Example sentences of "point [be] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essential point is that a conception of justice fulfils its social role provided that citizens equally conscientious and sharing roughly the same beliefs find that , by affirming the framework of deliberation set up by it , they are normally led to a sufficient convergence of opinion . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It is doubtful if the corridors of Whitehall and the British civil service will quite match this record , but the simple point is that a host of records of potential interest to the historian that would have manifested themselves on paper will no longer do so . |
| 4 | While it might be interesting to compare Mrs. Simper 's and Sophronia 's reactions to lower servants better educated than themselves , the essential point is that a violation of the ordinary division of labour could easily result in a domestic servant losing his or her place . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Our starting point is that an operator is simply something which , given a vector , is a means of associating another vector with it . |
| 7 | His point was that a war in peacetime would have to be fought against unemployment , as it persistently remained above one million in the 1920s , and rose towards three million during the severe cyclical depression between 1929 and 1932 . |