Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] [adv] to [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably , the rational shareholder would do this up to the point at which marginal benefit was equated with marginal cost . |
| 2 | In sharp contrast to most of his contemporaries , Pétain seemed unambitious almost to the point of self-extinction ; when offered the post of Commandant to the Rifle School , he refused because it would have meant his promotion over the heads of more senior majors . |
| 3 | Burton 's local fame grew in contradicting this up to a point — but only up to a point . |
| 4 | What A View of the Present State of Ireland saves its worst condemnation for is those Old English who had ‘ degenerated ’ and gone native even to the point of abandoning their original names and taking Gaelic ones . |
| 5 | It will be seen that English law does this up to a point , and in the process seems to accept social-defence arguments as reasons for departing from several of the principles set out in Chapter 3 . |