Example sentences of "an [adj] point [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've got an interesting point that I relate about this job that when I went to see them , about starting this job , they said , Well , they never told me before I got in , they said er , We 've er we 've got no money so we ca n't pay you a very good wage , but er we 'll start you off with five pound a week , that 's all we can afford , well I was earning more than that , during the War , nineteen forty two . |
| 2 | My Lords for reasons that have already been explained to Your Lordships and which I will not pursue yet for , er it seems that everybody 's agreed that it is important that the erm local authority representatives should be in the majority and I have to admit that my amendments do not go that far because I was concentrating on getting the magistrates back where they ought to be , er but er that is one thing , the other is that it er was an interesting point that er the Noble Lord , Lord of Greenwich raised , that my Noble Friend Lord Whitelaw er at columns four eighty and four eight one er questioned whether it was indeed appropriate that er the Home Secretary should make these appointments . |
| 3 | Er , and I think that 's an interesting point that , where yo where , when you read the story and you think really what prevented them marrying happily then , was Bertha but it was n't it was their attitudes to each other . |
| 4 | That 's an interesting point that , any square root , any square root you always get two answers for square roots yeah , it 's always plus thing and minus thing , in complex numbers , when you get complex numbers there are always what we call complex conjugators , if you drew them on them , on them diagram , right , if you drew them on the diagram , what 'll you get , plus five minus three I , plus five , minus three I , and then and then we get minus five , plus three I , You get plus and minus there . |
| 5 | Well , that 's quite an interesting point because there are enough , the only trouble at the moment is not enough people taking the necessary A levels to go into these places . |
| 6 | West Ham hit back with a memorable goal from Robson , and Alvin Martin came close to snatching an undeserved point when he headed against a post three minutes from time . |
| 7 | The reference to " or " such other risks should be amended to " and in addition to the foregoing " in order to make it clear that the landlord is not given the choice which of the stated risks it may choose to insure against — perhaps an obvious point but one worth making . |
| 8 | Bombing sorties required exceptional skill and technical accuracy on the part of the Lincoln aircrews , particularly the navigation plotters and bomb aimers as most bombing missions required ordnance to be dropped on an exact point as opposed to the more conventional method of ‘ carpet ’ bombing large areas . |
| 9 | This is an important point but , as with Burton 's ‘ world society ’ , there is an essential vagueness about the central concept , transnational relations . |
| 10 | However , it did draw attention to an important point that seemed to have eluded positivist correctionalism : crime does not have a blanket , objective status that enables us automatically to be against it regardless of what ‘ it ’ is . |
| 11 | It is quite possible clearly that that number could be reduced , during the consultation process on the on the local plan , I think that 's an important point because of the issue of windfall that was mentioned by Mr Davis , and was raised yesterday , reference to historic trends in the city of York do show that erm we have exceeded structure plan targets by substantial amounts , I think the figure is is forty percent or or more , er the County Council could confirm that , slightly difficult calculation to do because I 'm sure you 'll be aware that to our eternal shame , the City Council has not to date adopted a formal local plan , with reference erm to your question on day one er as to whether or not we might calculate contribution of windfalls in the past , we have looked at the nineteen eighty seven residential land availability er study , which was agreed with the house builders , adjacent districts , and of course the County , and in the five year period of that study , by comparison with the sites that we agreed in the study , an additional four hundred and thirty dwellings came forward and were completed on sites that had not been identified in the study , now I 'd I would say very clearly that that level of windfalls erm would not continue in the future and it could not be a reliable basis for erm looking at windfall contributions in the city in the future , clearly the supply of development land in the city is a is a finite resource , er given given the constraints that are current holding , and although some additional windfalls to the two hundred I 'd suggested in my H One may come forward , on the other hand I suspect some of the sites suggested in the draft local plan could fall out of the equation . |
| 12 | The hon. Gentleman seemed to miss an important point when he said that head teachers were worried . |
| 13 | The hon. Member for Gordon ( Mr. Bruce ) made an important point when he referred to the need for health and safety to be designed in from the beginning . |
| 14 | This is an important point and one now increasingly difficult to see . |
| 15 | So that 's an important point and one which is not in Freud 's book although I 'd like to think it would have been , had he written it much later on when , when group erm therapy had become very fashionable . |
| 16 | Edward Thomas may not have known that he was also making an ecological point when he pinned down so precisely the atmosphere and feel of these places : |
| 17 | Plainly a lot to ask of anyone — far more than a momentary invasion of privacy , which can be bad enough — and it is an argumentative point that paradoxically makes self-sufficiency sound humble rather than arrogant . |