Example sentences of "up [prep] [art] point [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was satisfied up to a point today , but the game was there to be taken . |
| 2 | He compiled the first useful tables of travel times of seismic phases and used them to show that wave speeds increase smoothly with depth , up to a point where they suffer a sharp decrease , which he identified with the boundary of a central core ‘ possessing radically different physical properties ’ , though he did not conclude that the core was liquid . |
| 3 | Well up to a point indeed but er the men would er help out I doubt . |
| 4 | If the scores are tied , then the referee panel will award the victory on the basis of their appraisal of both contestants ' performances up to the point where injury occurred . |
| 5 | But they are prepared to act on the political stage according to a script which permits pragmatic compromise up to the point where further compromise would endanger the fundamental evangelical principles of the background . |
| 6 | Another criterion that works well is to continue delegating up to the point where subordinates either actually object , or begin to fail to deliver successful results . |
| 7 | The first six steps of Part 3 , Objective 1 , have been completed , up to the point where an intervention programme has been written . |
| 8 | ‘ It all builds up to the point where it affects your game . |
| 9 | And what about you ? 3 Now tell the story of what happens in the labyrinth , up to the point where you find the Minotaur . |
| 10 | Conventionally , we would expect people to borrow up to the point where the utility gained from the last pound borrowed is just equal to the cost of borrowing it . |
| 11 | She kept the candle burning right up to the point where she felt drowsy , then blew it out . |
| 12 | Now what I want to do in this lecture is to finish off the er introductory part of my , of my remarks and take us up to the point where beginning at twelve o'clock the real part , the real er core of this course begins when we start to look at social theory . |
| 13 | Manage thus expresses notionally the movement of approach signified by to from a position before the event up to the point where its realization begins . |
| 14 | Brenda is in competition with another speaker ( most of whose words are inaudible ) from then right up to the point where she winds up with her Creole " punchline " turaatid , a mildish curse more or less equivalent to " for god 's sake " . |
| 15 | The solution arrived at was to compensate only ‘ for loss of development value which accrued in the past up to the point where the 1947 axe fell — but not for loss of development value accruing in the future ’ . |
| 16 | Rather than go through the entire process again in a later session , it would make more sense to take it up at the point where it was left off in the previous session , if desired . |
| 17 | It began as greed to steal and ended up at the point where they really were n't concerned about who they shot or why . |
| 18 | With the completion of the Staffordshire and Worcestershire Canal in that year , and the refusal of the town of Bewdley to have anything to do with it , a new town shot up at the point where the canal joined the Severn . |