Example sentences of "point [is] that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is that the law demands the right to define the permissible exceptions . |
| 2 | What he feels is an even more important point is that the prerequisites for degradability are also excluded , if air and water are excluded . |
| 3 | The first major point is that the text is basically in two parts : sentences 1–6 and sentences 7–15 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Dworkin 's starting point is that the content of a particular law is almost invariably open to the interpretation of judges . |
| 6 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |
| 7 | The second point is that the A C C are , are , I think , the second point is that there was a deputation to the Minister yesterday , so if , in a sense it 's a little late unless it was picked up by Mr yesterday , it may be a little late to do something for this year , er , I mean obviously next year is I think going to be the er , important issue , and the A C C has already circulated all Shire counties er , it 's picked up that this has happened to the majority of counties , although again the south east er , has escaped from that , and it 's asking for the sort of figures we 're debating this morning . |
| 8 | I mean you can see , it 's self evident as you travel to Strensall that that development has been highly successful and s and the s the final seventh point is that the A sixty four north east corridor can be well served by the public transport to achieve the close relationship between the workplace and home , as national policy now seeks . |
| 9 | But our main point is that the problems that research is designed to solve , throw light upon or shape up , do not stand alone but are part of a wider context . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Such evolution would imply that the constraints on optimization occur only on the trade-off curve itself , and not inside it , and so is hardly plausible : our point is that the optimality argument is independent of genetic details such as pleiotropy . |
| 12 | His general point is that the debt burden debate is resolved when each of its aspects is placed in its appropriate ‘ cost ’ category . |
| 13 | The point is that the objectivity conditions for ontological claims are not provided , nor , strictly , can they be . |
| 14 | The point is that the threat of take-overs reduces the long-term security of employees and managers . |
| 15 | His point is that the elimination of these transformations also eliminates the Faulknerian quality of the passage , and that therefore Faulkner 's style is distinguished by a heavy use of these transformations , which , in general terms , happen to be rules which introduce and condense syntactic complexity . |
| 16 | Of course , this can only be verified by a complete inventory , but the important point is that the sampling methods used , and the way in which the results were extrapolated to apply to the whole collection , are based on a sound mathematical theory which is widely used and tested in other fields , and therefore carried sufficient weight to satisfy the Museum and its auditors . |
| 17 | But the point is that the scale constitutes an " operational measure " for the theoretical concept of alienation . |
| 18 | Later in this interlude he meets Saul , who tells him it 's irrelevant whether he lived or died : the point is that the myth continues . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | ‘ The whole point is that the Government wants to give elderly people the opportunity to choose , ’ he said . |
| 22 | The important point is that the animal learns an association between its behaviour ( pecking ) and a consequence of the behaviour ( being fed ) , and modifies its behaviour appropriately . |
| 23 | The interesting point is that the Greeks were certainly able to see Merope with the naked eye , whereas today this is virtually impossible . |
| 24 | A final significant point is that the Schuman Plan did not require British membership in order to succeed and could proceed whether she joined or not . |
| 25 | The worrying point is that the England squad had never been so well prepared generally , but were specifically ill-prepared to counter the decisive factor — spin . |
| 26 | The other point is that the guitar is left-handed and therefore is wired to work counter-clockwise . |
| 27 | But the point is that the degree of autonomy is not static , determined a priori , but rather is negotiated within and outside the state . |
| 28 | My point is that the press has a powerful part to play in redressing the balance . |
| 29 | The first point is that the operation is not of overall benefit to the patient — for example , the risk of death during the operation outweighs the likely benefit of the operation for the patient . |
| 30 | The second general point is that the discussion on Greece and Rome shows that Engels thought that the general scheme of social causation developed by Marx for capitalism applied to pre-capitalist formations , so long as these were past the gens stages . |