Example sentences of "the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can you see the point I am trying to make ? |
| 2 | Gertrude Stein later wrote a book on Picasso , in which she put the point like this : |
| 3 | A demonstration of the point is to compare Civilisation by Kenneth Clark in its forms as television and book . |
| 4 | The virtue of artists ' writings for the reader of criticism is that it can often serve as a touchstone for judging the worth of mediators , particularly those presenting views of what the artist intended ; what the artist said may be more to the point . |
| 5 | Writing on Auguste Rodin can make the point . |
| 6 | The point of making these comparisons is that artistic practices affect how a critic should describe a landscape . |
| 7 | He reverts to the point with the analyst : ‘ Supposing I did n't have what a child objectively should be entitled to … ’ . |
| 8 | From the point of view of the people of the Gorbals in the Thirties , fox-hunting and psychoanalysis would have been practically indistinguishable concerns of the rich in the Sassenach South , of the ‘ high heid yins ’ of the world — an expression of the poor in Scotland then , which Ralph Glasser uses . |
| 9 | In that respect , Kundera could have fooled at least one of his readers ; but I do see that it belongs to the point of it all that the uncommon Jaromil should be thought humanly representative . |
| 10 | Shortly after the point at which the recital ends , sand was to cover some more helicopters — those sent by President Carter to liberate the American hostages seized in Teheran , where Kapuscinski catches a glimpse not of them but of their place of confinement . |
| 11 | Here the confusions or uncertainties are the point of the passage : it does n't matter that the particulars of the caption are missing since this sort of thing was always happening . |
| 12 | ‘ Beyond this ’ , however , leaves indefinite the point at which , or frequency with which , the use of biography deserves to be called by that name . |
| 13 | The desire can be surmised , without recourse to hindsight , in some of what he wrote , but is far from being the point of what he wrote . |
| 14 | The point of preparation is to be well tuned and at the same time flexible to new interpretations and ideas . |
| 15 | The point is that they are all vital young men with love on their minds , full of colourful words to express their feelings , and all are within the range of the eighteen to twenty-five year old student actor . |
| 16 | Hickey ( 1984 ) and Wright ( 1973 ) grasp the point that both fundamentalism and Calvinism have monopoly tendencies in the public sphere . |
| 17 | From the point of view of the issue of law , there can be no doubt as to the influence both of the constitution of 1937 in the period following its enactment and of the influence of Roman catholic teaching on legislation prior to that date . |
| 18 | But the church 's clerics still took offence , particularly at the point that local people should be encouraged to take an interest in the schools by having some financial responsibility for them through local government . |
| 19 | That is the point of the glass , he wrote . |
| 20 | That is perhaps the point of the big glass , wrote Harsnet . |
| 21 | I did n't see the point , I said . |
| 22 | It was n't for you to see the point , he said . |
| 23 | That 's not the point , he said . |
| 24 | But the point is there can never be any more . |
| 25 | The point about the big glass , he wrote , is that there is no right way up and so there is no upside down . |
| 26 | The point is , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that he had spent his life seeking her out , yet left his feet to do the dirty work . |
| 27 | The point is , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that Actaeon is not free to narrate what he has seen , but Ovid is . |
| 28 | The point of view in Las Meninas . |
| 29 | What 's the point of having a phone if you never answer ? he said . |
| 30 | What 's the point of having a phone if you never answer it ? he asked me . |