Example sentences of "to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | The virtue of artists ' writings for the reader of criticism is that it can often serve as a touchstone for judging the worth of mediators , particularly those presenting views of what the artist intended ; what the artist said may be more to the point . |
| 2 | He reverts to the point with the analyst : ‘ Supposing I did n't have what a child objectively should be entitled to … ’ . |
| 3 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 4 | From a perspective in anthropology where social systems were all equally valid , I teased her about cultural police rigidities which caused this rejection of the alternative views she was being asked to examine , to the point where she refused to lunch with me in the Students ' Union , because , ‘ you 're one of those bloody communists I have to listen to ’ . |
| 5 | If the scores are tied , then the referee panel will award the victory on the basis of their appraisal of both contestants ' performances up to the point where injury occurred . |
| 6 | It touched Lorca to the point that he reduced his poetry to a secondary status , concentrating on theatrical communication as a better means of getting his message over . |
| 7 | ‘ Frank , I 'll come to the point . |
| 8 | BS is like a man who knows all about swimming , even to the point of being able to train the Olympic team , but who can not swim himself , and V is the man with the normal talent for swimming . |
| 9 | The traditional railway goods depot , with its acres of sidings and its own cranage and cartage facilities , has declined almost to the point of extinction . |
| 10 | Happily the coal traffic was revived to the point where pre-strike tonnages were exceeded , although the number of individual collieries served was vastly reduced . |
| 11 | Raskolnikov has of course outraged the human being in himself too ; the pad pad pad of the hunter and hunted relationship with Porfiry is intertwined with self-pursuit to the point where the murderer actually makes the running in the second of the three long interviews , arriving unsent-for and demanding interrogation ‘ according to the rules ’ , if interrogation there must be ; which leads Porfiry to exclaim : ‘ Good heavens ! |
| 12 | This ascetic , strong-willed young man , dominating yet dull-toned in personality to the point of satanic flatness , captured as if in his own despite the imagination of the day . |
| 13 | It is less easy , but more interesting , to try to understand why ancient radical doubts about the ability or language to express a genuine extra-linguistic reality have been revived in recent decades to the point where they seem to have achieved an almost popular appeal . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They regard the article as being primarily an attack on the Prime Minister , and one which is improper almost to the point of being constitutional . |
| 18 | Such a proceeding is , of course , arbitrary to the point of being ridiculous . |
| 19 | By then ‘ Tixier ’ had taken his anti-Gaullist crusade to the point of running himself as a presidential candidate . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He is Joseph Zappala , a Florida property developer , who has never been to Spain and perhaps , more to the point , speaks no Spanish . |
| 22 | But more to the point , Shakespeare did n't envisage Agincourt being fully enacted in the first place . |
| 23 | He frets that , when it comes to the point , the requirements for SATs may not tally with the requirements for GCSE ; that he may have to regroup the whole school to align pupils according to their ability rather than their age . |
| 24 | More to the point , however , the public does not recognise this either . |
| 25 | From the point when the Government 's high interest rate policies start taking effect to the point when companies start calling in the receiver , there tends to be quite a delay — liquidity problems do not suddenly emerge unless something dramatically goes wrong . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Major industrial partners , like Shell , Hewlett-Packard , and Meiko itself have contributed both money and equipment to help the project to the point where it can offer a reliable multi-user service to people from all over the UK . |
| 28 | The performance revolves round rows of hissingly-hot pressure cookers , which are brought to the point of pressure ; suspended above them are boxes of ice , with nails and bits and pieces , which drop on to the pressure cooker lids as the ice melts . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Mrs Kluge , 40 , has pursued the royal family relentlessly , to the point of buying a 75,000-acre estate next to Balmoral Castle . |