Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandhurst , which has performed dreadfully under Tootal 's control , made a £2m loss up to the point when WH Smith was persuaded to buy it , and three out of the four ongoing Tootal businesses showed disappointing results . |
| 2 | Sometimes , a judge will be particularly impressed by a mellifluous and seductive plea put up on behalf of an accused and will sentence leniently to the point of mistake . |
| 3 | Controlling production by massive ‘ bribes ’ in the form of aid to Third World drug-producing countries in exchange for specific measurable target reductions in production and controls on local drug merchants requires major intergovernmental agreements and even so will not prevent the illicit manufacture close to the point of consumption of man-made ‘ designer drugs ’ . |
| 4 | Investment should increase capacity up to the point at which the once-and-for-all cost of a new plant equals the present value of operating profits when the efficient pricing structure is in operation . |
| 5 | The Rev E P Tompson was the first Chairman of its Executive Committee and in that capacity led the work forward to the point at which it was accepted as the youth club arm of Scripture Union , and a member of the SU Council assumed the chair . |
| 6 | Half an hour after the intruders had gone , a horde of volunteers arrived — since ‘ the Forty-five ’ Scotland had had no militia — and a cannon , dragged from the town on to the Point of St Mary 's Isle , fiercely engaged a supposed ship which turned out to be a rock . |
| 7 | Controllable : Random distribution especially to the point of use invites other problems . |
| 8 | On the other hand , it can also be allowed to run its course , carrying the support up to the point of actualization of the infinitive 's event , which produces the " subsequent actualization " sense ( He managed to get free ) . |
| 9 | Manage thus expresses notionally the movement of approach signified by to from a position before the event up to the point where its realization begins . |
| 10 | Competitive equilibrium would ensure that each industry expanded its output up to the point at which price equals marginal cost and therefore social marginal benefit equals social marginal cost . |
| 11 | But they are prepared to act on the political stage according to a script which permits pragmatic compromise up to the point where further compromise would endanger the fundamental evangelical principles of the background . |
| 12 | This commences with a quarter loop ( back cyclic , positive pitch ) followed by a vertical climb ( neutral cyclic , zero pitch ) , a half roll ( full lateral cyclic ) , a further vertical climb ( if you are lucky ) , a stall turn ( full rudder ) , a vertical dive back to the point where you started the climb ( still zero pitch ) and another quarter loop ( back cyclic , positive pitch ) to recover . |
| 13 | For the people of Pakistan , Maulana Abdul Sattar Edhi commands respect almost to the point of worship . |
| 14 | By diminishing the outward evidence of his authority almost to the point of invisibility , he demonstrated to the people and perhaps more importantly to himself that he could perform his duties not only without resort to force but without any discernible support at all : like Hugh Clifford 's Sir Philip Hanbury-Erskine choosing to deal with rebellion not as a governor but as ‘ a man ’ , he was effacing not himself but his institutional context . |
| 15 | In contrast the development of local management schemes purportedly seeks to enhance local and community control of schools by bringing financial control closer to the point of professional and institutional decision-making . |
| 16 | Clear the soil down to the point of origin , take a firm hold and wrench the growth away — never cut , no matter how resistant it is . |
| 17 | The Sinking Fund can be considered a success up to the point when the outbreak of the " Great War " of 1793 removed any likelihood of a revenue surplus . |
| 18 | The solution arrived at was to compensate only ‘ for loss of development value which accrued in the past up to the point where the 1947 axe fell — but not for loss of development value accruing in the future ’ . |
| 19 | Apart from the obvious water-carrying pipes , be sure to lag the expansion pipe up to the point it bends into the cold water storage tank . |
| 20 | To overcome this difficulty , the estimated cumulative proportion of ulcers relapsing on each treatment was calculated using life tables and the log rank test as described by Peto et al because this method uses the actual duration of the ulcer free period for each patient and allows any censored data to be incorporated into the calculation up to the point at which the patient drops out of the trial . |
| 21 | from right next to the needle down to the point and just go round it and then you weave it in and out like basket stitching and out over the cotton and under the cotton |
| 22 | For that reason , straw as a fuel is likely to be most efficient and economical when used in heating close to the point of production . |
| 23 | The planning officer is an employee of the council who handles the application up to the point when it is put to the planning committee , made up of elected councillors , for a decision . |
| 24 | This allowed us to explore the process of secondment more generally , from first approach to application up to the point of departure some six to 23 months later . |
| 25 | Data from the patients who withdrew were included in the analysis up to the point of withdrawal . |
| 26 | A bout of sickness and diarrhoea exacerbated the problem intensely to the point of Darren refusing to eat at all and becoming extremely weak and debilitated . |
| 27 | The problem , in terms of the present discussion , is to explain how the evolution of the id and the ego up to the point at which hunting began could have resulted in its success and could have brought about the adaptive advance represented by self-reproducing hunting bands . |
| 28 | In a diagram : Verbs such as try evoke a movement towards the beginning of the infinitive event but do not reach it , whereas verbs like manage take one all the way up to the point of actual realization . |
| 29 | It follows that the defendant will be entitled to the interest it has earned on deposit up to the point of acceptance . |
| 30 | Turning the clock back to the point immediately before computers got involved in the publishing business there were only two real technologies at work ; hot metal and cold metal . |