Example sentences of "point is [conj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 However , one thing worth mentioning at this point is that the larger parts are not always a guarantee of an agent 's interest — quite often big roles will attract attention , but a student who has been very well cast in a smaller role may hit the mark just as effectively .
3 Perhaps the most important point is that , regardless of who may be at the launch point , the pilot alone bears the responsibility for accepting or rejecting the launch in the light of the situation as he sees it from the cockpit .
4 The second point is that many people lean forwards as they slap down the opponent 's punch and so you need to remember that there are two fists to worry about here , not one !
5 The third point is that the opponent 's fist only needs a slight deflection so you should n't need to make your action too pronounced .
6 The second point is that you may be asked to take a drug test at any squad session .
7 The second and more important point is that the general argument against behaviouristic theories does take in functionalism and is not merely directed against traditional behaviourism : it works against any theory that analyses one 's conception of the world simply in terms of the way one functions — that is , behaves — in the world .
8 Another point is that it would make most bit image files far longer than necessary .
9 A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom .
10 For present purposes the point is that such passages , which because of the name ‘ Anchises ’ may seem Virgilian , are nothing of the kind .
11 ‘ The other point is that once you have established a good system of discipline , you do n't have to smack very often .
12 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 .
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 central point is that he and his advisers recognise that this is now the main task .
16 The point is that by its nature the British parliamentary monarchy exists only in Britain .
17 The crucial point is that having a great sound is one thing , but being a good subject for an article may be something else entirely .
18 The ironical and fundamental point is that during these post-war years , when international demand for tropical commodities for the first time since 1921 really justified vast investments in the Colonies ; when the Colonies had a huge back-log of demand for essential equipment ; when at last the British government was equipped with power to give or lend considerable sums to top up what the Colonies could afford to invest from their own accumulating surplus ; and when .
19 The point is that you muddle her , you muddle her up .
20 The second general point is that the discussion on Greece and Rome shows that Engels thought that the general scheme of social causation developed by Marx for capitalism applied to pre-capitalist formations , so long as these were past the gens stages .
21 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 ) .
22 The important point is that if one ultradian peak is missed then the baby waits until the next peak .
23 The point is that crops and weeds are in a sense kindred spirits , with several traits in common .
24 But the point is that it was permanently visible .
25 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 .
26 The key point is that the old , regulated financial systems stopped people from borrowing as much as they wanted at a given level of interest rates .
27 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 .
28 The point is that two guards were sacrificed by the authorities in order to achieve this control situation .
29 The main point is that Iraq should withdraw immediately and completely from Kuwait ( in line with UN Security Council Resolution 660 , passed on the day Iraq invaded Kuwait ) .
30 The bigger point is that nothing in Poland is static any longer .
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