Example sentences of "[noun pl] to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was accepted by the Highways and Planning departments that it was outside the scope of the methodology to progress the technical solutions to the point of implementation , which , in any event , could not have been undertaken by the FAOR team due to their disbandment after the final report had been rendered to the European Commission . |
| 2 | Police refused to intervene as protesters attempted to drive their cars to the point on the Atlantic coast where conservationists yearly attempt to count the birds before the hunters move in for the kill . |
| 3 | There is an overload of sounds , of images , of words to the point at which a number of these cultural goods can not be found meanings that can be attached to them ( Ratcliff 1985 ) . |
| 4 | Attention is drawn along both lines to the point of juncture with sufficient energy for the eye to jump an interval to a target . |
| 5 | This has enabled us to progress from cave dwellers to the point where we can ask about the ultimate theory of the universe . |
| 6 | We are talking about a spectacular slide in support for Conservatism in Scotland , which has taken the Tories from the high point of being the majority party in Scotland in the mid-1950s to the point today when they are on the edge of extinction as a serious and significant force in Scotland . |
| 7 | The monkey gingerly ran its fingers along wires to the point where the electrodes had been inserted in its brain . |
| 8 | The least active response is what Philip Jackson ( 1968 , p. 27 ) describes as ‘ devaluing the evaluations to the point where they no longer matter very much ’ . |
| 9 | Packaging , transport and temperature controls have resulted in the growth of industries which are connected with handling and storage , but still those last few feet to the point of consumption remain critical . |
| 10 | We have stupidly cluttered our lives to the point of frenzy , cramming our culture down our own throats until we choke on it . |
| 11 | It is less easy , but more interesting , to try to understand why ancient radical doubts about the ability or language to express a genuine extra-linguistic reality have been revived in recent decades to the point where they seem to have achieved an almost popular appeal . |
| 12 | The self-centred and materialistic climate of the decade corrodes ideals and concerns about social justice , narrowing perspectives to the point where conversations comprise little more than house prices or retiling the bathroom . |
| 13 | Our chief difficulties are the unfamiliarity ( to those rooted in print-based technologies ) , lack of availability and cost of current media to take these possibilities to the point of sellable products . |
| 14 | After all , a fox being pursued to ground by a pack of baying dogs to the point of sheer exhaustion and possibly ravaged to pieces in their final kill has little option of a prior engagement . |
| 15 | He was persuaded to refine his ideas to the point of conceiving the Centre Mondial as a workable and fundable project . |
| 16 | The one where you end up buying , out of guilt , an electric toothbrush costing £89 which tickles your gums to the point where you giggle helplessly in your bathroom , alone , and the family get over-concerned and leave jars of Passiflora in obvious places . |
| 17 | Most significantly , attitudes to animal welfare and conservation have changed radically in the last forty years to the point that they are among the most important six issues for the future and will dominate debate . |
| 18 | The level of owner occupation in Britain has increased rapidly during the last 30 years to the point where nearly two out of every three households either own or are buying their own home . |
| 19 | But , even with all this sophisticated support , the final few years to the point of consumption continue to defy mechanisation . |
| 20 | Those respondents calling for a drastic limitation of the professions ' liability and/or the abolition of the Compensation Fund altogether , often voiced the angry conviction that the transition from profession to trade — with the accompanying loss of status for the services of solicitors which that implied — had accelerated in recent years to the point at which the profession could no longer be called upon to pay for the dubious moral privilege of an ‘ anachronistic ’ system of compensation . |
| 21 | Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan has launched an appeal for a centre to rescue orphaned and injured Mediterranean monk seals , whose numbers have collapsed in recent years to the point where they are , according to the Prince , " one of the most forgotten creatures on earth " . |
| 22 | It is therefore slightly ironic that it should have been this same Meistersinger which now finally stirred his feelings to the point where any " healthy " critical stance became impossible . |
| 23 | One of these dairy cows develops severe leg problems to the point where it can not walk . |
| 24 | On the other hand they are criticised for making so much money in a world that pampers them , and for covering themselves in sponsors ' deals to the point that the locker-room at the Players ' Championship sometimes seems like Gasoline Alley at the Indy 500 . |
| 25 | However , I would say that any branch of art — be it music , painting , sculpture , literature , drama , or poetry — which abandons formal principles to the point of formlessness is doomed to failure : form allows a sense of completeness in a work of art , one that can be grasped by us and held in our memories . |
| 26 | Whether it would have been possible against this background of practically continuous fighting in the south , more than a year before the first Vietnam war between France and the Vietminh is usually reckoned to have begun , for either side to have modified its objectives to the point where compromise could have been reached is obviously a question which is relevant to the origins of the Vietnam war and one must therefore look for the characteristics which , at least after the event , suggest a remarkably high risk of collision . |
| 27 | What if the official welcomer had stuck to his preconceptions to the point of concluding that I had not arrived ? |
| 28 | So you can work out in advance the question there is , and try and condense down , prepare your answers mentally , prepare for those question areas , and condense down your arguments to the point where you can put them across succinctly . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | But events elsewhere were passing them by , and by 1958 customary caution and reluctance had led the Nordic states to the point where any move would be a reaction to external developments , a point wryly made later by Per Haekkerup , the premier of Denmark : ‘ No stone was left unturned , no question unanswered . |