Example sentences of "to the point [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Kluge , 40 , has pursued the royal family relentlessly , to the point of buying a 75,000-acre estate next to Balmoral Castle . |
| 2 | That dialogue has lead me to the point of issuing a joint statement with Mr Addams . |
| 3 | They launched vigorously into Haydn 's tricky overture from the opera L'isola disabitata with generally good ensemble discipline and sound intonation , and did not allow tension to mar their enthusiasm , albeit to the point of overplaying a little at times . |
| 4 | Common action on issues at a local level seemed threatened , but at no time did the war seriously compromise the determination of labour leaders to defend living conditions ; in many instances the struggle was intensified , although not to the point of sabotaging the war effort . |
| 5 | And the only east European settlers from Germany who actually saw themselves , among other things , as cultural and linguistic Germans — to the point of organising the German schools teaching the standard German language — do not enjoy the ‘ right of return ’ except to Israel . |
| 6 | So Mains looked toward Southern , a senior club with which his family already had strong ties , and it was as a player for the famous club , with their black and white colours , that Mains developed to the point of gaining the Otago side in 1967 . |
| 7 | Control if exercised by making the individual user responsible , by name , for the materials issued , even to the point of making a personal issue against a signature . |
| 8 | Even so , if he had succeeded in this endeavour , to the point of winning the election , then the ensuing chaos in both the health and educational fields would have been fearful to behold , quite apart from the flight from sterling , and the loss of foreign investment . |
| 9 | They said of Dr Barnard that from fragments so minuscule as almost to deceive a magnifying glass he could reconstitute a bomb to the point of identifying the factory that made its components and the man who assembled it . |
| 10 | Jesus , too , confronted injustice and corruption , to the point of driving the money-changers and merchants out of the temple court . |
| 11 | Thus have governments and their interests pre-empted perception , even to the point of dragooning the commodities of the world 's markets into nationality — Japanese cars , Pakistani cricket bats , German steel . |
| 12 | Beverley and Liverpool reformers in 1824 went to the point of envisaging no substantial changes in the structure of West Indian agriculture with the arrival of emancipation . |
| 13 | I knew it was unlikely to be Mrs Nassim as she refused to get involved in his business activities even to the point of answering the phone . |
| 14 | So far as Hitler was concerned , and he was certainly the person who started the war , his objectives were , was to achieve a form of economic autarchy which involved the conquest of , of , of er territory in Europe er but which would not push his adversaries to the point of fighting a war of national existence . |
| 15 | He was persuaded to refine his ideas to the point of conceiving the Centre Mondial as a workable and fundable project . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | However , the escape from spontaneity has long been a philosophical ideal , at its most intransigent in Sartre 's Being and nothingness , which treats even emotion as a matter of choice , to the point of denying the distinction between genuine and willed feeling . |
| 18 | The arrangement , however , was successfully pressed by the friends of the Duke of Montrose , in order , hopefully , to heal the threat of division in the county , lest feelings of dislike be aroused to the point of threatening the stability of the Montrose interest in parliamentary politics . |