Example sentences of "point the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point the number of steaks , chops and other meat ingredients are updated on the stock file . |
| 2 | This is not critical because at this point the winch driver is adjusting the power . |
| 3 | At this point the difficulties gradually increase , culminating on the upper wall above the giant , whale-shaped niche which gives the route its name . |
| 4 | It was well named : this was the edge of the Great Rift Valley , a gigantic dyke which cuts across the entire continent of Africa from the Red Sea to Mozambique , and from our vantage point the ground fell away , almost sheer , to the flat valley floor , some 2,000 feet below . |
| 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 | The editor of The Criterion , from 1923 and more insistently from 1926 , revealed himself as a writer with indeed a message , of a very bleak and uncompromising sort , affronting at almost every point the suppositions of secular liberalism . |
| 7 | At this point the stunt that was being pulled off in the music found its visual equivalent rising to meet it . |
| 8 | We will return to this later , but at this point the course of the Famine needs to be related very briefly . |
| 9 | At this point the old-looking young professor from Durham entered a European scene . |
| 10 | Up to this point the only political significance of racism had been that it provided a divided work force for employers . |
| 11 | ’ At this point the manuscript breaks off . |
| 12 | Labour wants the ‘ closest possible consultations ’ with Eastern bloc governments on their plans , a point the Liberal Democrats echoed with a motion critical of Mrs Thatcher 's hostility to what Mr Paddy Ashdown called ‘ closer integration with Europe ’ that would expand Britain 's ability to influence events . |
| 13 | At this point the Arsenal fans began to drift home , their evening well and truly over . |
| 14 | At one point the queue stretched four deep for more than a quarter of mile . |
| 15 | At this point the failure , the essential selfishness , of our social network becomes extraordinarily evident . |
| 16 | At this point the two girls just marched off the train , one of them picked up David , the other one picked me up , screamed Russian things at the soldiers — I have n't a clue what they were saying — and marched us back on the train and barred the door , while the Russian soldiers were standing on the platform screaming horrible things at them . |
| 17 | At one point the official line was that they were there to restrain the Americans . |
| 18 | She supplies the book 's hasty conclusion after the death at Lydiard Constantine of Philip — a partial picture of one side of the Battersea Grammar School Edward : At this point the people of Abercorran House — even Jessie and Aurelius- and the dogs that stretched out in death like blessedness under the sun , and the pigeons that courted and were courted in the yard and on the roof , all suddenly retreat from me when I come to that Spring in memory ; a haze of ghostly , shimmering silver veils them ; without Philip they are as people in a story whose existence I can not prove . |
| 19 | There were times at the Oval when both sides had thoughts of winning ; at one point the bookmakers quoted 100 to 1 against a West Indies victory , but a day later they were 5 to 4 when England 's Pythonesque second innings was at its nadir . |
| 20 | The only point the press reports missed was that Jim Prior was so unhappy that he almost threw in his hand and resigned . |
| 21 | We also discover at this point the reality of love at the heart of the sign . |
| 22 | Maybe , but the point the Bible is making is that ‘ without the shedding of blood there is no forgiveness of sins ’ ( Hebrews 9.22 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | At this point the storyteller is playing the trickster . |
| 25 | The enemy threatening that task is at this point the Philistines . |
| 26 | ‘ Working with Soul II Soul is definitely to this point the most rewarding experience I 've had as an artist and as a person ’ |
| 27 | After a certain point the wants which it is intended to satisfy have to be artificially created in the first place by advertising and salesmanship . |
| 28 | At this point the straw bolsters go back into the windows and the outer door is shut and locked . |
| 29 | There 's a Bruckner CD video where at one point the conductor is filmed doing absolutely nothing , whilst the orchestra is busy starting up a new paragraph of the music . |
| 30 | At one point the lies had begun to hurt so much that Terry Blamey ordered a total ban on press interviews . |