Example sentences of "[verb] to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are therefore the inheritors of this tradition whereby expertise , being concentrated , has accrued to the point now where technology allied with pedagogy can provide quite powerfully for children in need , in whatever their setting . |
| 2 | He decided to come to the point . |
| 3 | Three weeks later at a meeting I knew I had to come to the point where I said yes or no to Jesus . |
| 4 | Vaguely he wondered when Siban was going to come to the point . |
| 5 | I wish to come to the point that the right hon. Gentleman raised specifically about my role in this matter . |
| 6 | Robert decided to come to the point . |
| 7 | To come to the point , what shall we do for the rest of the week ? |
| 8 | You must make sure that you are occupied to the point where you do not feel bored . |
| 9 | While Nina has the same protean tendencies as Julia , they are exaggerated to the point where they become dangerous . |
| 10 | In the still lifes , which have the same general characteristics as the landscapes , the Cézannian device of tipping certain objects up on to the picture plane is exaggerated to the point that one realizes at once that the artist is no longer making use of scientific perspective . |
| 11 | Usually such classes only run once a year , which may leave someone who has come to the point of decision too late for that year 's class in limbo for several months . |
| 12 | He had just said , ‘ I have come to the point where I do not think of colour . |
| 13 | I 've always been fascinated by bag ladies who choose to live on the street- I 've come to the point in my life where I can understand what makes them drop out . |
| 14 | I have to confess , I 'm afraid — and now we have come to the point of this long and circumstantial detour , of a sort which I assure you will not recur in these reports — that under the pressure of the circumstances I did a very foolish thing . |
| 15 | These would inevitably introduce distortion , noise and hiss and the signal would gradually become degraded to the point where it became unintelligible . |
| 16 | Councils believe they have been squeezed to the point where services will suffer and jobs are threatened , and that the Scottish Secretary has now virtually taken control of local government expenditure . |
| 17 | Brevity and truth often pull in opposite directions , and the short answer is often simplified to the point of distortion . |
| 18 | Jane believes that her mother was often stressed to the point of despair at this time , ‘ … that she suffered all the torments and tribulations of every working mother without anything in her background , education or make-up having prepared her for such an emotional wrenching . ’ |
| 19 | It is exactly the equality before the law , which Ms Pith-Helmet invests with so much trust , that has betrayed blacks and Asians in the courts , in their treatment at the hands of vicious and prejudiced police ( that has resulted in the death of 10 blacks at the hands of police during the course of arrest and interrogation in the last 15 years ) , that allows black and Asian homes to be terrorised by racist thugs who can sprinkle liberally their British hospitality in the form of firebombs , beatings , excrement dumped on doors , and children bullied to the point of suicide and madness . |
| 20 | Returning to the point made by my hon. Friend the Member for Normanton , those of us who have constituencies north of London are anxious to ensure that when the channel tunnel opens in 1993 — that is the only certainty in the project — at least some attempt has been made to provide the essential services without which areas north of London will receive no benefit from this enormous project . |
| 21 | But there is only injustice when preventable suffering is allowed to persist to the point where a person would rather be dead . |
| 22 | From then on , she trips and twirls like a prima donna at an infant ballet class , gurgles and squeaks to the point of practically begging to be mercy killed , and generally flaunts a dodgy child sexuality that is neither funny nor subversive , but is stupid and dangerous . |
| 23 | While you , great George , for knowledge hunt , And sharp conductor change for blunt The nation 's out of joint : Franklin a wiser course pursues And all your thunder useless views , By keeping to the point . |
| 24 | ‘ Then we will go to Mrs Gracie 's ? ’ said Dinah , keeping to the point . |
| 25 | As a result he was reprimanded by Henry Ireton [ q.v. ] for airing his views unnecessarily and not keeping to the point . |
| 26 | Blood sugar levels and nutritional requirements do fluctuate , and so it is particularly important to be aware of what is occurring and to be educated to the point where you know how to treat your body at any given time of the month . |
| 27 | In the case which we have just been discussing , that of the common , oppressed people , it is a question of the superego being degraded by alcoholic intoxication to the point where it and the ego can merge ( or , at least where it no longer chastizes the ego ) ; but in the case of the Inca himself we saw that it was a case of a pre-eminent individual whose ego was exalted to the point where it became the ideal ego of the entire civilization . |
| 28 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that the expression ‘ is suffering … significant harm ’ in section 31(2) ( a ) of the Children Act 1989 referred to the point in time immediately before the process of protecting the child began , so that , in determining whether the first threshold condition of section 31(2) was satisfied , the court had to consider the position before the commencement of the voluntary care when the children were with the mother ; that the condition in section 31(2) ( b ) related to care by the parent or carer whose lack of care had caused the significant harm to the child and not to the care which might be given by other carers if no care order were to be made , which only became relevant once the threshold conditions under section 31(2) had been satisfied in deciding whether or not a care order should be made ; and that it could not be said that the family proceedings court had been wrong in concluding , first , that the threshold conditions were satisfied and , secondly , on the evidence , that a care order to the local authority was the appropriate order ( post , pp. 1013H — 1014A , E–F , H — 1015B ) . |
| 29 | Textiles were in full decline ; the old metal trades had vanished to the point where no artisan could explain the traditional techniques . |
| 30 | No real difference from alienation , then ; and given that the outcome whether of alienation or estrangement is to be the class war carried to the point of revolution and expropriation , perhaps the simple understanding is good enough . |