Example sentences of "[noun sg] point be that " in BNC.

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1 Continuing with our high profile er lunches , there was another objective , objective , overall objective of raising the profile of the office and finally , within that heading our action point was that er we would look at partner representation on various various bodies , not only partner representation , senior staff representation on various bodies .
2 The theoretical reason for using Jamaican as a reference point is that , as I shall argue in Chapter 4 , the main Creole influence on " London Jamaican " ( henceforth LJ ) really is Jamaican ; the comparison is therefore the appropriate one to make .
3 This album 's minus point is that it 's only 40 minutes long ; its plus point is that none of its songs are even a millimetre below excellent .
4 A minus point is that the oil-filter cap can only be reached with the covers off .
5 This album 's minus point is that it 's only 40 minutes long ; its plus point is that none of its songs are even a millimetre below excellent .
6 One minus point is that the handle is not raised bey far above the heating plate , making knuckles warm .
7 Dworkin 's starting point is that the content of a particular law is almost invariably open to the interpretation of judges .
8 Our starting point is that an operator is simply something which , given a vector , is a means of associating another vector with it .
9 The starting point is that the literal meaning of the words of section 6(3) do not support Mr. Howell 's submissions .
10 In my judgment , there are indications that the provisions relating to administrative receivers generally apply both to companies formed and registered under the Companies Acts and to unregistered companies liable to be wound up under Part V. The starting point is that the legislative concept of administrative receiver , and the statutory scheme of the provisions relating to his qualifications , functions , powers and duties , all rest on a contractual base , namely , a receiver appointed by or on behalf of debenture holders under a debenture secured by a floating charge .
11 His starting point is that this structure will have the form of a grammar .
12 A starting point is that there is always a cash account .
13 A starting point is that there is always a cash account .
14 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 .
15 At Plymouth , for example , where in 1941 he was invited to prepare a redevelopment plan for the city , in cooperation with the City Engineer , H. Paton Watson , his starting point was that he should not be constrained by local authority boundaries : in his view Plymouth extended six miles and more beyond the city centre and should be planned on that basis .
16 The only certain starting point was that the opera would have a Swiss theme , in common with Cheltenham 's International Music Festival , of which the project was part.That aside , they made up the script as they went along .
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