Example sentences of "point [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hickey ( 1984 ) and Wright ( 1973 ) grasp the point that both fundamentalism and Calvinism have monopoly tendencies in the public sphere . |
| 2 | But the church 's clerics still took offence , particularly at the point that local people should be encouraged to take an interest in the schools by having some financial responsibility for them through local government . |
| 3 | It touched Lorca to the point that he reduced his poetry to a secondary status , concentrating on theatrical communication as a better means of getting his message over . |
| 4 | However , this is a book about the philosophy of mind rather than experimental psychology , and the main point that I want to make is rather more philosophical than psychological . |
| 5 | There is an equally important additional point that I want to make . |
| 6 | To assert this is merely to reiterate a point that should be obvious : that science , however sophisticated its instrumentation , can not generate observations that somehow enable us to look at the relationship between experience and the world as it were from outside of experience . |
| 7 | A Napoleon is a non-person , a ‘ generalhuman ’ ; and although the word does n't appear in Crime and Punishment itself , the notebooks make the point that one ca n't just live ‘ the general life of humanity ’ . |
| 8 | Recently , Eagleton , in denying the total centrality of the class struggle , reached a point that some might claim was no longer compatible with Marxism . |
| 9 | In so far as Hartman 's book wants to be read as a form of fiction , one can make the adverse literary-critical point that the prose is dense and cloyingly arch , with a crooning , caressing quality about it , suggesting the tone of a man talking quietly and earnestly to himself rather than trying to communicate anything to others . |
| 10 | I merely want to make the limited point that many of these students — who may be highly intelligent — do not have the existing familiarity with poetry , not to mention the general knowledge and cultural literacy , that would enable them to engage as equals in genuinely critical discussion . |
| 11 | Elsewhere , Sinfield makes the cogent point that the idea of a personal judgement that nevertheless has to approximate to an accepted opinion involves the candidate in learning tricks . |
| 12 | He makes the reasonable point that the upholders of traditional positions might achieve a new plausibility if they could be seen actually arguing for them , rather than merely asserting them . |
| 13 | Binyon 's volume does however bear out quite touchingly one point that Mrs Lowndes makes : that Hewlett 's ambition was to be known as a poet rather than novelist , though it was his historical romances in Wardour Street prose that brought him fame and money . |
| 14 | Viewed from one angle , a current account deficit is merely the necessary counterpart of a capital account surplus , and it is from this point that Nigel Lawson 's defensive intellectual outworks run . |
| 15 | Overlooking the point that if it were the latter he could clarify the matter on the next round , he settled for a direct raise to Four Hearts . |
| 16 | Lord Flowers , vice-chancellor of London University , says the vice-chancellers are prepared to discuss funding mechanisms with the Government , but must make the point that they will not accept under-funding of the universities . |
| 17 | He pleaded that the time had come for government bona fides to be accepted at face value and reiterated , emphatically , that the fact that all South Africans should have the vote was no longer a point that required further discussion . |
| 18 | It was only at that point that we felt confident that the field-worker was being talked to by respondents as a person rather than as some novel sex object , and the veracity of what they said could be treated by us with more confidence . |
| 19 | One point that I must be very careful about . |
| 20 | Up to a point that is correct . |
| 21 | I am going to attempt such a classification not with the belief that it is either scientific — this University has a Department of Criminology , and I am sure that my attempts would be regarded as very crude in those august circles — nor with the idea that the classification will be exhaustive , but by way of illustration of my essential point that different criminal phenomena , or anti-law-and-order phenomena , require different types of reaction on the part of the rest of society and imply different prognoses . |
| 22 | Not exactly , if only because it is precisely at this point that Volpone shows how the normal is parasitic upon the perverse . |
| 23 | She also makes the crucial point that it is wrong to attribute it to the mass of black people , finding it most marked among some intellectual and political leaders , who also obscure the central roles played by lesbians and gays in black communities . |
| 24 | Eccleshall himself implicitly acknowledges this problem , for he notes at one point that Thatcherism 's characteristics — ‘ its mixture of abrasively theoretical market economics , uncompromising anti-egalitarianism and fervent patriotism ’ — are hardly ‘ the ingredients of what Oakeshottians judge to be authentic Conservatism ’ . |
| 25 | Women 's seemingly paradoxical behaviour merely drives home the point that there are profound contradictions and complexities of position to be unravelled before we can get further in our understanding of the road to divorce . |
| 26 | Surprisingly , the turning point that saw a struggling business transformed into a trendsetting group that has become a household name can be traced back to a Dutch merchant banker , who persuaded Conran to widen his horizons . |
| 27 | The first point that one would want to make in criticism of the gens theory is that , even if descent groups such as the Iroquois gens appear as undifferentiated communities from the point of view of an outsider , this is not so from the point of view of the member of a gens . |
| 28 | The point that the position of women is not an independent factor , a simple enough point in itself , but one often explicitly refused and , more commonly , implicitly ignored , is again one which most anthropologists would now entirely support , even though they rarely acknowledge Engels 's work . |
| 29 | It was at this point that Tolkien reiterated the argument already made familiar to Lewis by Barfield . |
| 30 | It was clear from this point that the agencies represented worked in a huge variety of situations . |