Example sentences of "this point the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point the Headmaster resigned , to take up the Headmastership of Gresham 's School at Holt in Norfolk . |
| 2 | At this point the map can be sent to a hardcopy device such as a graphplotter , an electrostatic printer , an inkjet or matrix printer ( in descending order of quality and cost ) . |
| 3 | At this point the sons are painfully and traumatically initiated — that is , they are subjected to brutal assaults , frightening experiences , are deprived of their mothers and all normal support and , usually at the climax of these experiences , are symbolically castrated by means of some customary mutilation ( very often the rather close equivalent represented by circumcision , but otherwise by knocking out of teeth , pulling out of nails , loss of fingers , etc . ) . |
| 4 | At this point the runners in the junior race , which takes place just before the main race , turn round . |
| 5 | At this point the voltage drop across the emitter followers also increases causing a sudden small reduction in the available square wave voltage , which persists until the signal reverses . |
| 6 | While it is an oversimplification to view the first decade of operation as some kind of golden age , it is fair to say that until this point the EEC had worked fairly smoothly . |
| 7 | At this point the problem of context itself comes to the fore . |
| 8 | The enemy threatening that task is at this point the Philistines . |
| 9 | At this point the GP had felt that she could no longer help him , and she had given him the number of a marital counsellor . |
| 10 | At this point the interests of powers such as Britain , France , and the United States were identified with those of humanity as a whole . |
| 11 | At this point the Reporter does not have to account to anyone else . |
| 12 | Socially , at this point the significance of design as such is more or less lost : significance can only been seen in terms of problems solved or products produced . |
| 13 | At this point the alarm bells started ringing in the ears of the Middle Management along the coast , and mutiny was definitely on the cards amongst all grades of staff , not just the footplate men . |
| 14 | But at this point the story takes an abrupt turn , and takes us into territory that at first seems quite strange , beyond even our imagining , let alone our experience . |
| 15 | At this point the gunman became very agitated , said a spokeswoman for the TSB . |
| 16 | At this point the cycloaracylation process was discovered by Bayer , which made it possible to produce this type of substance . |
| 17 | At this point the butcher , turning to the vultures , calls : ‘ Shoo … |
| 18 | At this point the stunt that was being pulled off in the music found its visual equivalent rising to meet it . |
| 19 | ‘ They were about to , but at this point the man , seeing what had happened , panicked and made a run for it himself on foot . |
| 20 | At this point the contact should end . |
| 21 | At this point the school had to make a decision about the priority which this activity was to be given in the school 's development . |
| 22 | At this point the paths diverge . |
| 23 | At this point the effects of his negligence were overtaken by the effects of the second tort ( the armed robbery ) . |
| 24 | At this point the Manchester sales managers , along with Martin Hunter , have to depart as we are committed to doing some real work for the IFAs of the area in the more traditional brokers ’ offices . |
| 25 | At this point the strings were flapping against the fingerboard , and although this kind of treatment played havoc with the tuning it soon stabilised . |
| 26 | At this point the excitation switches almost instantaneously from phase A to phase B and the motor now produces a positive torque , causing the system to accelerate towards the phase B equilibrium position at 8=2n/3p . |
| 27 | At this point the demonstrators beleived he was on his way to prison . |
| 28 | At this point the guard announced , ‘ We will shortly be arriving at Gatwick Airport . ’ |
| 29 | At this point the layer of sediment is up to 2 km thick . |
| 30 | At this point the equivalences between classical and general relativistic quantities are collected and reviewed . |