Example sentences of "point is that " in BNC.
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| 31 | The first point is that both ministers and officials involved in the review stress the lack of drama , tantrum-throwing and brinkmanship . |
| 32 | But the bigger point is that pursuing wrong priorities discredits greenery as a whole — just when it needs friends to defend it from hard-pressed businessmen and rabid deregulators . |
| 33 | Of course , this can only be verified by a complete inventory , but the important point is that the sampling methods used , and the way in which the results were extrapolated to apply to the whole collection , are based on a sound mathematical theory which is widely used and tested in other fields , and therefore carried sufficient weight to satisfy the Museum and its auditors . |
| 34 | The point is that the traditional concepts of intention and recklessness do not , of themselves , appear to be sufficiently well focused to mark out those killings which are the most heinous . |
| 35 | The underlying point is that it is not every act of provocation which should be allowed to reduce murder to manslaughter , but only those serious enough to unbalance the behaviour of a person with reasonable self-control . |
| 36 | A second general point is that many offences of violence have consequences for the victim which extend well beyond any injury caused . |
| 37 | The first point is that it is generally recognized that ritual tends to increase , intensify and shift in focus at times of social crisis . |
| 38 | My point is that in a single-sex community tasks have to be shared . |
| 39 | ‘ The main point is that some of the advisory things have become law , ’ says the spokesman . |
| 40 | A minus point is that the oil-filter cap can only be reached with the covers off . |
| 41 | The interesting point is that the really quite moderate and bourgeois position of the DUP is often over looked , not just by its critics ( one would expect that ) , but also by its supporters . |
| 42 | The first point is that , of the five people generally named in any discussion of the generation gap theory , four are Free Presbyterians , which is a similar concentration to that found in the first generation of Paisley activists . |
| 43 | Our point is that not all liturgical development in this period was strictly monastic , yet monastic ideals strongly influenced cathedral life . |
| 44 | Another important point is that the less time you have in which to do something , the more it costs because you start to run into things like overtime and special delivery payments , rush jobs and so on . |
| 45 | It is not surprising either to find that English visitors were hostile ; the notable point is that their real venom was unleashed not in the period before 1560 , when England and Scotland were nourishing their long-standing enmity , but afterwards , when they were officially allies , and particularly once the unthinkable and shameful had happened , and Scotland had given England a king , in the person of James VI in 1603 . |
| 46 | The essential point is that if two beneficial mutations , A and B , occur in different individuals in the same population , sex and recombination can bring them together in a single descendant . |
| 47 | For the moment , the relevant point is that , in eukaryotes , evolution takes the form of a branching tree rather than a network of lineages that split and rejoin : once two lineages have split , they do not rejoin . |
| 48 | For our present purpose , however , the important point is that a hierarchical pattern is what we expect to see if the objects being classified have originated by a process of branching . |
| 49 | Of course , whether the Anura constitute a family , an order , or a class is an arbitrary matter : the point is that they do constitute a natural group . |
| 50 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 51 | The second point is that a small energy input into the thermostat can release a large quantity of energy from the boiler . |
| 52 | The important point is that , if energy is supplied , a homogeneous spatial field can become inhomogeneous . |
| 53 | The central point is that Descartes conducts his philosophising alone and immobile in his study , arguing as though that frozen quality characterised all language use . |
| 54 | The point is that I shall not borrow to pay for them — others can do that . |
| 55 | The point is that SRC 's customers are the individual businesses in Specialties and other parts of the ICI group , and they can take their work elsewhere . |
| 56 | No doubt I will request our librarian to get me some of the original references cited but my point is that surely Chemistry in Britain is written for the general interest and education of chemists and ought to be comprehensible to the reasonably trained chemist . |
| 57 | The point is that the trivial names and acronyms are easy to remember and immediately evoke fond memories . |
| 58 | My point is that before we try to improve the public image of chemists and chemistry , should n't we take steps to ensure that the public know which profession we are talking about ? |
| 59 | The critical point is that in expressive behaviours of all kinds , verbal , non-verbal , voluntary , involuntary , there is an aspect of the behaviour that remains hidden , only known or felt by the person experiencing the behaviour . |
| 60 | The important point is that it should be used at a time when for some reason pressure is to be taken off members of the class — putting them in what is virtually a ‘ spectator ’ role can give them time to recover from what had perhaps been inadequate non-projected work . |