Example sentences of "[adj] [be] [prep] the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of the traditional monopolies applicable in the legal profession are under attack and some are on the point of disappearing . |
| 2 | ‘ This is beside the point . ’ |
| 3 | That commercial television then proved to be popular is beside the point . |
| 4 | Where , where we 're not okay is in the point that Jim has raised , the general point and that is , what do we mean , what do we d define as a project engineer ? |
| 5 | What would , what would that be at the point two ? |
| 6 | At the same time the council in England believed that the king 's familiares were exercising undue influence over him : the unity which Edward had been at such pains to build up in 1337 was on the point of fracturing . |
| 7 | I already owned two sheds , but one was on the point of collapse , and the other was far too small for the amount of rubbish it held . |
| 8 | I 'm not sure Hawick was right for her and I 'd have been sorry to lose her , but that 's beside the point . |
| 9 | True , it bankrupted the company , and you need a couple of sessions at the gym before you can park one , but that 's beside the point . |
| 10 | Oh , never mind — that 's beside the point . |
| 11 | ‘ But that 's beside the point . ’ |
| 12 | That 's beside the point . |
| 13 | Like Orcadai , he was more N'pani than Yek , and now he stared inscrutably at Alexei. ’ — But that 's beside the point . |
| 14 | But that 's beside the point . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's beside the point . |
| 16 | However , all that 's beside the point . |
| 17 | Anyway , that 's beside the point . |
| 18 | ‘ That 's beside the point , dear ; he got it through . ’ |
| 19 | But that 's beside the point . |
| 20 | ‘ However , that 's beside the point . |
| 21 | I was going to bingo and I said and I said to her well we 'll go and pick Sue 's mother up and we 'll pick you up and all and she went the Empire , I went the Corn Exchange but that 's beside the point . |
| 22 | Well that 's beside the point . |
| 23 | That 's beside the point . |
| 24 | Yeah but I filled it , I 've botched it up in a couple of places but that 's beside the point , it does n't matter . |
| 25 | and it was busy , but that 's beside the point |
| 26 | But that 's beside the point . |
| 27 | No , well Pat is gay anyway , everyone know is gay but that 's beside the point . |
| 28 | Plus the fact that one of my friends thought it was a really funny idea if she stuck half a in one of my drinks and I almost died so that 's beside the point . |
| 29 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 30 | An equal amount of injury might have happened at a football match but that was beside the point . |