Example sentences of "the essential point be " in BNC.

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1 The essential point is that real interest rates effectively determine the cost of housing to the homebuyer .
2 The essential point is that if two beneficial mutations , A and B , occur in different individuals in the same population , sex and recombination can bring them together in a single descendant .
3 The essential point is not that a feminist reading of the eighteenth century is impossible , but that it must , as Munns suggests , recognize not only sexual difference , but the difference between one century and another
4 While it might be interesting to compare Mrs. Simper 's and Sophronia 's reactions to lower servants better educated than themselves , the essential point is that a violation of the ordinary division of labour could easily result in a domestic servant losing his or her place .
5 The essential point is that a conception of justice fulfils its social role provided that citizens equally conscientious and sharing roughly the same beliefs find that , by affirming the framework of deliberation set up by it , they are normally led to a sufficient convergence of opinion .
6 The Minister ( Sir Edward Boyle ) announced that this would take place in 1970/1 and wrote a remarkable preface to the published text in which he stated that ‘ the essential point is that all children should have an equal opportunity of acquiring intelligence , and developing their talents and abilities to the full ’ .
7 A great variety of words are used but the essential point is the same .
8 In any case , the essential point is that the government 's running costs greatly exceed its income , if you exclude the money gained from selling fishing licences .
9 ‘ It 's potentially a very tough , very violent martial art , but the essential point is that it can , and should , be very beautiful and very graceful , ’ he adds .
10 The essential point is that responsibility is assigned and , therefore , authority is delegated for which the individual is accountable in his role .
11 For Menninger , the essential point is that ‘ in work , as contrasted with purposeless destruction , the aggressive impulses are moulded and guided in a constructive direction by the influence of the creative ( erotic ) instinct ’ ( Menninger , 1942 ) .
12 The essential point is that there are no universal solutions .
13 The essential point is that meaning negotiation , which , in normal circumstances , is always a matter of achieving an objective by the most economical means , will be carried out by taking whatever short cuts are available .
14 Either explanation is reasonable , but the essential point is that both clearly point to poor control .
15 Nevertheless , for a number of writers the essential point is not so much that these ideas on unemployment and social welfare were new , as that a broad political consensus developed around them which achieved its apotheosis in the triumph of Keynesianism in 1947 [ Booth , 1983 ; 1984 ] .
16 The essential point is that sexuality as such disturbed him — even in his early letters to Conrad Aiken we see his sexual impulses towards women engaged in an unequal struggle with his own need for self-possession ( or self-preservation ) and control .
17 The essential point is that one has a painful feeling of shame , and is anxious to hide one 's nakedness , usually by means of locomotion , but is absolutely unable to do so .
18 The subject is a large and complex one , but the essential point is simple , and easily illustrated .
19 The essential point is that the use of numerical data should be adapted to the need .
20 The essential point is that the introduction prepares for what is to come , and is a unified part of it .
21 Of course the essential point is not whether the accounts are subjective or objective ; it is the extent to which they are useful .
22 The poetic name has been replaced by terms such as " chaotic complex " and the pseudo-scientific " Olistostromes " without really adding to our knowledge , but the essential point is that submarine landslipping is now thought to be only part of the process rather than the whole .
23 Despite these caveats , the essential point is that the buying and selling of derivative assets is a process by which risk bearing is transferred between individuals .
24 The essential point is that the draftsman always has the choice .
25 The essential point is that identification of the goods is that with which the section is concerned . "
26 But certainly we er as I said , the essential point is that we are looking , looking at the capability across the board and taking into account the strategic requirement as we see it in terms of the direct threat to the U K in particular , which is obviously dramatically declined as a result of the collapse of the Warsaw pact .
27 The essential point was that the medieval Church was a ‘ sex-negative ’ institution — sex was a bad thing because it interfered with the search for spiritual perfection .
28 The essential point was made by R. H. Tawney :
29 The essential point was that , in those major companies with a active internal audit function , it already had enough on its plate .
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