Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [prep] the point of " in BNC.
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| 1 | My topic was press coverage of the IQ controversy , which I thought distorted to the point of newsworthiness . |
| 2 | Ruby Tiger had looked on the point of collapse after her thrilling victory but quickly recovered . |
| 3 | By the late seventies the middle class had expanded beyond the point of safety and disaster did strike . |
| 4 | I had a distinct impression that many of the organisers had had professional theatre experience and that , naturally , their point of view was coloured by this , while the teachers had arrived at the point of realising the potential of drama as a tool of education . |
| 5 | On that day , 25 August , the Germans had seemed on the point of victory . |
| 6 | It would hardly cross his mind that she had gone past the point of that to something altogether more serious and far less retrievable . |