Example sentences of "[art] point is [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point is here that he has mentioned in his press release a number of okay local people , and by doing this in this particular way he has greatly increased the possibility and probability of ending up with a piece in the local newspaper . |
| 2 | Of course this is not quite accurate language does not exist independently of speakers , and it is they who introduce innovations — but the point is well taken . |
| 3 | The point is well illustrated by the current literature on international relations . |
| 4 | The point is well taken but attention to the planning decisions of ‘ spatially independent ’ capitalist organizations does show the character of power relations in capitalist exploitation . |
| 5 | The point is well made in a verse like Isaiah 31:3 . |
| 6 | The point is well put by Macdonald , |
| 7 | The point is well made by Kolve , that what the Miller says does not , realistically , sound very much like an inebriated medieval churl . |
| 8 | The point is also that the raising of children is work . |
| 9 | The point is just that some basic concepts relating to the experience curve may still be valuable if used with intelligence and discretion . |
| 10 | The point is just whether the randomness is sufficient for the statistical description to be the most appropriate . |
| 11 | The point is best made by looking at a simple inanimate , but man-made , system , which in this respect resembles a living and not a physical one . |
| 12 | The point is best illustrated by reference to specific examples under the existing United Kingdom constitution . |
| 13 | The point is rather to stress the limits of state action . |
| 14 | The point is rather that , even though knowingly taking risks with other people 's lives is usually unjustifiable , taking a slight risk is less serious than intentionally causing death . |
| 15 | The point is rather that we now have a strong data base from which to operate , and that the technical means are now available which would reveal precisely what our signals do mean ; perhaps to show that there are monsters , perhaps to find , at least beyond reasonable doubt , that their existence is too unlikely to warrant further study . |
| 16 | This has nothing to do with turning diachrony into synchrony ; the point is rather that |
| 17 | The point is rather that the so-called independent check is a mere repetition of the procedure which it is supposed to be checking . |
| 18 | The point is rather academic for the Labour party . |
| 19 | The point is however that Olympia was not a classic nude or even a high-class courtisane , but as Clark notes , a ‘ fille publique ’ , ‘ a faubourienne ’ . |
| 20 | Relations between a still predominantly oral culture and this important and growing sector ‘ within' it are then especially complex , and the point is soon reached when there is a qualitative difference between the oral area , which all share but to which most are confined , and the literate area , which is of increasing cultural importance but is at once minor and dominant . |
| 21 | Otherwise ( the point is surely an obvious one ) he would have limited himself to verbal argument . |
| 22 | The point is surely that the properties of being good and being yellow are not complex properties as being a horse is , which is ( we may take him to be supposing ) a matter of having a whole lot of simpler properties , such as having a certain sort of head , a certain sort of tail , and so forth . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The point is simply that the potential benefits from regulation can be very large . |
| 25 | The point is simply that in all positions , other than the two attributive ones , the entity has already been identified before the adjective is brought into direct or indirect constructional contact with it . |
| 26 | For those in this happy state the point is practically made already . |
| 27 | At first sight this seems to defy common sense , but the point is easily made with reference to whales . |
| 28 | The point is adequately made if we restrict gene values to single figures , that is if we allow them to range from -9 to +9 . |
| 29 | In this case it is wrong to speak of the wording of the trust as being free ; the point is instead that it is possible to construe a trust in order to validate a disposition , for their existence or non-existence is not attested purely by the use or non-use of certain forms . |
| 30 | The point is frequently made that if bus fares were set at a reasonable level , buses would be used more often and public safety would be greater . |