Example sentences of "[adv prt] to [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somehow , in a little over 100 years , science has let its hard-won reputation be whored down to a point where its priests might as well be selling chocolate or cars . |
| 2 | This stretches from just below the wing fringe down to a point level with the centreline of the single chevron ; the joins are so finely stitched as to be almost invisible . |
| 3 | In the past three decades we might say that , in Scott Fitzgerald 's words , ‘ life was being refined down to a point ’ , in this case the point of increasing material consumption ; or , to put the matter in more political terms , that the industrialized societies , both capitalist and socialist , were developing the kind of narrow and obsessive orientation which Tawney ( 1921 , pp. 106–7 ) criticized when he wrote that : |
| 4 | More and more after these scenes he felt worn out , drained — as if his life were being slowly refined down to a point . |
| 5 | We er went as far as we could without er erm finding that we would have to delete allocations that we were making or produce unrealistic er development sites erm the the figure of er twenty five hectares simply means that we 're ratcheting the the whole thing down to a point at which it ca n't be sustained . |
| 6 | Clear the soil down to the point of origin , take a firm hold and wrench the growth away — never cut , no matter how resistant it is . |
| 7 | Satisfied that it would bring them exactly down to the point he wanted on the starboard side of Lord Jim , he asked — " How do you feel about your husband ? " |
| 8 | from right next to the needle down to the point and just go round it and then you weave it in and out like basket stitching and out over the cotton and under the cotton |
| 9 | We got votes against our proposals with no reasons given at all , you 've now got down to the point of having no reasons at all for opposing what we want to do . |
| 10 | The Lucas supply function predicts that the economy will move along to a point such as point B at which both prices and output are higher than at A : prices rise to and output rises to y t . |
| 11 | Titch steered close in to the point and Wycliffe could see the broad path of the Wheel and the mound of turves by which it had been shot into the air before its final plunge into the sea . |
| 12 | Once again it brings me in to the point where er double glazers have to go and measure up then do their , I know they 've got lovely lap tops I 've seen them now with their lap top comp their little samples there special catches here . |
| 13 | This in itself created a double problem because the action of this scene moves from a point where Nicholson is talking normally right through to the point where he is stoned and slurred through smoking marijuana . |
| 14 | What I 've done now is taken you through to the point where , we 're asking ourselves what is it that management make a mess of ? |
| 15 | His indignation frequently boiled over to a point where he thought and demanded that a libel writ should be issued . |
| 16 | Up to a point . |
| 17 | Yes , well , up to a point … |
| 18 | Up to a point , regulation may attract business by offering a more secure environment . |
| 19 | But only up to a point , you see . |
| 20 | Up to a point that is correct . |
| 21 | You can , up to a point ( and we did up to that point ) , protect yourself against them with jungle gels and mustard gases , but the trees give no mercy and there are hours of them between Staddajakkstugorna , a mountain hut on the side of Kapasluoppal , and Staloluokta . |
| 22 | In their personal freedom I would n't say they are free like English girls but they are up to a point . |
| 23 | As far as APEX is concerned they are OK up to a point but they just want to follow the legal procedures and we want them to take some kind of militant action . |
| 24 | They always want to follow legal procedures up to a point , when even they realised that without some kind of help from other unions they were not going to win this strike . |
| 25 | The watchword was always ‘ differentiation ’ which was plain enough up to a point : policy would not be made en bloc , but country by country , depending . |
| 26 | It 's an attractive vision , up to a point , and it has a certain reality . |
| 27 | Up to a point his ruthlessness succeeded . |
| 28 | It seems to have been working — up to a point at least — and even members of the opposition Popular Front agree that he has been accepted by many Moldavians . |
| 29 | Only up to a point : without oil Saddam Hussein would not have invaded Kuwait ; nor would his invasion have threatened the West 's security . |
| 30 | But the piling-up of EC surpluses of beef , dairy products and cereals could — up to a point . |