Letters of Lucien to Camille Pissarro 1883–1903 , edited by Anne Thorold ( £75 ) , containing a wealth of previously unpublished material . |
| 6 | In approximately half of the cases , the parent found out more directly : either the user told his or her parents , usually at a crisis point in the user 's career , for example , when undergoing ‘ turkey ’ during a time of drought ; or the parent found direct evidence of drug use , such as burnt scraps of tin foil , and confronted the user with this . |
| 7 | Well , I 'd find a branch of the bank where they had a cash point in the wall , and I 'd wait . |
| 8 | Edwards 's pursuit of a peculiar form of fame remains a debating point in the medical community . |
| 9 | Royal Mersey Yacht Club edged out Royal Anglesey Yacht Club by a quarter point in a team race in Mylnes . |
| 10 | The new invention is called MAX 10 and will determine a melting point in an average of three minutes compared to about 15 minutes using conventional methods . |
| 11 | In addition , registration does not create a priority point in the sense that the chargee is guaranteed priority from the date of registration ; this is because if A registers have charge on 21 January he has no guarantee that the company has not created a charge prior to this which may be registered within 21 days and thus have priority . |
| 12 | The unfortunate tragedy was a talking point in the district for several weeks but then slowly receded into the aeons of time . |
| 13 | Feller 's believe the ham will become a talking point in the Victorian market . |
| 14 | But perhaps the greatest personal satisfaction was earned by Gerard Larrousse as he watched Aguri Suzuki finish sixth in the Larrousse-Lola and poke a championship point in the eye of those who had recently stripped the French team of its hard-won rewards from last year . |
| 15 | It is a marker point in the course of learning to write history essays . |
| 16 | The energy enters the particle via a similar point ( laya centre ) which can be regarded as a vacuum point in the charge where the vortex field will not be deformed in any manner . |
| 17 | This solid , reliable book has a number of features to recommend it as a starting point in the discovery of Picasso , not least the interesting thematic chronological charts which cover topics such as ‘ Stages in the discovery and appropriation of primitivism ’ e.g. ‘ Autumn 1906 , Derain and Matisse return to Paris , each having acquired his first African mask ’ , and ‘ Stages of the revolution in papier colles ’ . |
| 18 | using IBM terminology , the SETL macro can be employed to indicate a starting point in the file and the ESETL macro to set a finishing point . |
| 19 | Directory Integrity Check then seeks an entry point in the package structure for each module which has been identified as a candidate for entry i.e. a package which is managed by the specified user and has an active DC for the module . |