Example sentences of "point is [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My pick-up point is on Long Lane , opposite Blyne Street . ’ |
| 2 | The rock marking the crossing point is on the land of Knockmurran Farm , Coylton and was known as ‘ the king 's step ’ until the early years of this century . |
| 3 | The problem of sensing just where the actual zero pitch point is on the transmitter can be solved by setting up one of your pitch ranges so that simply pulling the collective stick hard back gives exactly zero pitch . |
| 4 | ‘ without lawful authority or reasonable excuse ’ The proof of this point is on the defence and they must prove on the balance of probabilities that the accused had it with him with lawful authority or reasonable excuse . |
| 5 | My next point is on a relatively minor announcement that was made on the same day that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State announced the changes in benefits and contributions . |
| 6 | The second point is on correspondence , I 'm absolutely certain that when a member of public writes in to any department , not necessarily highway , he expects and needs an immediate response , now I know you have , you have started the acknowledgement of our system , but I think it 's , it does n't go far enough , an acknowledgement card that simply says the thing is received and is receiving attention , needs to then indicate the individual to whom that matter has been passed for attention and that leads me to the third point and I think the general complaint on the public is that local government is seen as faceless people and I think we have to get in our mind to name people within our department , there 's not one mention about it in our promise , I think we need , unless I 've not read it , but I think , I think we , yes , but I think we need to mention people by name , senior people within the department who will respond to particular things and certainly where public comes into contact within the offices we must get around to wearing a name badge who says who that person is , people want to relate to a person and I think we can do that if we try . |
| 7 | This point is worth emphasizing . |
| 8 | This point is worth emphasizing not only because of its importance in the developing argument to follow , but also because it marks the way in which my use of ‘ the limit of an authority 's rightful power ’ differs from some common uses ( though it conforms with others , including the legal usage ) . |
| 9 | One further point is worth remembering ; the root definition is concerned with what is being achieved , not how it is done , and any inclusion of a ‘ how ’ statement should be shown as a constraint , eg improving productivity by the use of incentive bonus schemes . |
| 10 | This last point is worth amplifying as it does affect the poetry . |
| 11 | A detour to Red Point is worth making only in conditions of exceptionally clear visibility ; in dull or misty weather , it is a fruitless exercise . |
| 12 | The point is worth considering for a moment , partly because it is of relevance to greatly more than the present conceptual issue . |
| 13 | The point is worth making that historically it was out of a background of theological wrangling by Brahmin priests over the nature of " Brahman " that the young prince , Gautama , rebelled exasperated and went on to seek — and to find — enlightenment elsewhere thus becoming the Buddha . |
| 14 | 5.1.2 if so required in writing by the Landlord to make such payments by banker 's order or credit transfer to any bank and account [ in the United Kingdom ] that the Landlord may from time to time nominate There may be occasions where the tenant would wish to withhold rent or claim a set-off and while the point is worth negotiating , clause 5.1.1 is otherwise not unreasonable . |
| 15 | This point is of course another criticism of the individualist philosophies of utilitarians and of economists who saw early man as a kind of Robinson Crusoe trying to interact with nature in isolation and according to ideas and institutions which he had created on the spot . |
| 16 | Pushkin eating cherries before a duel ; Lenin working day in day out on Iskra ; one sentence or a newspaper ( the point is of course , not one without the other ) ; Benjamin on the requirement to denature your work ‘ like ethyl alcohol ’ lest it be of use to the other side . |
| 17 | The point is of some importance since a number of rules of procedure are growing to be applicable to Cabinet Committees and we ought to know where there is a real , useful distinction or whether it is merely the pragmatical difference that some are serviced by the Cabinet Office and some are not . |
| 18 | This point is of great significance in so far as any increase in the value of partnership property belongs to the firm . |
| 19 | Now , you may wonder , along with one of my guests this week , what the point is of having Punch lunches if their proceedings remain private , but we like it that way and , besides , it means that we get some seriously filthy gossip . |
| 20 | And self-knowledge at this point is of inestimable value in strengthening oneself against the conflict response . |
| 21 | This point is of more than academic interest since there are , in fact , quite significant differences in the functional organization of apparently homologous structures in different species . |
| 22 | The point is of some significance because a duty to balance the interests of present and future members would involve an expansion of the directors ' discretion , in effect , allowing them to justify their actions by reference to the well-being of the enterprise even though they are contrary to the interests of the existing members . |
| 23 | This point is of course relevant in any field situation where the researcher is studying persons in whose culture he or she does not participate , and the need to avoid offending established beliefs and values is taken for granted in anthropology texts such as that by Rynkiewich and Spradley . |
| 24 | While the first point is of little real consequence except to the typographer the second means that if you only have 10 point and 12 point but want 14 point you are going to have a real problem ! |
| 25 | This point is of more than theoretical significance . |
| 26 | CPRW believes this point is of fundamental importance because although in planning terms many large , static caravan sites like Meadow House are considered to enjoy ‘ permanent ’ consent , the caravans themselves can not be construed as being ‘ permanent ’ in the same way as are brick and stone built properties . |
| 27 | The point is of some importance : it would seem to follow that the end of the book was a hasty afterthought . |
| 28 | I 'm sorry , I just wanted to make a couple of points in response to erm things that people have said in relation to my opening statement , erm Mr Brook er mentioned the fact that er none of the employe none of the new settlement proposals of which he was aware , erm included an employment element , erm I just wanted to place on record the fact that our suggested reworking of policy H two does provide for an explicit land er amount of land for employment purposes , erm as part of the new settlement location , I wanted to say that because I , I 'm not invited to appear on your employment day , and I do feel that this is an important component of the the H two strategy , and clearly that employment component will be drawn from the Greater York allocation , the second point , Mr Sexton erm I believe said that in his view you could not find a site for a larger new settlement er within the or outside the Greater York er greenbelt , erm which would not result in physical coalescence with the existing villages in the area , now I 'm not sure whether he was referring to any particular size of larger new settlement , but I invite you to look at the er land range at one to fifty thousand er map of the area , and you will see that the area outside the greenbelt is characterized by erm a very rural area with sporadic villages , and my believe is that there are erm sites available within that area which could accommodate a larger new settlement , the planning point is of course the larger the new settlement becomes , I think the less that that the reduced number of sites you will have available to accommodate erm that proposal , because of its scale , and the third aspect I want to comment on Mr Cunnane and Mr Thomas erm said that Barton Willmore had not made a need argument for the new settlement , well if I 'm not mistaken that 's what we spent most of this morning discussing under policy H one , and I do n't erm I do n't wish , and I do n't suppose that I 'd be invited to repeat the comments made by Mr Grigson this morning , I do n't think there 's any need for that , but that establishes in our mind very clearly there is a need for a new settlement in the range of two thousand to two thousand five hundred dwellings , erm in the period up to two thousand and six , and I wo n't say anything more on that . |
| 29 | As it stands , this organisation does not make clear how the parts relate to each other , what the development is , or even what the point is of some of the parts ( why should there be a special section devoted to her final novel but not the others , for example ? ) . |
| 30 | The point is of course that the puzzle itself is false in setting up an impossible situation . |