Example sentences of "a point [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To assert this is merely to reiterate a point that should be obvious : that science , however sophisticated its instrumentation , can not generate observations that somehow enable us to look at the relationship between experience and the world as it were from outside of experience . |
| 2 | Recently , Eagleton , in denying the total centrality of the class struggle , reached a point that some might claim was no longer compatible with Marxism . |
| 3 | He pleaded that the time had come for government bona fides to be accepted at face value and reiterated , emphatically , that the fact that all South Africans should have the vote was no longer a point that required further discussion . |
| 4 | Up to a point that is correct . |
| 5 | By 1876 , planning had reached such a point that France and Britain signed a protocol laying down the basis of a treaty governing the construction of the tunnel and a start was made on either side of the Channel . |
| 6 | A parabola is the locus of a point that moves such that it is equidistant from a fixed point , the focus , and a straight line , the directrix . |
| 7 | Others argue that Labour would first have to win power on its own merits — a point that will be made again and again by such figures as Mr Blair in the weeks ahead . |
| 8 | ‘ These arguments ( against fast foods ) use lack of balance to dramatize a point that would be seen instantly to be ludicrous if presented reasonably . |
| 9 | This is a point that has been commonly overlooked in the past , even by geologists , since there is a general tendency to assume that the only rocks worth bothering about are ‘ hard ’ rocks , which can be hit with a hammer ! |
| 10 | To a point that is true , but often that effort results in an over-exertion of ourselves which can leave us fatigued and exhausted . |
| 11 | I would like to point out that when your Alexander teacher talks about ‘ unreliable feelings ’ he is talking about sensory feelings and not emotions or intuition ( a point that has confused many people in the past ) . |
| 12 | But on the Carvin this is not so because they have set the on/off facility at such a point that only the ‘ send ’ side is affected , leaving your last reverb treated signal to die away naturally . |
| 13 | And it is a point that needs to be rammed home to directors even more firmly than to auditors . |
| 14 | As the son of new immigrants , he has experienced his own share of cultural adjustment , a point that 's easily forgotten . |
| 15 | All systems based on the ideal of equality break down in action : that is a point that might be expected of Waugh , but it is Orwell who makes it the more forcefully : ‘ Some animals are more equal than others ’ , as the pigs decree in Animal Farm , symbolising the easy self-justifications of Leninists in taking and keeping power . |
| 16 | This is a point that becomes even more acutely relevant when considering the relation between black and white cultures in modern Britain . |
| 17 | A point that is often forgotten is that effective co-operation is not just a matter of professionals working with each other . |
| 18 | Historicity is a mode of knowledge for some societies but can not ipso facto claim to be the fundamental basis of knowledge for all of them — a point that was to be re-emphasized by Foucault in The Order of Things . |
| 19 | They all made it clear that handing patients over to the press was a regular occurrence ( a point that none of the committee commented on or asked questions about ) . |
| 20 | On the other hand , William of Poitiers imputed to Guy Geoffrey , Thibaud , and Geoffrey Martel irritation at being obliged to perform military service when summoned — which suggests acceptance of their duty ; Orderic 's words imply that Fulk the Young clearly recognized the dependent status of Anjou in 1106 when he did homage to Philip I. The differences of opinion on a point that later lawyers were to regard as fundamental to the monarchy 's position must be taken as proof that , for the great at least , the equation between a fidelis and a vassus could not yet be taken for granted . |
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| 22 | Even more noticeably lacking is the support for such exercises ; a point that became clear in the HMI-LEA curriculum appraisal activity , where advisers , for example , were unable to provide the support required . |
| 23 | Key settlements have also been criticized on social grounds , a point that will be elaborated in the next section . |
| 24 | But a point that needs to be stressed here is that logic and deduction alone can not establish the truth of factual statements of the kind figuring in our examples . |
| 25 | They may also prove to be useful when it comes to breeding , a point that will be covered later in the series . |
| 26 | I 'd just like to raise a point that erm most men are psychiat , er mo most of the psychiatrists are men and that a lot of the diagnosis I feel , come from a very sort of patriarchal view erm , you know a lot of have sort of brought up the alternative sort of er medicine and er self-help groups , and to me , having been through psychiatry which is a , a huge machine that is very difficult to get out that er to me , that 's the only future and there 's millions of pounds going into psychiatry and we 're reviewing it now with community care plans which , I I do n't think anybody is actually clear about but er , you know , the the millions that are put into psychiatry , I 'd like to see more sort of counselling er , become available or , more money given to sort of er mental health associations . |
| 27 | For example , if the figure was a line diagram of a room with four windows set at different heights , the programme would ask me whether a line of sight from the far corner of the room would enable me to see a particular point outside the window nearest to me , a point that shifted on the screen at speed . |
| 28 | It 's the suicidal greatness of America , I think Annabel means , to have raised opportunism to such a point that even people who would n't dream of ditching anything else feel that this has to be plucked out . |
| 29 | There was nothing revealing about Culley 's pause — the surprise was genuine , as if Sanchez had come straight to a point that Culley had intended to arrive at slowly . |
| 30 | More like ordinary disappointment , multiplied to a point that was nearly unbearable . |