Example sentences of "[vb base] to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its purpose was to prepare for the coming struggle between good order under a monarchy , and the revolutionary socialism of the sort to which republics often sink-until , that is , conditions deteriorate to the point where people are ready to revolt against the system and return to the rule of an even more powerful dictator . |
| 2 | Overall assessment : Terminally twittish to the point of tragedy . |
| 3 | A potential result of such strong attitudes against credit is that when financial pressures mount to the point where they override a reluctance to borrow , the reluctant borrower may want to borrow covertly — that is , borrow from an informal-seeming local lender rather than from a recognised lending institution such as a bank . |
| 4 | Get to the point , tell people what they need to know and do it with as much style , clarity and substance as possible . |
| 5 | ‘ Get to the point ca n't you . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Get to the point ! ’ |
| 7 | Get to the point simply and directly . |
| 8 | ‘ They were about the same ’ , she writes , ‘ as the principles used in painting — get to the point as directly as you can ; never use a big word if a little one will do ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Get to the point , will you ! ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Then , get to the point . ’ |
| 11 | The lower they go , the closer they get to the point where even a small amount of cheating could upset the balance alarmingly . |
| 12 | You just get to the point where you are sick and tired of the life that you are living . |
| 13 | ‘ But there must be a point … when you 've hosed off all the muck and the glaze and the bits of overpainting and your musks of Araby have done their work and you get to the point when you know that what you see before you is what the chap would have seen before him when he stopped painting all those centuries ago . |
| 14 | And whether it 's electronics or physics or maths or anything else , erm when you get to the point where you 're dividing by zero , you have to say well now we leave the , the mathematical model , and we just go back to the common sense model . |
| 15 | But they do loads of that way way down in preparing all these things , and loads and loads of different views expressed at different times , I deal with actually the recommendations er as we get to the point of decision , but on the on the investment point |
| 16 | Let's call it just economic you get to the point of going on before you . |
| 17 | You , you , you build this up , now , and then you get to the point where you 're going to say to yourself , well , do we have to do anything about it ? |
| 18 | Yeah , so yeah ah you 're alright so you 'll say yeah course I 'm alright , there 's no fee , so eventually I get to the point where I said look I did say there 's no fee involved but I 'd , I , that 's a bit of a lie because there is a fee for all the work I 'm er but it comes in the form of referrals , in the form of recommendation , not actual money . |
| 19 | Walking means exercise , walking means effort , you and I have to do something to keep ourselves spiritually awake , going back to our illustration again about the car driver on the motorway , you find yourself after so many miles just dozing off because the road is so straight , not much traffic around , not much to think about apart from the countryside that goes by and you 're there foot on the accelerator , no braking , no gear changing , nothing at all and you get to the point where you 're driving one-handed by the thing , that 's the time when you get so relaxed is n't it ? |
| 20 | If you hear of anybody that wants a any , well a as I say I get to the point where I 've got to need the work somebody , you know ? |
| 21 | I know she wo n't board but I tell you , I tell you the main advantages of boarding is that a lot of times if you , you know when sometimes you get to the point where you 've done so much prep and you 've got lots more and you really you feel like you ca n't cope |
| 22 | and that was really a generic way , but then we refer to the point of claims of course based upon the bi-laws |
| 23 | Heart experts never tire of pointing out that Winston Churchill started life as a frail premature baby , went on to smoke , drink heavily and eat to the point of obesity , but lived to a great age , whereas Nathan Pritikin , inventor of the Pritikin diet , died a premature death despite being obsessed with health . |
| 24 | Come straight to the point and keep to the point are the golden rules of letter writing . |
| 25 | Keep to the point . |
| 26 | It would have been physically and economically impossible for the whole of Africa , for example , to twist and turn its way out of the straitjacket that colonialism imposed upon its economies and industrialize to the point where it could compete effectively on the world market in the space of 10 years . |
| 27 | If we return to the point where this chapter began , it is surely evident that nothing approaching the executive hegemony found in the United Kingdom exists in the United States . |
| 28 | But I return to the point I make here , Mr , we 're not saying that these sites should be allocated for development now , unless the Inspector . |
| 29 | Before such people can act together , a kind of telepathic feeling has to flow through them and ripen to the point when they all know that they are ready to begin . |
| 30 | Not until after the last Ice Age had remodelled the valleys north of the plain , overdeepening them , then damming them with morainic debris to form the great lakes of Maggiore , Como and Garda , did man evolve to the point where he left a permanent imprint on the landscape . |