Example sentences of "point is that the " in BNC.

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31 The other point is that the guitar is left-handed and therefore is wired to work counter-clockwise .
32 In any case , the essential point is that the government 's running costs greatly exceed its income , if you exclude the money gained from selling fishing licences .
33 An interesting point is that the tendency to fracture by the spreading of cracks is relatively little affected by temperature whereas the viscosity or shearing stress is very dependent upon temperature .
34 The interesting point is that the Greeks were certainly able to see Merope with the naked eye , whereas today this is virtually impossible .
35 ‘ The whole point is that the Government wants to give elderly people the opportunity to choose , ’ he said .
36 A third point is that the pro file indicates the child 's ability to control aspects of the emerging adult grammatical system and therefore makes the assumption that , for children , language learning is about the acquisition of that adult system .
37 A plus point is that the National Trust for Scotland own the 15,000 acres of Kintail so there are no access complications or restrictions .
38 Far and away the most important point is that the museums be allowed to keep the revenues that they generate .
39 But the central and critical point is that the sexual gavotte tended to go with the theatre like pinstripes and a bowler ( then ) went with the City .
40 The critical point is that the four stages are progressive : educators move along from one to the other .
41 The basic point is that the language of conscious states has its primary ground in the interaction of humans , and of other beings that behave like them , and the question of the inferential access to inner worlds of ‘ subjective feelings ’ is not raised .
42 This is strong stuff , true only in a minority of instances , but Hare 's point is that the potential for stupidity and even tragedy is always present when people mislead themselves and others into thinking that if they want something strongly enough then they are entitled to it .
43 Dworkin 's starting point is that the content of a particular law is almost invariably open to the interpretation of judges .
44 A second point is that the method of testing choices draws attention to the relative nature of a measured preference .
45 The point is that the psychophysical approach forces you to develop a model of how the system , in this instance the mechanisms of colour discrimination , might work and it is this model that is used to guide the direct physiological measurements .
46 The point is that the Council took decisions that appeared revolutionary enough in the context of Catholic life as it had hitherto been , but that , only a few years later , seemed instead as rather cautious half-measures requiring very considerable extension .
47 Such evolution would imply that the constraints on optimization occur only on the trade-off curve itself , and not inside it , and so is hardly plausible : our point is that the optimality argument is independent of genetic details such as pleiotropy .
48 The third major point is that the reporting of the trials marks out the boundaries of ‘ acceptable ’ behaviour not only by gender , but also by class , race and age .
49 A final point is that the explanatory import of the reporting is such as to back trivial and conservative ‘ solutions ’ .
50 This last description is often misunderstood : the point is that the economic is never a simple causal function that operates alone :
51 The first point is that the operation is not of overall benefit to the patient — for example , the risk of death during the operation outweighs the likely benefit of the operation for the patient .
52 One minus point is that the handle is not raised bey far above the heating plate , making knuckles warm .
53 But 40%–60% of every character is one 's self and the point is that the fiction would be a truer picture of my spiritual life than my own life .
54 The point is that the monastic system was not just a spontaneous occurrence .
55 In that case so can you or I. The next point is that the special rennet that professional cheese-making demands is available only in bulk , and therefore — since only a teaspoonful or so per half-gallon of milk is required — of little use for making cheese at home .
56 The second point is that the potential of visits to project schools could be realised in a number of ways .
57 The first major point is that the text is basically in two parts : sentences 1–6 and sentences 7–15 .
58 The crucial point is that the non-time-related organisation requires a conceptual grasp of the content and a level of linguistic ability which allows the writer to realise the concepts successfully in the text .
59 His point is that the elimination of these transformations also eliminates the Faulknerian quality of the passage , and that therefore Faulkner 's style is distinguished by a heavy use of these transformations , which , in general terms , happen to be rules which introduce and condense syntactic complexity .
60 The essential point is that the use of numerical data should be adapted to the need .
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