Example sentences of "point [is] [conj] [pron] [be] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the point is that we are not told why the distinction between particular and species-identity makes sense at all . |
| 2 | The underlying point is that it is not every act of provocation which should be allowed to reduce murder to manslaughter , but only those serious enough to unbalance the behaviour of a person with reasonable self-control . |
| 3 | However that may be , the striking point is that it is not the law of trusts which is leading the way to generous interpretation here , but instead the civil law . |
| 4 | The first point is that it is not only the super-ego which is internalized — that is , taken over by identification from cathected social objects — but that there are involved other important components which presumably must be included in the ego — namely , the system of cognitive categorizations of the object world and the system of expressive symbolism . |
| 5 | The point is that it is not just a case of drawing circles around thinkers whose stance one may happen to approve . |
| 6 | You could be a realist , an expressionist or a nouveau romancier but the point is that you are not content to record things as they are . |
| 7 | but , erm , you see the point is that you 're not , what suits one does n't suit another |