Example sentences of "point [is] not [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This latter point is not easily achieved , especially when questionnaires are used with small numbers . |
| 2 | As Terry Dennett says , the point is not just to be visible as a human being but t make the process visible . |
| 3 | The gallery faces west but , owing to the conversion , this point is not particularly relevant . |
| 4 | The point is not simply that we can identify status from speech if we wish to , such as with the clever elaborations developed on radio ; rather , that it is difficult to conceive of an utterance in English in which this is not the case . |
| 5 | The point is not simply to abandon this type of teaching but to acknowledge and analyse its limitations in the light of a more complex understanding of the nature of racism and to develop forms of educational engagement more likely to open up racist subjectivities and common sense to alternative discourses . |
| 6 | The point is not merely that decisions about the day to day operation of the business or even long-term strategy have been taken out of the shareholders ' hands — this is the intended , central advantage of the corporate form — but that the shareholders are no longer able to shape the purpose for which the business is run , that is , they are unable to oblige management to maximise profits . |
| 7 | The point is not only that we do as a matter of fact accept " the same meaning " and " a different meaning " as intelligible concepts , but that any attempt to define the criteria of interchangeability of expressions with regard to their meaning presupposes their intelligibility . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , for a number of writers the essential point is not so much that these ideas on unemployment and social welfare were new , as that a broad political consensus developed around them which achieved its apotheosis in the triumph of Keynesianism in 1947 [ Booth , 1983 ; 1984 ] . |
| 9 | The second point is not so negative . |
| 10 | The critical point is not so much the adequacy of the safety plans as the perceptions and beliefs that people hold about them ’ . |
| 11 | However , for the purposes of the current research the important point is not necessarily whether RHT is correct but whether one of the main propositions underlying it is correct . |
| 12 | I think one of the main points is not so much the way it 's taught but who teaches it . |
| 13 | In view of this maybe 11 games unbeaten is a good run ( where as 24/33 points is not so good ) . |