Example sentences of "up [prep] [det] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strength of the association between the mortality and morbidity was given by the slope of this line , indicating how much sickness goes up for each point increase in the death rate . |
| 2 | If one of them succumbed to the temptation to defect , it would very probably end up with fewer points than 600 because of retaliation by the other player ( most of the submitted strategies had some kind of retaliatory behaviour built into them ) . |
| 3 | If one of them succumbed to the temptation to defect , it would very probably end up with fewer points than 600 because of retaliation by the other player ( most of the submitted strategies had some kind of retaliatory behaviour built into them ) . |
| 4 | Some of the strategies entered in Axelrod 's tournament were much more sophisticated than either Remorseful Prober or Naive Prober , but they too ended up with fewer points , on average , than simple Tit for Tat . |
| 5 | To sum up on this point : with the advent of a child or children , a woman is bound to have her attentions divided between them and her husband . |
| 6 | Chairman I would like to pick up on this point about the identification of sites . |
| 7 | You can , up to a point ( and we did up to that point ) , protect yourself against them with jungle gels and mustard gases , but the trees give no mercy and there are hours of them between Staddajakkstugorna , a mountain hut on the side of Kapasluoppal , and Staloluokta . |
| 8 | Up to that point , says Mr K , ‘ we could n't let them win . |
| 9 | Up to that point I was very happy . |
| 10 | The implicit basis of child care practice up to that point was that no fundamental conflicts of interest between parents and children , or between families and the state , were at stake in such interventions . |
| 11 | Up to that point , the tapering of the blade had been continuous . |
| 12 | The announcement on the morning of 22 November of Mrs Thatcher 's decision to resign came as a dramatic surprise to the public because , up to that point , all the outward signs had been that she intended to stick to her initial resolve to contest the second ballot . |
| 13 | The book was certainly the most thorough document of a country made up to that point in time , and received accolades from all quarters . |
| 14 | Paul , asleep up to that point , springs vertically from the bed . |
| 15 | If we could be certain ( as we ought ) that every person of 16 had the opportunity to go on to further education or practical , examinable work , then we could drop the 16+ examination without loss , and with a possible simplification of the school curriculum up to that point . |
| 16 | Up to that point , reviews had been consistently agreeable and a touch of dissent was long overdue , if only to put the previous flattering write-ups into perspective . |
| 17 | The last eight miles had been the worst up to that point , and yet I had gone faster than ever before . |
| 18 | His employer paid him up to that point . |
| 19 | Up to that point it was multiple-dig and manual listening only . |
| 20 | A 4.10 is of doubtful advantage at more than 25 yards ( 22.5 metres ) but up to that point can be a very good gun in the right hands . |
| 21 | ‘ I mean , up to that point , I thought The Ventures were taking the guitar to its limit ; I did n't see that it could go any further . |
| 22 | Two members of the PAIN organisation went to Orkney to prepare a report on the events as they had happened up to that point , and to compare the reality with the guidelines . |
| 23 | Up to that point , he had hardly realized just how deeply he was involving himself . |
| 24 | It was Lucchese 's first shot of a game Newcastle had dominated up to that point , with both Kristensen and Kevin Sheedy having gone close . |
| 25 | I was doing quite well in the quiz up to that point , but my mind went a total blank on that one . |
| 26 | The move is helped by the invention of Mylar , a polyester-based film that takes the place of the brittle acetate — up to that point the only suitable produce for tape recording . |
| 27 | It 's in reasonable repair up to that point , but then it forks , one fork joining the Taverna road again , a short stretch that 's in good shape , and the other going down to the city . |
| 28 | ‘ Up to that point , all I was interested in was relieving myself any way I could , and the women were throwing themselves at me and it was great , it was pleasurable , no problem . |
| 29 | It was by far the most resolute action of his political life up to that point . |
| 30 | ‘ I mean , this is all stuff that Andy told me , so it could be just a story , but I 'd bet that up to that point it 's all true . |