Example sentences of "point was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The essential point was that the medieval Church was a ‘ sex-negative ’ institution — sex was a bad thing because it interfered with the search for spiritual perfection . |
| 2 | The point was that it basically has to come from yourself and if you feel funny about yourself , then maybe you should go to the root of what 's making you feel funny as opposed to just taking downers and then taking uppers . |
| 3 | The point was that they should be managers who took responsibility for securing the best service to the patient and could be held to account if there was failure . |
| 4 | His main point was that the marked differences in income and wealth persisted between the social classes throughout the inter-war years had provoked little animus and a remarkably timid response from the working class . |
| 5 | The implicit basis of child care practice up to that point was that no fundamental conflicts of interest between parents and children , or between families and the state , were at stake in such interventions . |
| 6 | Explain our lives there — as if they needed explaining , and the whole point was that when you walked in the door of the Bar you knew you did n't have to explain anything to anyone who was there , not anyone . |
| 7 | The key point was that this population of captive bats was a mixture of two separate groups , taken from caves many miles apart . |
| 8 | But the most important point was that the emphasis in the syllabus was on the skills relating to the communication of information rather than retrieval from information sources . |
| 9 | My main point was that the Alvey Committee was proposing to focus R & D resources on a particular type of system based on their guess that intelligent knowledge-based systems were the system of the future . |
| 10 | Bukharin 's point was that the same methods can not be used to carry through these two quite distinct tasks . |
| 11 | The point was that the plaintiffs ' interest in Jarrad exceeded their interest in Jesner , and they contended that the object of Jarrad had been to provide money for the family and not to have its assets syphoned off to prop up Jesner . |
| 12 | The second crucial point was that Tanzania should not have television until it was really ready to make full use of it . |
| 13 | But sightings of the young lady continued and the curious point was that people used to say that in the first compartment next to the tender there would often be the strong scent of roses . |
| 14 | The whole point was that the front was where they went forward from . |
| 15 | The point was that Jenkins was a nonconformist , a rebel even ; an ‘ unqualified ’ coach who would disdain the Welsh Rugby Union coaching certificate , which to others is a glittering prize , as a scrap of paper . |
| 16 | Crusoe 's fabled isle contained all he needed to sustain life — given , that is , that he had rescued so much of use from the wreck , not forgetting a Bible ; and Defoe 's most compelling point was that the island is a self-sufficient place to anyone who can bring courage to the task of living in it , along with an inherited faith and a few tools . |
| 17 | Steele 's starting point was that slaves as much as all other men were subject to the law of human behaviour which said that conduct could be modified through the deployment of rewards and punishments ; the point of his experiment was to offer rewards to his slaves for defined tasks when in the past they had primarily experienced punishment . |
| 18 | The point was that both industries were experiencing particular problems in several countries : an acute coal shortage and an oversupply of steel . |
| 19 | The point was that France was protesting not so much about its inability to get its way on agricultural policy nor about the latter 's incorporation into a package , but more about the political or supranational elements of the package . |
| 20 | The point was that managers needed to learn what their audiences wanted but the other value of this familiarity was that any vague and general grumblings could be headed off before they became public . |
| 21 | The important point was that there seemed to be no way of determinately reversing this higher-to-lower translation unless the target high-level language was already known . |
| 22 | His point was that a war in peacetime would have to be fought against unemployment , as it persistently remained above one million in the 1920s , and rose towards three million during the severe cyclical depression between 1929 and 1932 . |
| 23 | The point was that the journalist 's investigative purpose was sufficiently served by the declaration , and that he did not need to know ( and had no sufficient interest in knowing ) the identities of the justices who had heard the particular case . |
| 24 | But his main point was that the English did not settle in Gascony : ‘ no colonial dependency of England ’ , he concluded , ‘ has ever offered a similar parallel , nor , it may safely be said , ever will . |
| 25 | An advantage of the first point was that it allowed Galileo to say that the sacred scribes had intentionally refrained from imparting complex scientific knowledge , despite having it at their disposal . |
| 26 | The second point was that the lack of accountability in schemes under the Making Belfast Work programme was an important reason to be concerned about Making Belfast Work . |
| 27 | More to the point was that it was some compensation for the lower salary . |
| 28 | And I was in a ca , er school over the summer holidays and er , we were looking at the design and technology and the point was that they got ta design and make some components , and realise I 'm talking about , you know , six , seven , eight year old , mixed girls and boys theirselves , and it was ra rather heart-warming to see where the way these youngsters react . |
| 29 | Hacker 's point was that women may be in a numerical majority , but they are in a cultural minority . |
| 30 | Appellate counsel 's point was that P was anxious to make it clear that the major part of the blame for the offences fell on others , and he might not have appreciated that the statement could be used against him ; it was thus unfair . |