Example sentences of "point that have " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hamilton had the brilliance to see the simple point that had not been elaborated before ; namely that overall fitness is the sum of fitness owing to selfish behaviour plus fitness owing to altruistic behaviour to relatives . |
| 2 | He made the point that had the position been reversed he would not expect to be pestered after giving a straight answer . |
| 3 | This resolves the point that had to some extent been an open question before the Act . |
| 4 | It is necessary to make the point that had different criteria been applied when analysing this text , some of its merits , hitherto unremarked , would have been revealed . |
| 5 | Ockleton paused to consider a point that had apparently baffled him , then said : ‘ If Miss Mallender never referred to visiting me , Mr |
| 6 | President , I 've , er , had lots of advice from my colleagues as to how to respond to the comments of the shop stewards er , I can only respond and say thank you very much indeed for the kind things they 've said particularly , erm , specific point that 's been raised on the industry from my colleagues that are from the Midlands and East Coast the situation currently is that , er , we have decided to ballot for industrial action in E C C and the T & G have decided to ballot for industrial action in , I think its . |
| 7 | I 'd just like to pick up the point that 's been made twice that there 's no such thing as an affordable housing problem . |
| 8 | accept the point that 's been made , we 've got to remember that the commitments that are are contained in the band six to ten miles , are principally there to meet the general requirements arising in the districts |
| 9 | I just wanted to take up the point that 's been raised again , and it keeps popping its its little head up from time to time , this issue of building rates . |
| 10 | I will want to come back on the same point that 's just been made , but if before I get to that there are some other points that I think I should make in explanation of the lead we have given , if I may call it that , in putting forward the distribution of the Greater York total . |
| 11 | It 's not a matter of they 're not reconcilable , I think there has to be a strong point that 's made . |
| 12 | Yes , I think the point that 's made there is fair enough , er , the Russians indeed feel oppressed in the Baltic and , and probably in other Republics as well . |
| 13 | Now if that was totally inherent at the time , then I really fail how to see how it could have done eighty thousand miles , and I think that may be a point that 's put across at the same time . |
| 14 | There is an obvious demographic point that has to be made first . |
| 15 | This is a point that has been commonly overlooked in the past , even by geologists , since there is a general tendency to assume that the only rocks worth bothering about are ‘ hard ’ rocks , which can be hit with a hammer ! |
| 16 | I would like to point out that when your Alexander teacher talks about ‘ unreliable feelings ’ he is talking about sensory feelings and not emotions or intuition ( a point that has confused many people in the past ) . |
| 17 | One point that has to be made straight away , is that it is not a good idea to start buying the components for a project published some time ago unless you are certain that all the components are still available ( even up-to-the-minute designs can suffer from supply problems with components — see Everyday Readout in this issue ) . |
| 18 | The surprising point that has occurred with regard to my own business is that other supposed chartered accountants have been preparing fully audited accounts without ever setting foot in the premises that they are conducting the audit for . |
| 19 | A final point that has to be borne in mind is that in order to make generalizations based on the type of quantitative analysis pioneered by Labov , a large number of tokens must be analysed ( usually thousands ) ; however , it happens that some variables that are quite salient in the community occur relatively rarely , and so we can not make reliable quantitative statements about these covering the range of speaker variables , even though they may be involved in linguistic change and may be important for historical projections on to earlier English . |
| 20 | and ‘ beyond some point that has long been surpassed in crowded industrial societies , conditions of use tend to deteriorate as use becomes more widespread ’ ( pp. 2–3 ) . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend will know that there was a real-terms increase in the science and technology budget this year , a point that has been readily acknowledged by scientists up and down the country . |
| 22 | We know that the Labour party is committed to an increase in child benefit and pensions , covered by its eight new or increased taxes , a point that has featured in the debate . |
| 23 | My hon. Friend the Minister must pay attention to the point that has been made — that time limits must be set for , first , appointing an inspector and secondly , the production of the inspector 's report once the inquiry is complete , if not necessarily on the length of the inquiry . |
| 24 | I must apologise for returning somewhat dryly to the procedural point that has been raised during the debate . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend raises a point that has been raised many times before . |
| 26 | Victories in three primaries , including the battle of New York , were a turning point that have given the Arkansas governor an unassailable lead in delegates needed for the Democrats ' presidential nomination . |
| 27 | We have now to turn to a survey of the third area of significance : the main points that had a specific and almost immediate practical effect upon the life of the Church . |
| 28 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 29 | Then at last he said : ‘ Gentlemen — and ladies , pardon me — I have given much thought to these matters and I wish to say here in confidence to you , that while there remains between myself and many of those present differences of interpretation as to what is really occurring in Europe at this moment , despite this , as to the main points that have been raised in this house , I am convinced , gentlemen , convinced both of their justice and their practicality . ’ |
| 30 | Now seek the vendor and ask about any points that have arisen in your survey . |