Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet all around there is no-one listening , or more to the point reacting . |
| 2 | So far the ‘ live ’ forays of this ‘ grunge circus ’ ( sick , or more to the point sick ) have resulted in bans by outraged councillors in Portsmouth and Bristol and concerned universities in Edinburgh . |
| 3 | Short , bitter sweet and brutally to the point . |
| 4 | Short , bitter sweet and brutally to the point . |
| 5 | Also , and much to the point , it was farmed by the same obliging farmer , Mr Healey . |
| 6 | Moreover — and more to the point — if as literary intellectuals we feel frustrated at having no channel of access to the figures who exercise decision-making power in our societies , Mrs Lowndes shows us a society in which literary intelligence had direct access to such centres of power , by way of the conjugal bed as well as over the dinner table . |
| 7 | And more to the point he did n't disappear on a massive binge , and he gave all that money to his sister . |
| 8 | According to X/Open , it is looking forward to re-negotiating membership terms with Novell — and more to the point membership fees . |
| 9 | She was fed up with her life in London , a whirlwind of social engagements which recently had seemed unbearably shallow , and more to the point she needed time to put her engagement to Jonathan , or rather her decision to break it off , into perspective . |
| 10 | ‘ Yeah , and more to the point , she 's looking for me . ’ |
| 11 | And more to the point , what am I going to do about it ? |
| 12 | When , as is happening today , history is fragmenting politically and socially to the point of tribal conflict , culture must propose ideas with an international vision ; the moral worth of art lies in its internationalism , its capacity to weave differences together . |
| 13 | Macbeth , short and severely to the point , is not a play onto which you can get much spin , but what we are given here is a treatment devoid of ambiguity . |
| 14 | This becomes increasingly valuable during the final 16 weeks of the course , when our trainees will be getting closer and closer to the point where they become capable of managing the section , initially for the odd late shift , but very definitely with a view to being able to run the department outright by their final two weeks . |
| 15 | This is very astute criticism of Yeats : but more to the point is that Pound here confesses self-doubts such as he would have concealed from anyone he did not trust absolutely . |
| 16 | But more to the point , Shakespeare did n't envisage Agincourt being fully enacted in the first place . |
| 17 | The quote from the William Tell Overture in the first movement may be deliberately banal , but more to the point , I find that it actually is banal . |
| 18 | But more to the point , will they survive Courtney Love ? |
| 19 | The subject matter suggests Minoan Crete , but more to the point is the material of which the carving is made : it is gypsum , which is not found near Mycenae , but is found on Crete and was used extensively by the Knossians for embellishing their temple . |
| 20 | But more to the point , the flight and maintenance crews have great confidence in them and regard the reports they generate as being very important , contributing significantly to improved safety in the air . |
| 21 | What many islanders claim is less poetic , but more to the point . |
| 22 | but more to the point the Chicago Convention . |
| 23 | But more to the point she also hopes her children will be able to get a good education before heading off into the world . |
| 24 | The motel was made up of separate cabins wide-spaced and private among trees — but more to the point the cabin had its own phone extension and twin beds . |
| 25 | Single-minded devotion to one s own advancement , or to better pay , or to just one cause , strengthens one legitimate ingredient of the complex personal equation — but sometimes to the point where it eclipses and pre-empts the others . |
| 26 | Or , as much to the point but slightly differently , I want to be a father . |