Example sentences of "[art] point is " in BNC.
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| 1 | A demonstration of the point is to compare Civilisation by Kenneth Clark in its forms as television and book . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But the point is there can never be any more . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The point is , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that Actaeon is not free to narrate what he has seen , but Ovid is . |
| 6 | The point is simply that the account of mental processes which folk psychology provides , constitutes an explanation at an appropriate level of abstraction for the purposes of explaining behaviour scientifically . |
| 7 | Finding the point is not easy , and the gully walls are vertical elsewhere , so if in doubt continue up and back to the source of the gullies . |
| 8 | Still more to the point is another essay in that volume , ‘ Mr Eliot s Solid Merit ’ ( originally in the New English Weekly for 12 July 1934 ) . |
| 9 | For present purposes the point is that such passages , which because of the name ‘ Anchises ’ may seem Virgilian , are nothing of the kind . |
| 10 | This is very astute criticism of Yeats : but more to the point is that Pound here confesses self-doubts such as he would have concealed from anyone he did not trust absolutely . |
| 11 | Hughie Smith , president of the National Gypsy Council , a body set up to fight for the rights of gypsies , said : ‘ The point is that York does have hundreds of acres of land . |
| 12 | The point is that past deficits do not matter to serious players of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings game . |
| 13 | The point is that , unless you have such focuses for new building , you are left with only two alternatives : to force all new building back on to those urban wastelands ; or else to let new housing grow , like fat around a middle-aged belly , on the outskirts of existing villages and country towns . |
| 14 | The point is that Knighton , for all the ludicrous exhibitionism with which he announced himself to the Stretford End , decided to withdraw , despite evidence that he could indeed finance the original deal . |
| 15 | The point is not , as sometimes supposed , that the sovereign had been made divisible . |
| 16 | The point is that by its nature the British parliamentary monarchy exists only in Britain . |
| 17 | The point is that you muddle her , you muddle her up . |
| 18 | The point is that for Callinicos , Nietzschean thought is an instance of Romantic anti-capitalism : that form of refusal of the implications of capitalist modernity which has been present virtually since the birth of that condition , described by Michael Lowy as ‘ opposition to capitalism in the name of pre-capitalist values ’ ( cited p. 67 ) . |
| 19 | The point is I think that the argument from here can go two ways . |
| 20 | Pushkin eating cherries before a duel ; Lenin working day in day out on Iskra ; one sentence or a newspaper ( the point is of course , not one without the other ) ; Benjamin on the requirement to denature your work ‘ like ethyl alcohol ’ lest it be of use to the other side . |
| 21 | The point is rather to stress the limits of state action . |
| 22 | The point is he did n't . |
| 23 | With three managers sacked in three days this week the point is a valid one . |
| 24 | The point is that crops and weeds are in a sense kindred spirits , with several traits in common . |
| 25 | But the point is that it was permanently visible . |
| 26 | The point is that Brook and his co-adaptors ( Jean-Claude Carriere and Marie-Helene Estienne ) have made the story available to a mass-audience . |
| 27 | The point is , that for the first time in decades , the environmentalists have a powerful voice — and a Government which claims to listen . |
| 28 | The point is that it has taken players like Wallace and Hardenberger to contradict the cliches about the limitations of the instrument and to prove how flexible it really is . |
| 29 | The point is self-subversion , overthrowing the power structure in your own head . |
| 30 | The point is that two guards were sacrificed by the authorities in order to achieve this control situation . |