Example sentences of "[adv] to the 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ? " |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Short , bitter sweet and brutally to the point . |
| 10 | Short , bitter sweet and brutally to the point . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | However , if the local authority does not include the spillover benefits in its decision-making calculations , it will provide only to the point where |
| 17 | This idea of unequal benefit links crucially to the point that competition for influence over behaviour is itself very far from free and equal . |
| 18 | It tends to encourage any tendency to the suppression of initiative , and to foster cautious conservatism , perhaps to the point of atrophy . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He came swiftly to the point . |
| 21 | Not all his arguments were entirely to the point , but he produced a confident and humorous speech . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | For many indigenes this meant that their once dependable resources were whittled away to the point of non-sustainability . |
| 24 | It can be fascinating , but the allure of intellectualism can carry us away to the point of deliberately courting obscurity . |
| 25 | Sometimes , a judge will be particularly impressed by a mellifluous and seductive plea put up on behalf of an accused and will sentence leniently to the point of mistake . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | This in itself created a double problem because the action of this scene moves from a point where Nicholson is talking normally right through to the point where he is stoned and slurred through smoking marijuana . |
| 29 | What I 've done now is taken you through to the point where , we 're asking ourselves what is it that management make a mess of ? |
| 30 | The assertion that Derrida 's work incurs a form of relativism is thus exactly to the point , though its implications are rather different from those generally assumed in such a complaint . |