Example sentences of "even to the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | BS is like a man who knows all about swimming , even to the point of being able to train the Olympic team , but who can not swim himself , and V is the man with the normal talent for swimming . |
| 2 | Much attention has been given to the seemingly altruistic behaviour of dolphins , with various authors citing such examples as the way cetaceans will assist or stand by other ill , injured or stranded animals even to the point of their own death . |
| 3 | They also need physical change in routine to provide mental stimulation , even to the point of excitement . |
| 4 | To be used in any way they see fit , even to the point of humiliation . |
| 5 | Thus have governments and their interests pre-empted perception , even to the point of dragooning the commodities of the world 's markets into nationality — Japanese cars , Pakistani cricket bats , German steel . |
| 6 | A Polish Socialist Party of Prussia , formed in 1893 , challenged the right of the German Social Democratic Party to represent Poles — even to the point of fielding election candidates against the German party ( which then withdrew its fraternal subsidy to the Poles ) . |
| 7 | However , despite all the emergencies , in the first instance , the Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia ( of 18 November 1917 ) boldly committed the new Bolshevik Government to support the national self-determination of Russia 's peoples ‘ even to the point of separation and the formation of an independent State ’ . |
| 8 | Two films , Hell 's Angels on Wheels and Rebel Rouser were supposed to follow in the wake of The Wild Angels , even to the point of including some of the cast of that film , like Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd . |
| 9 | Control if exercised by making the individual user responsible , by name , for the materials issued , even to the point of making a personal issue against a signature . |
| 10 | It is the prospect of this examination that seems to fill many women with terror , even to the point at which it provides the reason for putting off attendance . |
| 11 | As the weeks and months went by and the war seemed turning in favour of the Allies , I became more and more attached to the Semmens household , even to the point of getting to know some of the family friends such as Mrs Helen Margo and her sister , who owned and managed a shop of Oriental goods on Howe Street . |
| 12 | They can be close or loose , highly defined or only vaguely so , even to the point of being implicit . |
| 13 | The ‘ Pezzo informa di Sonatina ’ first movement turns out to be a fairly laid back affair , with every attempt made to lighten the load of Tchaikovsky 's passionately heavy scoring , even to the point of having multi-spread quadruple stopping reduced to simultaneously sounded double stops . |
| 14 | A classic example of this is the need some elderly people have to talk about death — often their own death in particular , even to the point of wanting to discuss very freely the kind of arrangements they would like to be made for their funeral : how it should be conducted , what hymns should be chosen , and who should be invited to it and to the family gathering afterwards . |
| 15 | Even pride , the most self-centred of passions implies that one does see oneself from other viewpoints and care whether one is admired or despised , even to the point perhaps of valuing respect by others above self-preservation . |
| 16 | ‘ It sounds as if , in your family , there was a message that being sexy equalled being tarty , and that the consequences of that might be dangerous — even to the point of getting killed , ’ suggested the counsellor . |
| 17 | Prison official David Seary , who is hoping to introduce the scheme next year at Birmingham 's Winson Green Jail , said : ‘ Young inmates can become depressed , even to the point of taking their own lives . |
| 18 | Discipleship means being prepared to follow Jesus even to the point of death . |
| 19 | Where the evidence seems incontrovertible , it may sometimes be desirable to confront the persons concerned , even to the point of suggesting that a referral to the police might be made . |
| 20 | When this happens , they should be peeled away from the root stock , even to the point of there being no leaves at all , and as the roots become established , longer , paler leaves will begin to grow in their place . |
| 21 | Properly to understand this , one needs to spell out the counter-argument , even to the point of saying what ordinarily goes without saying . |
| 22 | The network centring on Macaulay as secretary of the African Institution also provided evidence and argument which persuaded the Admiralty to order naval vessels to act against foreign slave traders , even to the point of illegality . |
| 23 | Strong goal orientation , even to the point of creating unnecessary hurdles . |
| 24 | Those staff people who measure technical perfection ( often internal audit ) acquire extraordinary power even to the point of terrifying those they are meant to assist . |
| 25 | They may well limit the uses to which property may be put and hence affect its value , even to the point where owners may prefer not to allow it to be used at all ; but they do not alter the fact that ownership confers the licence to use , or not to use . |
| 26 | The number of their supporters , if not activists , was enormously enhanced by the way in which the Vichy régime had mobilized the country 's youth in patriotic but hitherto innocuous associations which now underpinned the revolution , perhaps even to the point where youth was as critical a factor in the Vietnamese revolution as it was , at the same time , in Indonesia . |
| 27 | They were still neat , aligned and stacked precisely , even to the point of pedantry , they were in perfect order , only it was an order that made no sense whatsoever , an order in which Flavia had not left them . |
| 28 | Another sign of attachment is the revival of the art of cameo-cutting , beginning with the commissions bestowed by popes , prelates and connoisseurs at the time of the Renaissance , persisting through the period of bourgeois dominance and continuing into the present age of enfranchisement even to the point at which resort has had to be made to substitute materials like shell or paste to satisfy a greatly enlarged market . |
| 29 | Jeopardy was pleased , even to the point of suggesting they should perform the piece for Mandru together when the time came . |
| 30 | The surface of Mercury , like that of the Moon , could consist largely of fragmented silicates , even to the point of dust . |