Example sentences of "more to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | The virtue of artists ' writings for the reader of criticism is that it can often serve as a touchstone for judging the worth of mediators , particularly those presenting views of what the artist intended ; what the artist said may be more to the point . |
| 2 | Moreover — and more to the point — if as literary intellectuals we feel frustrated at having no channel of access to the figures who exercise decision-making power in our societies , Mrs Lowndes shows us a society in which literary intelligence had direct access to such centres of power , by way of the conjugal bed as well as over the dinner table . |
| 3 | Still more to the point is another essay in that volume , ‘ Mr Eliot s Solid Merit ’ ( originally in the New English Weekly for 12 July 1934 ) . |
| 4 | This is very astute criticism of Yeats : but more to the point is that Pound here confesses self-doubts such as he would have concealed from anyone he did not trust absolutely . |
| 5 | He is Joseph Zappala , a Florida property developer , who has never been to Spain and perhaps , more to the point , speaks no Spanish . |
| 6 | But more to the point , Shakespeare did n't envisage Agincourt being fully enacted in the first place . |
| 7 | More to the point , however , the public does not recognise this either . |
| 8 | More to the point , it is looking to expand its European credit operations which are comparatively small , but highly profitable . |
| 9 | Its attractive format appeals to the BBC but , more to the point for Suntory , Japanese television shows three hours of play a day . |
| 10 | Is this a £500,000-a-month ego trip , with Williams in pursuit of the world title that , on present form , seems can only be won by a McLaren-Honda or a Ferrari — or , more to the point , by Ayrton Senna or Alain Prost ? |
| 11 | More to the point , you fail to mention the fact that the Government has offered talks on a pay structure which would ensure that those ambulance workers with a high skill level , who tend to be those who deal with the worst accidents , are paid more to reflect their training . |
| 12 | More to the point , perhaps , around a hundred of its most active members were arrested last month . |
| 13 | More to the point , they vote as proxies for private shareholders who typically deposit their shares in the bank 's custody . |
| 14 | More to the point , the West thinks that pushing NATO 's frontier to the Soviet border would , at the moment , help just the wrong people in Moscow . |
| 15 | More to the point , it would cost more to cancel Concorde than the relatively paltry £17 million it would cost to go back on the Channel Tunnel . |
| 16 | Even more to the point , a new opportunity should be given to over 10 million people who were covered only by state provision . |
| 17 | Even more to the point , a leak of this kind simply hands to the Opposition a weapon on a silver plate and raises fears on your own benches . |
| 18 | More to the point , what is he on about ? |
| 19 | Among his opponents was Pinza , ridden by Gordon Richards , the most successful and ( more to the point ) most loved jockey in British Turf history , yet still trying to win the Derby after twenty-seven unavailing attempts : to add further spice to the occasion , the announcement had just been made that Richards had been awarded a knighthood , the first jockey to be so honoured . |
| 20 | It is how you regard yourself , by what standard , which is far more to the point . |
| 21 | And even more to the point — what are the other emotions ? |
| 22 | He found it necessary to try to offset any lingering Scottish doubts by suggesting his daughter Elizabeth as a bride for Arran 's son , and , more to the point , offering 5000 men to aid Arran in defeating any opposition . |
| 23 | More to the point , it was Bagehot who said : ‘ A constitutional statesman is in general a man of common opinions and uncommon abilities . ’ |
| 24 | More to the point , Labour 's legacy from the 1970s and 1980s lives on . |
| 25 | More to the point , considering her new responsibility for health , one of the hottest potatoes in government , her daughter is working as a junior doctor . |
| 26 | More to the point , extensive studies by Dutch biologists suggest that as many as 200 out of the 300 original haplochromine species are now extinct . |
| 27 | Or , more to the point , how they could live in peace and make money . |
| 28 | More to the point , she 's a Communist . ’ |
| 29 | More to the point , he has modified the right by taking a less than severe attitude to breaches of section 58 . |
| 30 | ‘ And what 's more to the point , lots of bars . ’ |