Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] to [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps more to the point , he is a corrupt man . |
| 2 | But only up to a point , you see . |
| 3 | Only up to a point : without oil Saddam Hussein would not have invaded Kuwait ; nor would his invasion have threatened the West 's security . |
| 4 | McFarlane took it to heart also , but only up to a point . |
| 5 | Tolkien 's opinions here are clear only up to a point . |
| 6 | Burton 's local fame grew in contradicting this up to a point — but only up to a point . |
| 7 | An American president can decide to focus on domestic policy only up to a point ; events in the wider world , leaders of other countries , have a habit of eating into time that the president thought he would spend on other things . |
| 8 | The three businessmen-politicians can be lumped together , but only up to a point . |
| 9 | Even the conservatives in the House could not be entirely depended on , for all but a few of them were no more than ‘ Hooverites ’ to use Stockman 's contemptuous label ; they were keen on budget-cutting only up to a point and were anxious that the budget should be balanced , but they had no stomach for swingeing tax cuts — the main article of the supply-side faith . |
| 10 | The answer is , yes it is , but only up to a point . |
| 11 | ‘ Though that is true only up to a point — last year after the dog fox was killed on the road the vixen called for three nights , the saddest sound I ever heard . ’ |
| 12 | But only up to a point . |
| 13 | That is true only up to a point . |
| 14 | That is true , but only up to a point ; I have found the procedures laborious at times but usually vital , and SCOTVEC 's full-time officers invariably helpful and cheery . |
| 15 | Well only up to a point Lord Copper . |
| 16 | Criticism and discussion must , therefore , be solicited and encouraged , but never for its own sake , and only up to the point that decision is taken . |
| 17 | But you paint only up to the point on which your own marginal benefit equals the marginal cost of the paint you buy and the time you spend . |
| 18 | The watchword was always ‘ differentiation ’ which was plain enough up to a point : policy would not be made en bloc , but country by country , depending . |
| 19 | The number of their supporters , if not activists , was enormously enhanced by the way in which the Vichy régime had mobilized the country 's youth in patriotic but hitherto innocuous associations which now underpinned the revolution , perhaps even to the point where youth was as critical a factor in the Vietnamese revolution as it was , at the same time , in Indonesia . |
| 20 | This in itself created a double problem because the action of this scene moves from a point where Nicholson is talking normally right through to the point where he is stoned and slurred through smoking marijuana . |
| 21 | Satisfied that it would bring them exactly down to the point he wanted on the starboard side of Lord Jim , he asked — " How do you feel about your husband ? " |
| 22 | The assertion that Derrida 's work incurs a form of relativism is thus exactly to the point , though its implications are rather different from those generally assumed in such a complaint . |
| 23 | Rather more to the point are questions like " Are unc equal ? " |
| 24 | However , in Turner 's songs , it 's all woven seamlessly together to the point where even an ESDA test could n't reveal the joins . |
| 25 | Let's think about the unsuccessful hospitals and , possibly more to the point , the unsuccessful ventures undertaken from time to time by otherwise efficient units . |
| 26 | Still more to the point is another essay in that volume , ‘ Mr Eliot s Solid Merit ’ ( originally in the New English Weekly for 12 July 1934 ) . |
| 27 | Still more to the point , were they welcomed by the Melians when they took over the existing settlement at Phylakopi ? |
| 28 | Erm they began the union just before I left Bellany and of course it was cried down and erm they had meetings and the lot , and then all the miners were on strike at the time , and er my father and brother were both miners and er my brother was very friendly with Mr and Mr next door and er anyway er we decided to come out on strike for Bellany 's union and of course erm they , the , one , I think it was Mr said Joey he said er did you know we 're out on strike here and my brother said it seemed to be catching does n't it he did n't say he could n't say I worked there you see but erm it , it caused an upset but still up to a point the unions were good because we 're all badly underpaid for what we did , and the hours we worked they would n't tolerate it nowadays , but erm I forget er I joined the union and if you did n't you were a blackleg you know you , they wanted you to join the union from then I 've been in the union all , until I finished work but erm they , they got us our rises and er as I say the , the money was n't er very good and then the union did fight for the rises and they 'd got to pay it or lose all the er employees but erm I was , I was satisfied with without it , I 've been satisfied with my life you know I 've had , there 's been humorous there 's been sad but erm I 'm still able to get around and that 's the main thing . |
| 29 | He had the merit of going always straight to the point — what is best for Christianity in England ? and besides that the scruples of air marshals , or the wishes of the Dean of York , or the comfort of Bell , or the scholarship of Ramsey , are nothing . |
| 30 | In order to stop this movement , the top of the pendulum must now be moved sharply to the left to counteract it and then smartly back to a point directly above the helicopter at precisely the moment that the movement stops . |