Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to the point of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less than cheery playwright Mike Leigh 's vicious attack on the nouveau riche starred his wife Alison Steadman ( for a change — not ! ) as dinner-hostess Beverley , wound up to the point of implosion with niceties , niggles and appearances . |
| 2 | For many indigenes this meant that their once dependable resources were whittled away to the point of non-sustainability . |
| 3 | Subsequently he changed his mind , possibly in relation to pressure from outside , possibly in an attempt to make psychoanalysis more acceptable , possibly because he could n't come to terms with the fact himself and he then came round to the point of view that these were fantasised seductions as he called them . |
| 4 | We got votes against our proposals with no reasons given at all , you 've now got down to the point of having no reasons at all for opposing what we want to do . |
| 5 | When in breeding dress the male 's colour darkens almost to the point of the blue bands disappearing . |
| 6 | The power invested in Spenser 's literary representations helped establish patterns which became culturally entrenched even to the point of resisting changing historical categories . |
| 7 | Like many others , I am saddened almost to the point of despair at the result of this general election , and am vividly reminded of the moving words once spoken by that truly good man , Michael Foot . |
| 8 | The support given to Vera Coppard and her family by the Quakers came at a point when the Jewish organisations in Berlin and Vienna were reduced almost to the point of impotence . |
| 9 | He always saw straight to the point of an argument . |
| 10 | The parent becomes more dependent , and with only small increases in the time and amount of care involved , there is suddenly a multiplicity of tasks until one has progressed unawares to the point of full-time caring . ’ |
| 11 | In preparing for his reconnaissance of Rhodes , the Commander had set himself an exacting routine of training , with long-distance swimming and other exercises hardening his physical endurance : habits of training his men would later find exhausting almost to the point of mutiny . |
| 12 | That it is sustained almost to the point of embarrassment is exactly what is so good about it , since discomfort is the name of this film 's particular game . |
| 13 | The Seventh , however , is reined back to the point of stodginess , at least until the white-hot finale and even there one of the trumpets forgets himself in the last three bars . |
| 14 | Meanwhile the situation between the government , the union and the Shipowners ' Federation had proceeded almost to the point of agreement in principle on a National Maritime Board and a proposal from Havelock Wilson that a single source of supply of seamen should be under the joint control of the Federation and the union , though formal acceptance and drafting problems remained ; so did the Liverpool revolt . |
| 15 | Second condition was , the willingness to redeem even to the point of sacrifice . |
| 16 | Then the willingness to redeem even to the point of sacrifice . |
| 17 | Many of the animals in this exhibition were gathered by hunters from a different era ; one which saw the decline of rarer species shot almost to the point of extinction . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Gas from the fields in Liverpool Bay will be piped ashore to the Point of Ayr terminal , then overland to the proposed PowerGen gas-fired power station at Connah 's Quay . |
| 20 | Gas from the fields in Liverpool Bay will be piped ashore to the Point of Ayr terminal , then overland to the proposed PowerGen gas fired power station at Connah 's Quay . |
| 21 | But it comes back to the point of how much tempo passes in the one phrase . |
| 22 | She climbed up again , stretching almost to the point of falling . |
| 23 | However , in this latter nexus , the relation between the real wage rate and the level of aggregate demand — a relation which was accorded great prominence in the General Theory — was to become obscured almost to the point of invisibility . |
| 24 | Now , we are far busier people , busy almost to the point of hysteria . |