Example sentences of "the [adj] point [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are talking about a spectacular slide in support for Conservatism in Scotland , which has taken the Tories from the high point of being the majority party in Scotland in the mid-1950s to the point today when they are on the edge of extinction as a serious and significant force in Scotland . |
| 2 | The second point to be remembered is that introducing a quotation into your essay needs to be done with care . |
| 3 | The second point to be taken into consideration is a quite surprisingly coherent and consistent story that links an intake of mostly green and yellow vegetables with a much lower risk of several forms of cancer . |
| 4 | In the previous section we mentioned that the programmer using fixed-point binary format could consider the binary point to be at an appropriate position in the word for each item of data . |
| 5 | On the other hand Marshall ( 1973 ) considers the crucial point to be that … the phonological correlations in terms of which speech is perceived and the temporal segments of the acoustic wave which examplify phonological sequences is not one to one and thus some decoding mechanism , unique to the left hemisphere , is required to derive the one from the other . |
| 6 | ‘ It will always be a matter of discretion whether to allow a point in no way connected with the certified point to be argued in the appeal . |
| 7 | Not only does the text tend to be repetitious but each item of gear if prefaced by an otherwise blank page informing us of the Key Point to be gleaned in that section , pearls of wisdom such as : ‘ A file is useful for sharpening the edges of your … hooks . |
| 8 | Well that 's the great point of being honest , that 's a great point , |
| 9 | ( for the moment , the important point to be gained from these results is that the maintenance of rhythms , in the absence of external information about time , confirms the presence of an internal body clock . |
| 10 | The fundamental point to be grasped is that the inhabitants of a curved space can determine its curvature from intrinsic measurements , i.e. from measurements confined to the space itself . |
| 11 | The first point to be made echoes a remark in the opening paragraph of this chapter ; namely that effective creative production and an ongoing state of serious mental illness seem quite incompatible . |
| 12 | The first point to be made about recent rural population change is that the broad spatial processes of the 1970s and early 1980s can be traced back into not only the 1960s , but even the 1950s ( Compton , 1983 ) . |
| 13 | The first point to be made in response to this is that current Soviet initiatives are clearly designed to foster a positive attitude towards the USSR as a country which has a viable socio-economic system and offers valuable commercial opportunities , rather than trying to incite the masses to Soviet-style revolution . |
| 14 | The first point to be noticed here is the effect of the pedal . |
| 15 | The first point to be noted is that the Court may make the award on the application of the injured person . |
| 16 | The first point to be made is that to is not , strictly speaking , part of the infinitive : the latter is a verb , whereas to is a dematerialized preposition whose use is called for in certain contexts because of the meaning it expresses . |
| 17 | So the only point of being in the street is to come and go , which is precisely all that people do . |
| 18 | not seeing the only point of being there |
| 19 | At every stage of the arms race the only point in being tall was to be relatively taller than neighbouring trees . |
| 20 | That the , the other point to be made about the pessimistic and optimistic theories is , they , because they 're extremely elusive , they can easily suggest the idea of utopias , and you get two different sorts of utopias . |
| 21 | The final point to be made is that in Re G ( a minor ) 1988 ( A11 FR p. 7(15) the House of Lords upheld the argument that adoption orders can be made with access but that these should only be made in exceptional circumstances although a distinction may be drawn between the position of birth parents and other relatives . |
| 22 | The final point to be made is that the local researcher should trust his instinct , and if something ‘ feels ’ wrong it may well actually be wrong , and with diligence can be so proved . |
| 23 | The final point to be made is that the whole reading experience takes place within a particular cultural setting , and this will affect reception . |
| 24 | The main point to be taken , however , is that by then , even if not yet dramatic , the growth of the economy was strong enough for per capita tax yield to rise with the growing population . |
| 25 | Answer guide : Limitation of owner 's liability is the main point to be made here . |
| 26 | ‘ A lover is illicit — the whole point of being married , it seems to me , is that everything is above board and clean ’ |
| 27 | A lover is illicit — the whole point of being married , it seems to me , is that everything is above board and clean . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Or is that the whole point of being only ‘ temporary ’ ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ The whole point of being a Minister is you can get things done in Whitehall . |
| 30 | The preliminary point to be decided by the judge was : when did the local authority 's cause of action accrue ? |