Example sentences of "[noun prp] to [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Roderigo , ‘ this poor trash of Venice ’ , leaves , Iago tells us that his plan is still vague , but that he intends to bring Othello to the point where surface and reality are so inverted that he will ‘ thank ’ Iago for making him an ass , In the event , Iago succeeds in making Cassio drunk , proceeds to ‘ put ’ him into an ‘ action ’ that — just like the tribunes ' manipulation — degrades him yet ‘ approves my dream ’ ( II.iii.58ff. ) — his fantasy or plan of success . |
| 2 | Having brought Othello to the point where he proclaims ‘ I 'll see before I doubt ’ , and when he knows , ‘ Away at once with love or jealousy ! ’ ( 191ff . ) , |
| 3 | Whatever doubts there may be about Edward 's commitment to crusade , none can be entertained of John XXII's , for he did all that he could to bring England to a state of peace and Edward to the point of departure . |
| 4 | a ) The need for further attention to the footway on the north side of Lanark Road from the junction of Baberton Avenue to a point east of the Candy Box where , even after a moderate fall of rain , pools form . |
| 5 | This time , Gina 's ‘ small , greasy artist friend ’ annoyed Nigel to the point that he had to take Eleanor into his study to talk about them . |
| 6 | The latest 280sq miles of fields stretch from the Red Wharf Bay area of Anglesey to a point a few miles from Crosby . |
| 7 | The post-war frontier changes have brought the Alpine valley of the Isonzo ( Soča ) within the confines of Yugoslavia , and the present frontier follows the ridges to the west of the Soča to the point where the river enters Italy at Gorizia ( Gorica ) and flows across the Friulian plain to enter the Adriatic near Monfalcone ( Tržič ) . |
| 8 | Law had indeed brought Asquith to the point of conceding all that could be hoped for from Ulster 's resistance , but he was unable to seize the fruits . |
| 9 | By the time the crowd was invited to sample the barbecues scattered around the periphery of the park , and made available by the generosity of a local philanthropist and patriot , Plan Crockett , the second campaign to destabilize John Cormack to the point of resignation , was on the road . |
| 10 | Long before any of this , Kevin Brown had returned from looking at the corpse of Simon Cormack to the point where Quinn still stood . |
| 11 | That same year the new king of France , Charles IV , pressed his claims of overlordship in Gascony to the point of open hostilities . |
| 12 | Before the Americans were irrevocably committed , however , and before the French positions on the Chinese frontier were overrun , they could conceivably have strengthened non-communist national forces in Vietnam to the point where they had a better chance of competing with the Vietminh or even , biting on the bullet , the French could have tried to negotiate a settlement , no matter what alarm that prospect might have caused their American allies . |
| 13 | The ‘ diffuseness ’ and ‘ elusiveness ’ of central control , the relaxed and constructive atmosphere , the absence of stress and conflict described by HMIs — all these appear to contradict the expectations and experience of the average ‘ curriculum manager ’ in England and Wales to the point where he or she must ask : ‘ Can I learn anything at all either from Denmark or from an international perspective ? ’ |
| 14 | It touched Lorca to the point that he reduced his poetry to a secondary status , concentrating on theatrical communication as a better means of getting his message over . |
| 15 | In their distinctly separate ways both the market model and the CAPM have taken the rather cumbersome analysis developed by Markowitz and the CML model developed by Tobin to a point which is of practical use for professional portfolio management . |