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

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1 The essential point is that if two beneficial mutations , A and B , occur in different individuals in the same population , sex and recombination can bring them together in a single descendant .
2 While it might be interesting to compare Mrs. Simper 's and Sophronia 's reactions to lower servants better educated than themselves , the essential point is that a violation of the ordinary division of labour could easily result in a domestic servant losing his or her place .
3 The essential point is that a conception of justice fulfils its social role provided that citizens equally conscientious and sharing roughly the same beliefs find that , by affirming the framework of deliberation set up by it , they are normally led to a sufficient convergence of opinion .
4 The Minister ( Sir Edward Boyle ) announced that this would take place in 1970/1 and wrote a remarkable preface to the published text in which he stated that ‘ the essential point is that all children should have an equal opportunity of acquiring intelligence , and developing their talents and abilities to the full ’ .
5 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 .
6 ‘ It 's potentially a very tough , very violent martial art , but the essential point is that it can , and should , be very beautiful and very graceful , ’ he adds .
7 For Menninger , the essential point is that ‘ in work , as contrasted with purposeless destruction , the aggressive impulses are moulded and guided in a constructive direction by the influence of the creative ( erotic ) instinct ’ ( Menninger , 1942 ) .
8 The essential point is that there are no universal solutions .
9 Either explanation is reasonable , but the essential point is that both clearly point to poor control .
10 The essential point is that one has a painful feeling of shame , and is anxious to hide one 's nakedness , usually by means of locomotion , but is absolutely unable to do so .
11 The essential point is that the use of numerical data should be adapted to the need .
12 The essential point is that the introduction prepares for what is to come , and is a unified part of it .
13 Despite these caveats , the essential point is that the buying and selling of derivative assets is a process by which risk bearing is transferred between individuals .
14 The essential point is that the draftsman always has the choice .
15 But certainly we er as I said , the essential point is that we are looking , looking at the capability across the board and taking into account the strategic requirement as we see it in terms of the direct threat to the U K in particular , which is obviously dramatically declined as a result of the collapse of the Warsaw pact .
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