Example sentences of "[noun sg] to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | His nervous tension , allied to the freezing cold , combined to fill his bladder to the point where it became decidedly uncomfortable . |
| 2 | The standard deviation can usefully be visualized as the distance from the mean to the point of inflection of the bell-shaped curve . |
| 3 | The standard deviation can usefully be visualized as the distance from the mean to the point of inflection of the bell-shaped curve . |
| 4 | Women are disrupted in their worship by the masculinity of the religion to the point that it ceases to be for them a vehicle through which they can love God . |
| 5 | Technology enforces rigorous thinking to the point of revealing embarrassing gaps in learning , teaching and training theory . |
| 6 | They expand the consciousness to the point of bursting , but feel no obligation to raise the consciousness , elevate it to lofty concerns . |
| 7 | The second is that from the Cherwell boathouse to the point where the tragedy occurred is a distance of over two and a half miles , including a strenuous portage , and took us nearly an hour . |
| 8 | Both the Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror said that we might take our opposition to the point of resignation . |
| 9 | None of them pushed their opposition to the point of resignation , although there was a good deal of muttering and discussion . |
| 10 | Presumably he believed that though his wife might join in a little family intrigue against him , she would not want to carry her opposition to the point of war — particularly if that were to involve her in an alliance with her ex-husband . |
| 11 | Paradoxically it is the pressure created by the enormous guilt , and by the doomed attempt to deal with it , that builds tension to the point where it is more likely to explode into real physical abuse . |
| 12 | He then climbed down again , and followed the coaxial cables across the roof to the point where they went over the rear wall of the building and in through one of the bedroom windows of the apartment next to his . |
| 13 | Eventually uplift may be sufficient to stretch the brittle overlying crust to the point where it fractures and a rift valley forms ( Fig. 4.5(C) ) . |
| 14 | It 's a domestic policy , hands off right and this was one of the arguments one of those potent arguments that they 've used in the last forty years right but it 's incredibly naive because any domestic policy will have an international dimension I remember the about European Community right but it was n't for the operation of the common agricultural policy countries in the European Community would be net importers of agricultural goods as we were ten years ago bec because er of protectionism we 've now increased our self sufficiency to the point where were a net exporter of agricultural goods what implications has th does that have for international trade ? |
| 15 | Story-tellers have revitalised the tradition of verbal gossip to the point where a juicy item that happened late one night in Annabel 's for instance , can have been chattered right around the world in a matter of 24 hours without it ever going into the newspapers . |
| 16 | You may be less complacent when I tell you that the friction of pulling just one wet and grit-encrusted rope through an abseil anchor can be enough to weaken thin tape to the point of sudden fracture when the next load is applied . |
| 17 | From the point when the Government 's high interest rate policies start taking effect to the point when companies start calling in the receiver , there tends to be quite a delay — liquidity problems do not suddenly emerge unless something dramatically goes wrong . |
| 18 | But a small extra quantity of water could enhance the greenhouse effect to the point where present conditions would result . |
| 19 | Do two passes of the carriage to read the cams and then , when the carriage is at the opposite side to the point cam ( in this case on the right ) , move the left point cam back to its position on the right of the N1 cam . |
| 20 | And as the individual thinks , so , in more general terms , does the larger community : the decline of Britain 's automobile industry to the point where imports exceeded exports became the measure of the country 's fall from a place in the industrial front rank . |
| 21 | For much of the period overmanning was absorbed at the cost of lower absolute levels of productivity ( despite the quite good record in terms of productivity growth ) , and the full extent of the burden was not revealed until the late 1970s as international competition drove sectors of British industry to the point of collapse [ Prais , 1981 ] . |
| 22 | If you think I will respect her honour to the point of releasing her , you much mistake the matter ! ’ |
| 23 | Incompatible therefore though a Co-operative sector would be with the Webbs ' version of the fully Socialist economy , the incompatibility has not so far become obtrusive in the United Kingdom because Labour Governments , which incidentally have had the support of the Co-operative Party as the political arm of the Co-operative Consumer Movement , have carried western Socialist Empiricism to the point of settling for the mixed economy ; and any central planning has been indicative — and , some would say , ineffectual — rather than mandatory . |
| 24 | She was fighting her battles elsewhere , hauling herself out of the rut of common humanity to the point when she would be ready to accept the training the medicine man of the line of Armijah was destined to give her . |
| 25 | Secondly , if the polytechnic in question had deteriorated in resource provision and management to the point suggested , this pointed to the lack of an early warning system through the Inspectorate , who had a responsibility for the monitoring of standards in non-university institutions . |
| 26 | If it was known that a Girl simply had a relation with the disease , she would find herself singled out for extra help to the point of favouritism . |
| 27 | A common box-compass , she had further been advised , would afford pleasure by directing the Mussulman to the point of his prayers ; but Miss Fergusson was disinclined to assist the heathen in his false adorations . |
| 28 | It consisted of just two words : " folle indépendance " which can fairly be translated as : " independence to the point of lunacy " . |
| 29 | For transfection , 100μg plasmid DNA was mixed with 25μg Lipofectin in a total volume of 50μl and administered to mice by tracheal instillation in two loads by insertion of a metal applicator , adapted from a 25-gauge blunted syringe needle , through the mouth and into the trachea to the point where the main bronchi branch off . |
| 30 | Each mobile electron in the system is represented by a point in k space such that the vector from the origin to the point is proportional to the electron 's momentum , and so represents both the magnitude and direction of the momentum . |