Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | The critical significance of this from the point of view of the future of the Maastricht Treaty relates to Article 236 of the Treaty of Rome . |
| 2 | The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point , which is not very different from the point that I was making about what the governor of Brixton prison knew several months before those IRA terrorists broke out . |
| 3 | Matthew includes stories which are the least reliable from the point of view of history . |
| 4 | The space given to book reviews is relatively generous from the point of view of a newspaper proprietor , but coverage in relation to what is published is ( with the exception of fiction ) minimal . |
| 5 | However , the angle at which it is applied makes it very risky from the point of view of defending yourself . |
| 6 | As to the capital allowance , I was interested in the point made by the hon. Member for Ashton-under-Lyne , and I agree with the comments made by my hon. Friend the Member for Beaconsfield ( Mr. Smith ) in his intervention . |
| 7 | The fact that the two hospitals were less than three miles apart , that they had a combined acreage of 375 acres , that they were outmoded from the point of view of treatment , and that both had ‘ spare capacity ’ because of the continued decline in the long-stay population meant that there was much to be gained from merger . |
| 8 | That difference , while immaterial from the point of view of teaching , is vital from the research point of view . |
| 9 | Third , and perhaps most interesting from the point of view of cellular analogies to memory , by the early 1980s it had been shown that a form of associative LTP is possible . |
| 10 | The case is also interesting from the point of view of the reason shown for the dismissal . |
| 11 | The idea that the features of a dialect which are accommodated to are those which are most salient , and that those which are most salient from the point of view of a LE speaker are just those which are most different from LE , fits perfectly with the observation that young black speakers in " chattin' Patois " are focusing on the Jamaican basilect — the variety which is most different from Standard . |
| 12 | Why after the earlier failures did the military rising of 1820 , ‘ risky to the point of being ridiculous ’ in the opinion of one of the conspirators , nevertheless succeed ? |
| 13 | Thus housing in a poor state of repair can not be brought back into use and marginal property is in danger of deteriorating to the point where it ceases to be habitable . |
| 14 | Dicey was clear on the point , observing that |
| 15 | It is difficult to be certain from the passage whether Hezarfen believes there to have been official muftiliks at all in the fifteenth century , but he is clear on the point that the arrangements for whether formal or informal , were similar in the three cities . |
| 16 | Harman J was quite clear on the point . |
| 17 | ‘ What 's going on ? ’ she said , and hoped her thoughts were transparent to the point of invisibility . |
| 18 | ‘ And he is generous to the point where he would be without money himself to help someone . |
| 19 | Others , like Jon Swain and photographers Tim Page and Don McCullin , will admit to finding the war with its helicopters and guns exciting to the point of compulsion . |
| 20 | The Left was often unrealistic to the point of silliness ; it failed to appreciate that the USSR was a power with interests of its own which it would pursue , regardless of the feelings of Soviet supporters in Britain . |
| 21 | Abrupt to the point of rudeness yet fiercely protective of Althorp , Diana 's grandfather earned the nickname of ‘ the curator earl ’ because he knew the history of every picture and piece of furniture in his stately home . |
| 22 | Some of this undoubtedly derives from Niki 's background , which is proper to the point of pedantry and very much old Austria . |
| 23 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 24 | And er it was interesting to the point of view of their attitude to Britain then and er you know they were isolationists of course , you see . |
| 25 | Their habits , modes of thought , patterns of speech , style of drafting will have rubbed off on one another to the point where but a few free or tough or independent spirits resist mutation into a sludgy administrative amalgam . |
| 26 | The parricide probably occurred in different parts of the globe , where groups were at the first stage in the evolution of Homo sapiens , It is probable that the killing was done , although Freud is not insistent on the point , if the horror of the actual deed has been faced emotionally and the resistance to the idea that it was a deed is not based on emotional resistances . |
| 27 | But on April 1st the worriers will find that the NHS is still firmly in the public sector — financed from taxation and free at the point of delivery . |
| 28 | It will continue to be true to its founding principles , available to all and free at the point of delivery , ’ she said . |
| 29 | Liberal Democrats remain steadfastly committed to the original aims of the NHS : to enable everyone to live free of the fear of illness , injury and disability ; to provide health care free at the point of delivery and regardless of ability to pay . |
| 30 | Many of the benefits of the Welfare State were provided at no direct cost to the consumer ( ie they were free at the point of use ) although , of course , the cost was met by the taxpayer . |