Example sentences of "certain point the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Indeed , at a certain point the stories come to seem almost like pauses , moments of reflection perhaps , in a wider discourse that envelopes the written word , such as to make the readers of Celati 's narrative acknowledge something in common with Palomar listening to his blackbirds , uncertain which part of their communication is language , which silence . |
| 3 | But Hans Geissbehler from its agro-division says : ‘ At a certain point the responsibility of the company ends . ’ |
| 4 | William Troy in the Nation was similarly unable to find the right words to explain the greatness of It Happened One Night and he suggested that ‘ a good photoplay , like a good book or a good piece of music , remains always something of a miracle ’ and that ‘ beyond a certain point the mind is forced to bow down before its own inability to unravel and put together again all the parts of the shining and imponderable whole with which it is dealing ’ . |
| 5 | The new sociology of culture can be seen as the convergence , and at a certain point the transformation , of two clear tendencies : one within general social thought and then specifically sociology ; the other within cultural history and analysis . |
| 6 | Thus , beyond a certain point the marginal social benefit of further risk reduction will exceed the marginal social cost . |