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 | Short , bitter sweet and brutally to the point . |
| 6 | Short , bitter sweet and brutally to the point . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | However , if the local authority does not include the spillover benefits in its decision-making calculations , it will provide only to the point where |
| 11 | This idea of unequal benefit links crucially to the point that competition for influence over behaviour is itself very far from free and equal . |
| 12 | It tends to encourage any tendency to the suppression of initiative , and to foster cautious conservatism , perhaps to the point of atrophy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He came swiftly to the point . |
| 15 | Not all his arguments were entirely to the point , but he produced a confident and humorous speech . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For many indigenes this meant that their once dependable resources were whittled away to the point of non-sustainability . |
| 18 | It can be fascinating , but the allure of intellectualism can carry us away to the point of deliberately courting obscurity . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | However , if the rent-seeking coalitions are extensive , this may well reduce wages elsewhere to the point where reservation wages are not met and unemployment and/or underemployment is commonplace . |
| 24 | Controlling production by massive ‘ bribes ’ in the form of aid to Third World drug-producing countries in exchange for specific measurable target reductions in production and controls on local drug merchants requires major intergovernmental agreements and even so will not prevent the illicit manufacture close to the point of consumption of man-made ‘ designer drugs ’ . |
| 25 | None of the supply routes go close to the point where Sunderby 's aircraft ditched . |
| 26 | At this juncture , I realized that I had driven close to the point where the boat had landed me the previous evening . |
| 27 | For that reason , straw as a fuel is likely to be most efficient and economical when used in heating close to the point of production . |
| 28 | The Oryx consortium will drill off Crosby while Marathon Oil and Chevron consortia will drill respective fields close to the Point of Ayr off the North Wales coast . |
| 29 | The Exchequer was now demanding payment of the fines , and the duke was informed that the Earl of Mar , as Secretary of State , had secured a remission of the fine for one of his friends ; Montrose 's dependent , getting quickly to the point , inquired whether ‘ your Gr[ace] can without truble tip a wink to any of the Barrounes [ of Exchequer ] for Wattie and me ’ . |
| 30 | He came quickly to the point . |