Example sentences of "up to [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to a point . |
| 2 | Yes , well , up to a point … |
| 3 | Up to a point , regulation may attract business by offering a more secure environment . |
| 4 | But only up to a point , you see . |
| 5 | Up to a point that is correct . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In their personal freedom I would n't say they are free like English girls but they are up to a point . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It 's an attractive vision , up to a point , and it has a certain reality . |
| 12 | Up to a point his ruthlessness succeeded . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Only up to a point : without oil Saddam Hussein would not have invaded Kuwait ; nor would his invasion have threatened the West 's security . |
| 15 | But the piling-up of EC surpluses of beef , dairy products and cereals could — up to a point . |
| 16 | So it does — up to a point . |
| 17 | Up to a point they will , but they can not afford to let rescuing the banks sap their competitiveness , whether against other Japanese firms or against foreign ones . |
| 18 | Up to a point , the more money that racecourses spend , the more exciting the races , the more punters therefore spend , and so on . |
| 19 | The gods could , up to a point , be merciful ; but it was fate that was all-powerful . |
| 20 | It will be seen that English law does this up to a point , and in the process seems to accept social-defence arguments as reasons for departing from several of the principles set out in Chapter 3 . |
| 21 | ‘ I think you 're right up to a point , ’ agrees Friday . |
| 22 | McFarlane took it to heart also , but only up to a point . |
| 23 | Finally the helpful priest drove up to a point overlooking a fine old stone harbour , with a few houses on the quayside . |
| 24 | Are they saying , they only have control up to a point ? |
| 25 | This deliberate use of anti-climax is effective up to a point , but it gives the book a rather flat , colourless quality . |
| 26 | He thinks that he wants a reconciliation , and up to a point he does ; but what he hopes most of all is that Alfred will give his blessing to the new play he has written — a drama of sibling rivalry called Brother Mine . |
| 27 | The bar stool and the soapbox were corny but they worked , up to a point . |
| 28 | So in normal circumstances the WEA is a voluntary movement up to a point , but also a partnership between voluntary and professional members — and a partnership which usually achieves the best results in a context of mutual respect . |
| 29 | In attempting to explain this last finding , Hall and Honey ( 1990 ) offered a suggestion based on the observation ( made by many but see , e.g. Schachtman , Channell , and Hall ( 1987 ) that , with prolonged conditioned suppression training , the CR grows up to a point and then begins to decline in magnitude . |
| 30 | The Medical Research Council were helpful up to a point , but even Mellanby rapidly found Florey 's demands tiresome and support from that quarter dwindled . |