Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] to the point where " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the rail network has plenty of spare capacity and is environmentally more benign , the logical solution is either to subsidise rail fares , which the present government is obviously unwilling to do , or to increase the cost of motoring to the point where rail has the advantage ( and since rail is sometimes less convenient , it needs the edge on price ) . |
| 2 | All these factors — and many , many more which are now a fact of our fast-paced , deadline-packed daily lives — are still helping to create symptoms of stress to the point where a single encounter with an apparently dyslexic British Telecom directory enquiries operator can all but tip us over the brink . |
| 3 | This will result in self-regulation of the use of water to the point where the health of the individual , the family and the public at large , will suffer . |
| 4 | In those countries where it prevails , Marxist absolutism has led to the suppression of individuality to the point where dissent and criticism are crimes against the State and punishable by imprisonment or by internal exile , or madness to be treated in mental hospitals ; where art and science must conform to the State 's perception of their supportive purposes ; where the measure of morality is no longer ‘ what if this day thy soul is required of thee ? ’ but ‘ does it serve the system ? ’ |
| 5 | The aim , as Peter Hollins explains , ‘ must be to increase our level of performance to the point where , even if external factors turn against us still further , we will not only survive but prosper . ’ |
| 6 | There is no point in developing the demands of civilization to the point where the majority of people find the tensions too great to bear and react , through regression , to the primal horde . |
| 7 | What an international perspective can add is a sense of the contradictions or points of stress in the new structures : the attempt to shift the whole system by floods of detailed description and prescription and the consequent overloading of channels of communication ; the preoccupation with assessment to the point where it may overwhelm the teaching ; the ambivalent character of statutory syllabuses as being at once central regulation and individual entitlement ; the potentially disruptive and anomalous role of governing bodies which may act simply as local guardians of centrally determined norms , but may also be educated to accept more subtle and flexible views of what schools can and should do , and may develop the political clout to do something about it . |
| 8 | The monkey gingerly ran its fingers along wires to the point where the electrodes had been inserted in its brain . |
| 9 | Raskolnikov has of course outraged the human being in himself too ; the pad pad pad of the hunter and hunted relationship with Porfiry is intertwined with self-pursuit to the point where the murderer actually makes the running in the second of the three long interviews , arriving unsent-for and demanding interrogation ‘ according to the rules ’ , if interrogation there must be ; which leads Porfiry to exclaim : ‘ Good heavens ! |
| 10 | His hands moved over her with knowledge now , stroking , caressing , bringing her within minutes to the point where she was clinging to him , wanting only the satisfaction he could give her . |
| 11 | The locking Baldwin got better and better and , as he threw away the worries of his old shoulder injuries , he developed in confidence to the point where he outranked David Sims as Bayfield 's up-front ally . |
| 12 | Before the Americans were irrevocably committed , however , and before the French positions on the Chinese frontier were overrun , they could conceivably have strengthened non-communist national forces in Vietnam to the point where they had a better chance of competing with the Vietminh or even , biting on the bullet , the French could have tried to negotiate a settlement , no matter what alarm that prospect might have caused their American allies . |
| 13 | But whereas aesthetically the transformation and revitalization of conventions may be motivated ultimately , even in its classical forms , by a desire for a verisimilitude guaranteed by ‘ public opinion ’ , the need of the industry for new exploitation angles may exceed this aesthetic impulse , going beyond verisimilitude to the point where a series takes its significance not from an agreed or conventionalized similarity to the world , but from its difference to other series . |