Example sentences of "be [verb] 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 | While Nina has the same protean tendencies as Julia , they are exaggerated to the point where they become dangerous . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | You must make sure that you are occupied to the point where you do not feel bored . |
| 5 | As early as 1906 , in many of Picasso 's paintings influenced by Iberian sculpture , forms are distended to the point of distortion , and because of this , in the heads of figures , the features , and particularly the mouths are unnaturally elongated . |
| 6 | We 're getting to the point . |
| 7 | I think for a very small company this perhaps might be more complicated in computing terms than would be worthwhile , but as soon as you 're getting to the point of many orders in a week , then it can be exceedingly useful to be able to ask the computer to tell you for example what are all the outstanding orders , what are all the overdue orders , what is the stock position bearing in mind that some stock is committed for certain orders , what orders have we got with suppliers to us which are still outstanding , and questions of this sort , can make your business much more efficient . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Her salary has been growing to the point where she feels she can afford to buy a home and it promises to climb much further over the next few years . |
| 10 | 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 ) |
| 11 | It is only subsequently that ‘ inter-mental ’ processes are understood to the point where the child can dispense with the adult and manipulate symbols ‘ intra-mentally ’ . |
| 12 | The performance revolves round rows of hissingly-hot pressure cookers , which are brought to the point of pressure ; suspended above them are boxes of ice , with nails and bits and pieces , which drop on to the pressure cooker lids as the ice melts . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The arrangement , however , was successfully pressed by the friends of the Duke of Montrose , in order , hopefully , to heal the threat of division in the county , lest feelings of dislike be aroused to the point of threatening the stability of the Montrose interest in parliamentary politics . |
| 15 | Exxon and Alyeska Pipeline and the state of Alaska let themselves be lulled to the point where they disbanded an emergency team and downgraded the equipment designed to fight oil spills at Valdez . |
| 16 | For the Conservative party which is in essence a party of power , huge historic perspective , huge experience of power , ever to get itself in a position where it 's perceived to be struggling to the point of self destruction , would have its political consequences and they would be dire . |
| 17 | Prayer and meditation may be alternated to foster a recollected attention , but no activity , however fruitful , should be pursued to the point of extremes : Hilton thus encourages a constant awareness of an inner life to be fostered . |
| 18 | Blood sugar levels and nutritional requirements do fluctuate , and so it is particularly important to be aware of what is occurring and to be educated to the point where you know how to treat your body at any given time of the month . |
| 19 | The cave continues but then suddenly falls to horrendous depths and a retreat must be made to the point of entry . |
| 20 | Jazz here is ‘ about fidelity , about the sole real art there is , about what one must be true to , come hell or high water ; what must be done to the point of collapse ( Škvorecký 1980 : 8 , 20 ) ; and in Škvoreck ý's; own Czechoslovakia , the persecution in the mid-1980s of the ‘ Jazz Section ’ — which has supported rock and punk as well as jazz — confirms the subversive potency and ‘ alternative ’ status , still , of this music . |
| 21 | The dialogue should be overlearned to the point of automatic response to the dialogue situation and practised in various adaptations . |
| 22 | One of the critics of the Touche Ross report , Professor Arthur Midwinter , of the department of politics at Strathclyde University , said last night that it now looked as if the scope for savings would be narrowed to the point where it had to be asked whether it was worthwhile proceeding with the reforms . |
| 23 | Some of the areas which are not directly destroyed could be damaged to the point where they are no longer viable as areas of conservation importance , says the report . |
| 24 | In the tropics where there are only wet and dry seasons and food is available almost all year round , birds do not need to perform extensive migrations , and the breeding season can be prolonged to the point where some birds can be found nesting almost the whole year round . |
| 25 | Although Innocent had wished the council and the princes to be brought to the point of declaring for Otto , the news , as related by Egidius , was so bad for the Welfs that he felt forced to intervene and declare for Otto at once . |
| 26 | The appeal will be restricted to the point or points of law raised in the notice of appeal . |
| 27 | ( The population size should be increased to the point at which the marginal gains to residents are made equal to the marginal costs to club residents as a result of increasing the number in the locality ; i.e. the property rights are vested with existing club members . ) |
| 28 | once the spawning is complete the female must get out of the male 's way and should be removed from the breeding tank , otherwise she may be harried to the point of being killed . |
| 29 | She positively reinforced this new behaviour making it more likely to be repeated to the point where it became a problem . |
| 30 | Kriel described the force as being committed to impartiality but warned that it would " never be crippled to the point where the SAP is scared to act against unrest " . |