Example sentences of "[adv] to [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or , as much to the point but slightly differently , I want to be a father . |
| 2 | Also , and much to the point , it was farmed by the same obliging farmer , Mr Healey . |
| 3 | Rowntree 's general comment on all this is much to the point : " The hidden curriculum marches on . |
| 4 | Controllable : Random distribution especially to the point of use invites other problems . |
| 5 | Somehow , in a little over 100 years , science has let its hard-won reputation be whored down to a point where its priests might as well be selling chocolate or cars . |
| 6 | This stretches from just below the wing fringe down to a point level with the centreline of the single chevron ; the joins are so finely stitched as to be almost invisible . |
| 7 | In the past three decades we might say that , in Scott Fitzgerald 's words , ‘ life was being refined down to a point ’ , in this case the point of increasing material consumption ; or , to put the matter in more political terms , that the industrialized societies , both capitalist and socialist , were developing the kind of narrow and obsessive orientation which Tawney ( 1921 , pp. 106–7 ) criticized when he wrote that : |
| 8 | More and more after these scenes he felt worn out , drained — as if his life were being slowly refined down to a point . |
| 9 | We er went as far as we could without er erm finding that we would have to delete allocations that we were making or produce unrealistic er development sites erm the the figure of er twenty five hectares simply means that we 're ratcheting the the whole thing down to a point at which it ca n't be sustained . |
| 10 | Clear the soil down to the point of origin , take a firm hold and wrench the growth away — never cut , no matter how resistant it is . |
| 11 | Satisfied that it would bring them exactly down to the point he wanted on the starboard side of Lord Jim , he asked — " How do you feel about your husband ? " |
| 12 | from right next to the needle down to the point and just go round it and then you weave it in and out like basket stitching and out over the cotton and under the cotton |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Short , bitter sweet and brutally to the point . |
| 15 | Short , bitter sweet and brutally to the point . |
| 16 | The Lucas supply function predicts that the economy will move along to a point such as point B at which both prices and output are higher than at A : prices rise to and output rises to y t . |
| 17 | Titch steered close in to the point and Wycliffe could see the broad path of the Wheel and the mound of turves by which it had been shot into the air before its final plunge into the sea . |
| 18 | Once again it brings me in to the point where er double glazers have to go and measure up then do their , I know they 've got lovely lap tops I 've seen them now with their lap top comp their little samples there special catches here . |
| 19 | As the economic crisis has got worse , the attention the government has given to education has got less to the point where instead of opening schools they are closing some of them , because — so they say — they ca n't pay the teachers ' salaries . |
| 20 | Whether or not genitalia were seen , either in long shot or close-up , was far less to the point than whether the sexual behaviour displayed was criminal in itself and yet presented solely for the purposes of sexual arousal . |
| 21 | To that extent it might in principle have been acceptable to the Vietminh government : but probably only to the point where , in practice , it was powerless to circumscribe the sovereignty of the Democratic Republic . |
| 22 | However , if the local authority does not include the spillover benefits in its decision-making calculations , it will provide only to the point where |
| 23 | This idea of unequal benefit links crucially to the point that competition for influence over behaviour is itself very far from free and equal . |
| 24 | It tends to encourage any tendency to the suppression of initiative , and to foster cautious conservatism , perhaps to the point of atrophy . |
| 25 | However , in Turner 's songs , it 's all woven seamlessly together to the point where even an ESDA test could n't reveal the joins . |
| 26 | He came swiftly to the point . |
| 27 | Not all his arguments were entirely to the point , but he produced a confident and humorous speech . ’ |
| 28 | Six of our residents took part in a driving exercise and we demonstrated that clearly and this is for your benefit we 'll give it to you , although it 's three miles longer to the point where the A sixty one joins the A one , even with the present state of the A one , it is ten minutes quicker to go via the A six five eight , A fifty nine , A one route . |
| 29 | The manual alerts the teacher to the kinds of ‘ errors ’ children are most likely to make and emphasises that in the ‘ correct ’ drawing ‘ the front of the road occupies the whole width of the picture , and the distant end of it vanishes away to a point far back on the horizon ’ . |
| 30 | His lean , muscular body was tanned , presumably from his years in Australia , and while the hair on his legs had turned to gold the triangle of hair on his chest was dark and tapered away to a point at the base of his flat stomach , disappearing beneath the band of his black swimming-trunks . |