Example sentences of "point is " in BNC.
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| 1 | A demonstration of the point is to compare Civilisation by Kenneth Clark in its forms as television and book . |
| 2 | Another point is also made explicitly. : his difficulty is assessing Cézanne 's work at the end of the century . |
| 3 | The sticking point is , generally , who should get this encouragement ? |
| 4 | The point is that they are all vital young men with love on their minds , full of colourful words to express their feelings , and all are within the range of the eighteen to twenty-five year old student actor . |
| 5 | However , one thing worth mentioning at this point is that the larger parts are not always a guarantee of an agent 's interest — quite often big roles will attract attention , but a student who has been very well cast in a smaller role may hit the mark just as effectively . |
| 6 | But the point is there can never be any more . |
| 7 | The point is , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that he had spent his life seeking her out , yet left his feet to do the dirty work . |
| 8 | The point is , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , that Actaeon is not free to narrate what he has seen , but Ovid is . |
| 9 | There is always a tendency for pilots to relax as the launch point is reached . |
| 10 | Perhaps the most important point is that , regardless of who may be at the launch point , the pilot alone bears the responsibility for accepting or rejecting the launch in the light of the situation as he sees it from the cockpit . |
| 11 | The second point is that many people lean forwards as they slap down the opponent 's punch and so you need to remember that there are two fists to worry about here , not one ! |
| 12 | The third point is that the opponent 's fist only needs a slight deflection so you should n't need to make your action too pronounced . |
| 13 | This last point is sometimes regarded as a bad fault in basic training , but it is almost inevitable in a long-ranging competition reverse punch . |
| 14 | The second important point is , do n't kick unless you have a target . |
| 15 | The fourth point is the one that requires the greatest skill because it presupposes that you apply the hook at precisely the right time . |
| 16 | The second point is that you may be asked to take a drug test at any squad session . |
| 17 | The second and more important point is that the general argument against behaviouristic theories does take in functionalism and is not merely directed against traditional behaviourism : it works against any theory that analyses one 's conception of the world simply in terms of the way one functions — that is , behaves — in the world . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | So the first point is : Englishness Eludes . |
| 20 | Finding the point is not easy , and the gully walls are vertical elsewhere , so if in doubt continue up and back to the source of the gullies . |
| 21 | The sensitivity sought at the test point is 20 000 gamma/volt : + 2.5V corresponds to a range of 100,000 gamma so the initial Helmholtz coil current setting should cover this . |
| 22 | Another point is that it would make most bit image files far longer than necessary . |
| 23 | Davie 's provocative point is well taken . |
| 24 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 25 | Still more to the point is another essay in that volume , ‘ Mr Eliot s Solid Merit ’ ( originally in the New English Weekly for 12 July 1934 ) . |
| 26 | For present purposes the point is that such passages , which because of the name ‘ Anchises ’ may seem Virgilian , are nothing of the kind . |
| 27 | This is very astute criticism of Yeats : but more to the point is that Pound here confesses self-doubts such as he would have concealed from anyone he did not trust absolutely . |
| 28 | ‘ In fighting cancer , the most critical point is when you decide that you are going to survive . |
| 29 | ‘ The other point is that once you have established a good system of discipline , you do n't have to smack very often . |
| 30 | Hughie Smith , president of the National Gypsy Council , a body set up to fight for the rights of gypsies , said : ‘ The point is that York does have hundreds of acres of land . |