Example sentences of "[pos pn] point is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My point is that in a single-sex community tasks have to be shared . |
| 2 | No doubt I will request our librarian to get me some of the original references cited but my point is that surely Chemistry in Britain is written for the general interest and education of chemists and ought to be comprehensible to the reasonably trained chemist . |
| 3 | My point is that before we try to improve the public image of chemists and chemistry , should n't we take steps to ensure that the public know which profession we are talking about ? |
| 4 | In any case , my point is that it was during the course of this interview , when I raised the question of the difficulty of recruiting suitable staff in these times , that Mr Farraday , after a moment 's reflection , made his request of me ; that I do my best to draw up a staff plan — ‘ some sort of servants ' rota ’ as he put it — by which this house might be run on the present staff of four — that is to say , Mrs Clements , the two young girls , and myself . |
| 5 | My point is that the press has a powerful part to play in redressing the balance . |
| 6 | But my point is that whether it 's true or not does n't matter . |
| 7 | I will leave to others how far this solves the difficulty ; my point is that no comparable difficulty arises in evolutionary game theory . |
| 8 | My point is that I see nothing in the Gracious Speech to enable me to counter the opinions expressed by our European partners who are still proud to know us but bemused that we have a Britain which in their eyes is no longer as great as it was . |
| 9 | My point is that , in general , the courts are under an injunction not to give custodial sentences to offenders under 21 . |
| 10 | Just briefly , I have been correspondence right back erm it 's difficult to see why that land was designated for land except that it 's agricultural land and erm my point is that the gradient on a lot of the site , especially on the northern erm banks is one in five and one in seven and to build on that would erm well even said that the building would be imponderous so I mean i it just is n't a suitable site , apart from the link road , for , for housing either because the gradient there would , would be very erm difficult from a landscape point of view a there 's nothing they could do to improve the till you know the turn of the century and they are and through all the planning papers from nineteen eighty five it is said that that Hill ca n't be improved so I mean unless they do something erm dramatic , I ca n't see what they can do , I mean it just is n't a suitable site for development . |
| 11 | I suppose my point is that if things are to get better ( or should I say keep getting better ) then we ca n't really look to the likes of Mel to come back . |
| 12 | My point is that if a player wants to play for Leeds , and has no wish to leave , they should nt have to FOR FINANCIAL reasons . |
| 13 | My point is that the form that an animal 's subjective experience takes will be a property of the internal computer model . |
| 14 | Her point is that ‘ the discourse of the copy ’ existed also in high modernism , but it was repressed . |
| 15 | Their point is that these myths developed in the political context of inequality in the distribution of power and resources , in the economic context of capitalism with its market pressures , and , above all , in the social context of a science that is controlled by commercial connections . |
| 16 | His point is that there are also molecular changes occurring which are not selected , because they have little or no effect on function . |
| 17 | His point is that although ‘ rules of grammar ’ are arbitrary in the sense that it is a mistake to look for a justification of a language game ( 331 ) , they are not arbitrary in the sense that ‘ our language game only works , of course , when a certain agreement prevails ’ ( 430 ) . |
| 18 | An Intel Corp observer says the company is really competing against system makers IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc , and maybe MIPS Technologies Inc : his point is that Intel is bound to a policy of moving more and more of the system onto its chips until all the hardware vendor will be adding is a couple of leads ; he also says Intel is very conscious of the potentials of the computer and communications tie-up and is dreaming of a worldwide network data repository under its thumb ; strategic alliances came up and so did the name AT&T Co , and the words ‘ information utility ’ . |
| 19 | His point is that the elimination of these transformations also eliminates the Faulknerian quality of the passage , and that therefore Faulkner 's style is distinguished by a heavy use of these transformations , which , in general terms , happen to be rules which introduce and condense syntactic complexity . |
| 20 | His point is that there was simply an agreement to accept a lesser sum in satisfaction of the whole amount and so could not amount to accord and satisfaction . |
| 21 | His point is that he is in effect running the equivalent of a small assessment unit but he is not actually getting paid for running the equivalent of a small assessment unit . |
| 22 | Our point is that not all liturgical development in this period was strictly monastic , yet monastic ideals strongly influenced cathedral life . |
| 23 | Our point is that a popular movement such as the peace movement carries within itself a notion of a just society and that law can not be considered merely as a ‘ tool ’ isolated from broader political and social considerations . |
| 24 | Such evolution would imply that the constraints on optimization occur only on the trade-off curve itself , and not inside it , and so is hardly plausible : our point is that the optimality argument is independent of genetic details such as pleiotropy . |
| 25 | So , erm , your point is that erm you move upward from your body to a level of intellect and then at the level there 's still a further journey to go , up to no one , and that 's our true self . |