Example sentences of "point of [noun] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the capital the police told employers to work their men to the point of exhaustion the day before the terms were to be made known in order to leave them too weary to protest . |
| 2 | Goody traces the development of written forms in early Greece until the point when alphabetic literacy enabled ‘ groups of writers and teachers … to take as their point of departure the belief that much of what Homer had apparently said was inconsistent and unsatisfactory in many respects ’ ( 1968 , p. 46 ) . |
| 3 | In summary , though choice theories appear to take as their point of departure the priority of individual autonomy , when we step beyond their criterion of personal responsibility , as defined by the concept of voluntary consent , to the question of the kinds of obligation which the state will enforce , we find that choice theorists admit that they introduce a style of moral paternalism at odds with liberal values . |
| 4 | This perspective takes as its point of departure the discrepancy between the law 's assertion that shareholders control corporate managers and the reality of their more or less total failure to exercise any of the responsibilities of ownership . |
| 5 | She thought again what a point of defence the tower was , commanding the countryside , and then she saw that there was a back road leading away from the tower , narrower , bumpier even than the drive to the front door , which snaked quickly down the hill and out of sight . |
| 6 | In point of interpretation the line taken in ex p Osman looks correct . |
| 7 | A point of contrast a century and a half later is provided by the 1671 hearth tax return , by which time the seventy householders had grown to 122 . |
| 8 | This might seem to be moving away from Golyadkin , but in point of tone The Double and The Possessed draw closest to one another , and to Don Quixote , in the ludicrous materialities of preparation , and in their juxtaposing of very particular odds and ends with an airy universality which in lesser hands would be emptiness . |
| 9 | The rural sociological literature of the 1960s of the diffusionist school has demonstrated to the point of overkill the problem of the laggard and the small farmer ( Rogers & Shoemaker 1971 ) . |
| 10 | During the eighteenth century the State acknowledged his right to punish to the point of death a serf who displeased him , to enrol him in the army , to exile him to Siberia , to trade and dispose of his human property as he pleased . |
| 11 | In point of fact the reverse ruled : I was constantly having chits thrust at me giving me a blow-by-blow account of " Charlie 's " state of health , but I was never made aware of the seriousness of Eddie 's wound , and somehow I did not know until I visited him in hospital later that morning . |
| 12 | At a time of ‘ awful crisis , when constitutions of kingdoms are on the point of dissolution the stain of the blood of Africa is no longer upon us ’ thus removing ‘ a mill-stone about our necks , ready to sink us to perdition ’ . |
| 13 | At the point of referral the system is primarily concerned with pupils whose behaviour is ‘ aggressive , ’ ‘ extrovert ’ and ‘ disruptive . ’ |
| 14 | This chance is increased by 10% for each point of Strength the character has over 4 and reduced by 10% for each point of Strength the character has below 4 . |
| 15 | This chance is increased by 10% for each point of Strength the character has over 4 and reduced by 10% for each point of Strength the character has below 4 . |
| 16 | There was no water , electricity or other services , the shed and yard were full or rubble and , worst of all , from a railway point of view no track remained on site . |
| 17 | From the finance company 's point of view a contract of guarantee is the less satisfactory , for two reasons . |
| 18 | From an environmental point of view a bolt ( galvanised or stainless steel ) causes less impact than a peg . |
| 19 | From this point of view the formation of a distinctive and vibrant disability culture is a vital component in the construction of an accessible route to empowerment . |
| 20 | From this point of view the struggle to remove barriers could be regarded as the seed bed for human arts . |
| 21 | In response to Labour questioning , Mr MacGregor said : ‘ Without any question I am keen to ensure that both from the passenger and freight point of view the north of England and Scotland gain as much benefit as possible from the Channel Tunnel and the Channel Tunnel high-speed link . ’ |
| 22 | Eliot seems to have ignored these suggestions because for him the physical and social landscape of London was no more than a screen on which to project a phantasmagoria that expressed his own personal disorders and desperations ( partly sexual , as one might expect , and as the drafts make clear ) ; whereas Pound seems to have supposed that the subject of the poem was London in all its historical and geographical actuality , much as the city of Dublin was from one point of view the subject of Joyce 's Ulysses . |
| 23 | From my present point of view the question of whether the manufacturers on opposite sides of a human arms race are enemies of each other or identical with each other is irrelevant , and interestingly so . |
| 24 | From the trader 's point of view the position is straightforward . |
| 25 | From the client 's point of view the assessment provides an opportunity to express their difficulties in a structured manner , and make links between specific problems and various areas of their life , both past and present . |
| 26 | From a socialist point of view the government was barren , yet incomes policy and fiscal restraint were beginning to produce their intended effects and the expansion of world trade was benefiting the economy . |
| 27 | Now you will see from your point of view the moon will be will be about half it will be it will be more more than that I would think . |
| 28 | From the AIB point of view the exercise meant devoting the time and effort of a number of experienced personnel to activities that served no benefit to the Branch . |
| 29 | From an animal welfare point of view the chasing of a fox or a deer round the countryside with dogs and followed by men either on foot or mounted on horses is a cruel practice which can not be justified . |
| 30 | Times are hard , and from the employees ' point of view the possibility of something is better than the certainty of nothing . |