Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , once the Crown has been depersonalized to the point where it is synonymous with ‘ the government ’ , it is unnecessary and undesirable that coercive remedies designed to control government activity should not be available against the Crown which is the government , and that ultimately the only sanction for government compliance with the law should be political . |
| 2 | Councils believe they have been squeezed to the point where services will suffer and jobs are threatened , and that the Scottish Secretary has now virtually taken control of local government expenditure . |
| 3 | Yet because the philosopher 's adult has traditionally been male , his children boy children , and his educational programmes designed to facilitate the transition between them , the ideal of the fully human person has been masculinised to the point where otherwise thoughtful and sometimes good and wise men have unashamedly admitted that this defining ideal is not applicable to half the species . |
| 4 | It is important to make it clear that , within the existing regime , if a safety representative has been victimised to the point of being unable to carry out his functions as a safety representative , the installation operator and owner would be in breach of the Offshore Installations ( Safety Representatives and Safety Committees ) |
| 5 | There was talk before the start of the competition having become more intense ; of the gap between McLaren and the rest having been reduced to the point where we might have a race on our hands . |
| 6 | In these uses , one gets the impression that let has been dematerialized to the point of almost being a mere " actualizer " of the infinitive event ( cf. |
| 7 | Here there may arise a conflict between two principles , one that the court will not imply a term unless it is one which reasonable men would obviously have agreed to if their minds had been directed to the point , the other that a contract should if possible be interpreted in such a way as to achieve fairness between the parties … mistake is a much more difficult problem … [ than fraud or partiality ] . |
| 8 | Everything looked so propitious it took a few minutes nibbling to realise that the lamb had been cooked to the point of anonymity and the prawns , although big and fat , were so bland they tasted more like good bread rolls than fish . |
| 9 | This has been destroyed to the point where only isolated pockets remain . |
| 10 | The sudden influx of sugar also caused some temporary problems : ‘ Russian storage facilities for Cuba 's raw sugar appear to have been strained to the point that some sugar spoiled . |
| 11 | Obviously children who have been neglected to the point that they are the subject of care proceedings are likely to be difficult and sometimes very disturbed . |
| 12 | TO golfers , whose appetite for party political broadcasts have been dulled to the point of anorexia , a light is breaking in the western sky . |
| 13 | Ferreting has been perfected to the point where it does a thorough job . |
| 14 | In recent years they have been streamlined to the point where they are totally identical , except for the name and the cover . |