Example sentences of "and [adv] to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Short , bitter sweet and brutally to the point . |
| 2 | Short , bitter sweet and brutally to the point . |
| 3 | Also , and much to the point , it was farmed by the same obliging farmer , Mr Healey . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And more to the point he did n't disappear on a massive binge , and he gave all that money to his sister . |
| 6 | According to X/Open , it is looking forward to re-negotiating membership terms with Novell — and more to the point membership fees . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Yeah , and more to the point , she 's looking for me . ’ |
| 9 | And more to the point , what am I going to do about it ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |