Example sentences of "[adj] point [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The interesting point is not the seeming indolence but the subject matter and the venue . |
| 2 | The gallery faces west but , owing to the conversion , this point is not particularly relevant . |
| 3 | ‘ or disorderly behaviour ’ This point is not defined but it is felt that any conduct which is not orderly and is not covered by ‘ threatening , abusive , or insulting words or behaviour ’ would suffice . |
| 4 | The question that should be asked at this point is not whether the West should intervene militarily , but what does it want out of such an exploit ? |
| 5 | By English cooks this point is not and has never been sufficiently appreciated . |
| 6 | Second , this contribution has the potential to produce some conflict within the conversation , since ‘ what is being talked about ’ up to this point is not present time . |
| 7 | However , this point is not a static marker , but moves along the horizon as the sun travels across the sky in an arc . |
| 8 | This point is not relevant to a pole , where the heading will hang below the suspension point ( fig. 7c ) . |
| 9 | The second point is not so negative . |
| 10 | Here the central point is not to try to imitate arts education in RE , but to encourage links with what pupils do and experience in their arts education . |
| 11 | That choice of six points is not mine , it was the County Surveyor 's choice . |
| 12 | Melville says she would prefer it if he said that they loved each other , and that subtle point is not lost on anyone . |
| 13 | This may seem a statement of the obvious , but examiners for universities , colleges and professional institutions are agreed that this very obvious point is not appreciated by the candidates . |
| 14 | The first of these points is not relevant here : as will be shown later , it does not contain the classical conception of trust wording . |
| 15 | This latter point is not easily achieved , especially when questionnaires are used with small numbers . |
| 16 | This latter point is not intended to imply that scientists have suddenly ‘ got God ’ ; rather that they have generally refused to admit that , if some event is widely reported in religious writings , there is a very good chance that it did in fact happen . |
| 17 | The important point is not the long-term justification , or lack of it , of the resettlement programme but the very authoritarian manner of its conception and implementation . |
| 18 | But the important point is not that they would hesitate to do it , but that we would not be interested if they did . |
| 19 | The important point is not whether Luther and Calvin happened to make peremptory remarks , exuding a lifetime 's confidence in a pre-Copernican cosmology , but whether their exegetical principles implied an inevitable clash as the new system gained in plausibility . |
| 20 | The important point is not to try to harmonise this account with that of Luke in the Acts — after all , John in all probability never read Luke 's work , and presents the material in a very different manner and with different aims . |
| 21 | However , for the purposes of the current research the important point is not necessarily whether RHT is correct but whether one of the main propositions underlying it is correct . |
| 22 | The critical point is not so much the adequacy of the safety plans as the perceptions and beliefs that people hold about them ’ . |
| 23 | I think one point is not allowed for in the criteria and that it is of relevance . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | 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 ] . |
| 26 | Of course the essential point is not whether the accounts are subjective or objective ; it is the extent to which they are useful . |
| 27 | In view of this maybe 11 games unbeaten is a good run ( where as 24/33 points is not so good ) . |
| 28 | My Service wanted me to try and penetrate it , just on general grounds , but I told them : the whole point is not to have their names on our files , all ready for the Soviets to take over . |
| 29 | But an obvious implication of this last point is not confirmed by the observations . |
| 30 | This latter is historical , it would seem , in two senses : one in terms of the history of the individual , and the other in terms of the history of human cultural development , although this last point is not clear in Freud . |