| But while Peps allowed you to invest in equities and Tessas in tax-free deposits, with an Isa you can do both, up to a point. |
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| It worked, but only up to a point, for this year's bumper crop has been almost entirely eaten by a family of robins. |
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| Because the autopilot can compensate for the accumulating ice up to a point, the pilot may not realize that there is a problem. |
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| The printed census returns, upon which the figures are based, can be regarded as accurate only up to a point, even at the national level. |
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| I'm gregarious up to a point and then I have to have total solitude for at least two days. |
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| Well, I like funny-shaped buildings up to a point, and this one would make, I reckon, an excellent motor museum. |
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| I think it is important that they have a different vision of how America advances its goals in the world, up to a point. |
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| The migration of religious sects to America made the colonies a natural breeding ground for religious freedom, but only up to a point. |
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| The behaviour is explicable and the scenario interesting only, as I say, up to a point. |
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| Adding carbon to iron to make steel does make it stronger and tougher, up to a point. |
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| Well, up to a point, all are much of a muchness as they all use the same components. |
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| We need physicians and food-and-drug regulators to advise us, up to a point. |
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| There is no doubt that virtual reality is a valuable tool that can save time and money, but designers and industry chiefs trust virtual cars only up to a point. |
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| Civil partnerships perform this function up to a point, but they are not equal to marriage. |
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| I think he is right up to a point, which makes the rapporteur's work all the more remarkable and meritorious and I thank him. |
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| His letter was misaddressed and failed to reach the committee on time, and the rest is history, up to a point. |
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| Miami Beach is an exotic, exciting fleshpot where anything goes, up to a point. |
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| Bottling long overdue demijohns of wine and generally tidying up has restored domestic harmony up to a point. |
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| Fuzzy logic is only suitable up to a point for error recognition in acoustic transmission e.g. in a call centre. |
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| The current anti-gangsterism legislation includes other activities up to a point. |
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| Its pace of expansion is very rapid indeed, but up to a point it is purchasing in a buyers' market, simply because the big brands are so anxious to sell. |
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| So, 'goth culture' as a way to describe a tribe will work, but only up to a point. |
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| Investment in local defence research and production activities also exists, up to a point. |
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| He also participated in the deliberations of the Tribunal up to a point at which it had reached the substance of its decision. |
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| This message has not been heard, up to a point where the Europe 2020 strategy hardly sees our role as partners. |
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| To conclude, the communities have good reason-and up to a point, the resources-to take charge of knowledge about their vitality. |
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| Risk assets are attractive, argues Léon Cornelissen, Robeco's Chief Economist, but only up to a point. |
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| The topic is unpopular with teachers, which is understandable up to a point. |
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| Cue a spate of rants about how he was part of the aetiology of the problem – which indeed he was, up to a point concerning deregulation, which was the wisdom of the age. |
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| We are made of sterner stuff. Well, up to a point. |
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| Each has praised the other for a willingness to listen — up to a point. |
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| The food follows tradition, up to a point. |
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| This does not apply to the port of Saint-Malo or area of where any means is authorized to return the port or to leave up to a point clarified in the Race Instructions. |
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| Their programmes followed the directed ideological and political issues only up to a point and they therefore kept in their programme structure many programmes, designed for all kinds of people. |
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| This opposition to the Canadian proposal was germane up to a point, and it is not surprising that Clause 2 of the North Atlantic Treaty was little used until very recently. |
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| The crews of both trains incorrectly identified the position of the opposing train as being on the adjacent track up to a point where it was too late to react and apply the brakes soon enough to avert the collision. |
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| And that is how I reckon IDS survived in the Scots Guards: He'd take the 'Kick Me' signs, the backchat and name calling up to a point, but when that point was reached, boy did everybody know about it. |
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| A swansong, say others. The morale-boosting works only up to a point. |
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| So I praise these young people's self-mastery – but only up to a point. |
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| White and yellow flesh potato have xanthophyllous carotenoids. Yellow color intensity is a determinant of xanthophyll content up to a point. |
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| Nevertheless social pressure must be stepped up to a point where young people especially do not start smoking, and women to not take up smoking either. |
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| Although intrinsic factors in the aid sector explain why this is the case up to a point, there is no excuse for aid organisations not to try harder. |
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| However, with the exception up to a point of direct debit, none of those payment instruments can be regarded as a real alternative to the acceptance giro for the following reasons. |
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| The approach is legitimate, up to a point. |
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| Items requiring mandatory briefings warrant standardized presentations of a consistently high quality, so as to bring all controllers quickly up to a point where they can safely implement the new procedures. |
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| The court is obliged to do the job of the legislature, while cases mount up to a point where the effectiveness of right of access to the court, or at least to a fair trial within a reasonable timeframe, is harmed. |
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| It's all very well, up to a point, to foreshorten and oversimplify your opponent's position in order to heighten your own rhetorical pizzazz and percussiveness. |
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| Up to a point, this transformation can be explained by the twelvefold multiplication of the human population between 1500 and 2000, but this is obviously not the whole story. |
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| Up to a point increases in the amount of capital per worker are an important cause of economic output growth. |
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| Up to a point, the rules and regulations of the many federal executive agencies have a similar effect. |
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