Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] the point of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Secondly , a number of views of this procedure can be considered relevant , eg from the point of view of the individual who is concerned with the speedy settlement of claims , the administrative assistant who checks the claims for errors , and the boss who is concerned with the effect on his status if a large number of false claims were to be made , and discovered outside the section . |
| 2 | There was no sound of impact and certainly no disintegration for when the water and the spray cleared away there was only the empty sea and curiously small waves , little more than ripples , radiating outwards from the point of impact . |
| 3 | To wire an ivy leaf , push half a length of wire through the back of the central vein , one third down from the point of the leaf . |
| 4 | Referring back to that list of priorities led me to address this thorny issue once more , only this time less from the point of view of a recording being merely compared with other recordings ( or some mean recorded standard ) , than the level of execution which the scores themselves would appear to invite . |
| 5 | So from the point of view of the consumer , there are few tests that can be done prior to purchase , to ascertain how well a product will perform when fitted into the car . |
| 6 | The first point that one would want to make in criticism of the gens theory is that , even if descent groups such as the Iroquois gens appear as undifferentiated communities from the point of view of an outsider , this is not so from the point of view of the member of a gens . |
| 7 | We are Muslims and my husband is my cousin , so from the point of view of tradition it is all right for me to marry him . |
| 8 | Can I just say , first of all , that I am the odd-speaker out in this gathering because virtually everyone else who has addressed you has done so from the point of view of their own particular expertise and occupation and those of you who know health councils will appreciate that they tend to take a pretty robust view of private care as it impinges on anything to do with health . |
| 9 | This can be important not only from the point of view of efficiency in design and use but also in improving the sales appeal . |
| 10 | It would appear , furthermore , that the policy of maximising firm value is ideal not only from the point of view of the shareholders , but also from that of society as a whole , since , by giving proper weight to projects with a future pay- off , it strikes an optimal balance between production for present consumption and growth . |
| 11 | Er that can be bad because if , if only from the point of view that when you get back you 've got nothing to talk about because they were there and saw and did it all you see . |
| 12 | The contradictions between the two modes of thought , house as women 's workshop , house as breadwinner 's retreat , have meant a conflict in architectural terms , not only from the point of view of interior decoration , but also in terms of the planning configuration of kitchen , dining room and living room . |
| 13 | Yes , well that only , only from the point of view that they 're being used so often , that they 're also almost becoming well can you think of any words that , that are that are that have been introduced recently into our vocabulary that have that have that have been acceptable in common language ? |
| 14 | Controllable : Random distribution especially to the point of use invites other problems . |
| 15 | Clear the soil down to the point of origin , take a firm hold and wrench the growth away — never cut , no matter how resistant it is . |
| 16 | We got votes against our proposals with no reasons given at all , you 've now got down to the point of having no reasons at all for opposing what we want to do . |
| 17 | It tends to encourage any tendency to the suppression of initiative , and to foster cautious conservatism , perhaps to the point of atrophy . |
| 18 | What is manifestly not disorganized in disorganized capitalism as a set of social relations is capital , either in abstraction or as a ‘ system force ’ in crucial locations , but especially at the point of production . |
| 19 | Whereas a sales tax is collected only at the point of final sale to the consumer , VAT is collected at different stages of the production process . |
| 20 | ‘ it is , in my view , clear that the court , in considering whether a continuing situation of one or other of the kinds described in section 1(2) ( a ) exists , must do so at the point of time immediately before the process of protecting the child concerned is first put into motion . |
| 21 | Within six seconds of the collision , one fell to earth among other aircraft , just below the point of impact . |
| 22 | His rider , Suzy , missed the piling and soared beyond Seth , landing forty-five feet away from the point of impact in a foetal position . |
| 23 | The result is that the hammer or the bullet is pressing against its target for a period , perhaps about a hundredth of a second , which is very long compared with the time which is required to conduct the energy away from the point of impact in the form of waves of sound or stress . |
| 24 | When a school is attacked , the fish may ‘ explode ’ away from the point of attack , in a dramatically simultaneous rapid movement . |
| 25 | Thus from the point of view of journeymen compositors in London and Edinburgh alike , there was an immediate sense in which the whole venture must have appeared socially alien launched in an atmosphere of middle-class philanthropy , pursued by young and perhaps slightly naive women of that class , and seeking to introduce to the trade young girls of perhaps middle-class , perhaps marginal , but not necessarily working-class origin . |
| 26 | This strategy calls for the researchers to follow cases through from the point of initial application . |
| 27 | For instance , in 1940 a British author of fairly conventional detective stories , Henry Wade ( who was in private life Sir Aubrey Fletcher , a magistrate and son of a full-time Metropolitan magistrate , and thus not unacquainted with police work ) wrote a book called The Lonely Magdalen , telling the story of a murder investigation seen largely from the point of view of the police officers conducting it . |
| 28 | Talk to Robin Slade and you know he 's a man who 's studied his sheep ; not from the point of view of winning awards with animals at the other end of a halter , but from a desire to produce the ideal carcass with that all-important round muscle . |
| 29 | I conclude that looking at the matter from the point of view of expense incurred and not from the point of view of loss to the employer no expense could be regarded as having been incurred as a result of the decision of the authorities of the college to provide this particular benefit to the taxpayer . |
| 30 | Yet the story of the development of the city 's housing schemes has never been told in full , and particularly not from the point of view of the original tenants . |