Example sentences of "[noun] point for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Conservative Party was thus preserved intact , and the fact that it was able to provide a rallying point for the middle and lower middle classes was arguably one of the main bulwarks against political extremism in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 2 | The rallying point for the counter-attack against the deployment of sexuality ought not to be sex-desire but bodies and pleasures . ’ |
| 3 | Dada was to be a rallying point for abstract energies and a lasting slingshot for the great international artistic movements ’ . |
| 4 | The last of those three comments was , it is true , written almost fifteen years ago , long before the more than ‘ adequate ’ gay images of My Beautiful Laundrette or Law of Desire or Torch Song Trilogy , but I think the general point stands : before we stampede to dispense with ‘ identity ’ , let us consider whether it still has its uses as a rallying point for political action . |
| 5 | There was virtually no Polish middle class to act as a rallying point for the upper and lower classes , to act as a focus of opposition to Prussian policies . |
| 6 | In the years that followed , the German bourgeoisie gained considerable economic and industrial power , but did not struggle against the Junkers since they regarded them as the very backbone of German society ; the Junkers , even though they were already ‘ pensioners of economic history ’ were a convenient rallying point for Völkisch opinion and as such had no particular reason to adapt to the changing economic structure of Europe or Germany . |
| 7 | The principal objective of the campaign is to encourage walking by the promotion of demonstration pedestrian priority projects , which would act as models of good practice and thus provide guidance to local authorities and , metaphorically , a rallying point for pedestrians . |
| 8 | Ironically , the autarkic model foisted by Stalin on his charges in the 1940s to maintain their isolation from one another and their dependency upon him had , by the 1960s , become something of a rallying point for regimes who in no other sphere enjoyed any tangible measure of independence . |
| 9 | Given these premises , then , and Moffat 's distaste notwithstanding that it would imply ‘ democracies reduced resort monarchy as weapon against Communism ’ , one wonders what else , apart from outright rejection , the US might have done when the French turned towards ex-Emperor Bao Dai : at least as a rallying point for non-communist Vietnamese nationalists and , of course , as someone who might be expected to be more amenable to French influence than Ho Chi Minh . |
| 10 | By the late 1970s this avowedly elitist tendency had provided an attractive and powerful rallying point for those in English studies who saw it as their function to " uphold the finest academic and cultural values " . |
| 11 | But in 1900 Plekhanov 's group , augmented by Lenin and Martov , set up Iskra , an émigré journal designed as a rallying point for like-minded Social Democrats . |
| 12 | This point can be more clearly illustrated by considering the prolonged controversy surrounding the effects of modern farming methods on the rural landscape-This has created as much , if not more , acrimony between farming and environmental interests in recent years , with the destruction of traditional landscape features replacing the extermination of birds of prey as a rallying point for public attention . |
| 13 | The importance of the Serbian Church as a rallying point for Serbs , both within and outside the Ottoman empire , can not be too strongly emphasised . |
| 14 | As we shall see , this may well have been politically motivated to the extent that the relics of the archbishop so recently and brutally murdered by Cnut 's countrymen were perhaps serving as a rallying point for discontent in the city . |
| 15 | The data point for multimers with the same actual size L are connected . |
| 16 | Marks around Torrs Point and Gypsy Point for decent catches of codling to 4 lb . |
| 17 | This would also be the feedback point for a process development in which the company is its own customer . |
| 18 | This would also be the feedback point for a process development in which the company is its own customer . |
| 19 | This is a common entry point for damp |
| 20 | At the same time it will create a new entry point for its server line with a family of low-cost 80486-based machines designed for file server applications . |
| 21 | Often they gave priority to foreign markets outside Europe , usually aiming at the USA as the biggest and best entry point for a global marketing strategy ; this might involve buying struggling American companies , which continued to make losses . |
| 22 | Lowering of the entry point for payment from the 30 point on the Jarman scale — Jarman has suggested that 16 is more appropriate — and the use of more payment bands might be considered . |
| 23 | There is only one entry point for spaceships into the world within the planet . |
| 24 | The fact that is the recognition point for trespass depends on the knowledge that there are no other words beginning with tresp in the language . |
| 25 | I do n't know what you call the boss to be right drag point for |
| 26 | The work is varied : the main objective being to act as a liaison point for our Moscow office . |
| 27 | On a holiday trip last year we were averaging 40 mpg on cheap French diesel fuel ( another bonus point for the diesel if you like to take your car abroad ) in the superbly comfortable big Citroen . |
| 28 | This is a form that we asked you to complete and send down , and some people have done it , and some people hadn't. so should get er , a bonus point for that . |
| 29 | They have a 12-point deficit to claw back from the first Gold Cup leg at Glasgow , and judging from Sunday 's encouraging performance against Edinburgh , they should be able to clinch the bonus point for an aggregate victory . |
| 30 | Do I get a bonus point for getting everyone under the south east ? |