Example sentences of "point when [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Minister of State , Scottish Office , shakes his head , but he knows that the Government conceded this point when they announced that they would allow colleges to anticipate up to 10 per cent . |
| 2 | Mittler and Mittler ( 1982 ) make a similar point when they argue that a clear distinction should be drawn between the concepts of ‘ partnership ’ and ‘ involvement ’ . |
| 3 | But the pollsters have a point when they complain that at election time they are like a doctor asked to make a diagnosis over the telephone . |
| 4 | We may scrape and spit and dab and rub , until the point when we declare that the truth stands plain before us , thanks to xylene and propanol and acetone . |
| 5 | As Leonard commented in Police Gazette , ‘ I 'd rather sleep with ashes than with priestly wisdom , ’ which has even more point when we understand that the ashes referred to are those of the victims of the Holocaust . |
| 6 | ‘ But there must be a point … when you 've hosed off all the muck and the glaze and the bits of overpainting and your musks of Araby have done their work and you get to the point when you know that what you see before you is what the chap would have seen before him when he stopped painting all those centuries ago . |
| 7 | There must come a point when you realize that all these confidences are piling up , useless , in the store room , like the possessions elderly people sometimes keep for no purpose . |
| 8 | Sir : While agreeing with much of what Jonathan Glancey say in his article on ‘ A-road ’ architecture ( 4 October ) , I think he misses the point when he says that no one cares about it . |
| 9 | Derek Malcolm might have a point when he says that our idea of ‘ glamour ’ has also changed — making it possible for the 90s woman in the street to look glamorous , too . |
| 10 | But does not Dr. Jackson have a powerful point when he says that the new system — This is a man working in the system . |
| 11 | The right hon. Member for Henley made a powerful point when he said that all we were doing was trying to introduce an envy tax . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman seemed to miss an important point when he said that head teachers were worried . |
| 13 | Nye ( 1984 ) made the same point when he observed that the agenda for examining the power of US firms in the 1980s was little different from that of the early 1970s , despite the relative loss of US power . |
| 14 | There was , in fact , a social element present in the Treaty of Rome itself , but Mr Hattersley had a point when he suggested that the last ten years saw capitalism and the pursuit of free trade relegated within the EEC to a secondary position . |
| 15 | However , Feargal Quinn makes a valid point when he argues that to talk about farm-based commodity production and the factory based processing to meet consumer demands as if they are one industry is a misleading simplification . |
| 16 | Lee had felt the emotional voltage in the room heighten to a point when she thought that Philippa would slam the door behind her , hard , but the door closed as gently as if there were a baby asleep in the house . |