Example sentences of "[art] point [is] that [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I considered the contents of the squadron report , it seemed to me that the probability was that the bodies were those of aircrew from supply aircraft , for there was some suggestion in the report that a Liberator and a Halifax had been lost over the Morvan when ferrying supplies ; but the point is that no proper statement was ever made in regimental records . |
| 2 | This is not the same thing as saying that any tone can be used in any context ; the point is that no particular tone has a unique ‘ privilege of occurrence ’ in a particular context . |
| 3 | But the point is that a great variety of inputs and outputs are employed and interact with each other . |
| 4 | The point is that a statement to the effect that a given concept is non-empty presupposes an understanding of " existence " rather than enabling us to grasp its meaning ; unless , of course , the concept is such that its non-emptiness analytically follows from its meaning , in which case all that is required is to understand the concept . |
| 5 | The point is that a " pluralistic " inference is based on the assumption that such relations depict an objective order of things " out there " , not merely our own impression of such an order , and this is precisely where the main difficulty lies . |
| 6 | The point is that a careful reading of this fluent and apparently self-conscious critical analysis of a culture raises serious suspicions about the nature of its claims . |
| 7 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 8 | The point is that an equation can be interpreted as stating this : given each of a number of possible extents to which specified things possess certain different general properties , it is then the case , despite accompanying conditions and events , that another specified thing would still possess another general property to one of a number of possible extents . |
| 9 | The point is that the traditional concepts of intention and recklessness do not , of themselves , appear to be sufficiently well focused to mark out those killings which are the most heinous . |
| 10 | The point is that the trivial names and acronyms are easy to remember and immediately evoke fond memories . |
| 11 | The point is that the law demands the right to define the permissible exceptions . |
| 12 | But the point is that the mind of a child is often capable of a greater grasp of the complexity of a theological problem than an adult . |
| 13 | The point is that the experts were convinced Leakey was wrong when they could not possibly have known this to be the case In his rollicking ‘ Steady-state cosmology revisited ’ , Sir Fred Hoyle recounts what occurred when a paper submitted by his fellow astrophysicist Sir Hermann Bondi was set before that august body , the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 14 | The point is that the one exploitation is part of the other , either way women are treated as shit . ’ |
| 15 | But the point is that the inner voice , or the voice of conscience , is not self-authenticating . |
| 16 | The point is that the psychophysical approach forces you to develop a model of how the system , in this instance the mechanisms of colour discrimination , might work and it is this model that is used to guide the direct physiological measurements . |
| 17 | The point is that the Council took decisions that appeared revolutionary enough in the context of Catholic life as it had hitherto been , but that , only a few years later , seemed instead as rather cautious half-measures requiring very considerable extension . |
| 18 | This last description is often misunderstood : the point is that the economic is never a simple causal function that operates alone : |
| 19 | But 40%–60% of every character is one 's self and the point is that the fiction would be a truer picture of my spiritual life than my own life . |
| 20 | The point is that the monastic system was not just a spontaneous occurrence . |
| 21 | The point is that the set of products which are socially relevant to the group-optimality calculation may not coincide with the set which are actually controlled by the firm in question . |
| 22 | The point is that the fact of empire affects both white and black communities . |
| 23 | The point is that the second version contains superfluous and irrelevant information , though this would not necessarily be the case if we were explaining what we do in the morning to an ( English-speaking ! ) |
| 24 | The point is that the threat of take-overs reduces the long-term security of employees and managers . |
| 25 | The point is that the differences and similarities are not necessarily mutually exclusive ; rather , they both raise gender-specific issues . |
| 26 | The point is that the objectivity conditions for ontological claims are not provided , nor , strictly , can they be . |
| 27 | The point is that the whole idea of substance as an entity breaks down ; which is of course the opposite of what Spinoza originally intended . |
| 28 | The point is that the idea of criteria is itself in need of elucidation , and an attempt to provide such an elucidation presupposes a basic understanding of the concept whose explanation is being sought . |
| 29 | The point is that the concept of an experience can not be fully clarified without an analysis of the actual modes of experiencing from the experiencer 's own point of view . |
| 30 | I said , You see the point is that the temperature the temperature at the north pole is a lot lower than it is in th on the equator I said . |