Example sentences of "point [adv] [is] not " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point here is not to exonerate the violent behaviour of certain Liverpool supporters but rather the reverse , i.e. to emphasize the potentially fatal risks which are being run each week in stadia where large and rowdy confrontations of young spectators take place . |
| 2 | The point here is not merely that full employment creates a scarcity of labour and so automatically puts up its price , not such that the unions negotiating with already willing and , indeed , anxious buyers would remain relatively passive as buyers bid against one another . |
| 3 | Our pragmatic starting point here is not whether ‘ race ’ exists . |
| 4 | The point then is not that the subjective impression is infallible but that without it no choice of ends can arise , very much as no choice of means can arise without highly fallible generalizations about causal connexions . |
| 5 | The point then is not that reforms will necessarily fail in their objective of furthering the public good ( though this is normally supposed ) , but that interference in company affairs for that purpose is morally impermissible . |