Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] to the point of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick could n't help wondering what had occurred to make his mother so possessive of her children , so overly-protective to the point of obsession . |
| 2 | Graham the guitarist is still dry to the point of death , only showing signs of life when a football appears . |
| 3 | The Left was often unrealistic to the point of silliness ; it failed to appreciate that the USSR was a power with interests of its own which it would pursue , regardless of the feelings of Soviet supporters in Britain . |
| 4 | As a nation we are now obsessed to the point of paralysis with rules and regulations . |
| 5 | ‘ A very large beetle ’ , she will say , as if she would n't have bothered me about a smaller one ; or ‘ The steps were slippery ’ ; or merely ( which strikes me as cryptic to the point of tautology ) , ‘ Something nasty ’ . |
| 6 | Now most of this is completely predictable to the point of boredom , ritualistic knockabout . |