Example sentences of "[conj] [art] point is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A theologian , Eric Mascall , in his book Christian Theology and Natural Science , wrote about such problems that the point is that , although a physicist knows the objective world only through the mediation of sensation , the essential character of the objective world is not sensibility but intelligibility . |
| 2 | And the point is that all this is good , fair and equitable if you start from the conventional wisdom that : housewives do n't need money of their own because they are supported by their husbands ; they are supported by their husbands because they are dependants ; and they are dependants because they ‘ do n't work ’ . |
| 3 | But 40%–60% of every character is one 's self and the point is that the fiction would be a truer picture of my spiritual life than my own life . |
| 4 | And the point is that wherever you go you tend to keep your eye open and not wait for something to crop up ; you do tend to say ‘ 'Ello , ‘ ello , ‘ ello , What 's this ? |
| 5 | ‘ And the point is that the savings increase below this number as authorities become fewer and larger , ’ added Raymond Wood . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman has said that it is in the process of acquiring two incredibly beautiful works and the point is that it is acquiring them even though they cost much more than the nominal amount of Government grant available . |
| 7 | And the point is that if they then change |
| 8 | It was a terrifying thought , but it had behind it a lot of erm I think of force , and the point is that the primary school teacher who was getting the child to crouch before the Roman gladiator was not in the business of training professional historians , was much more interested in getting the child involved in an educational way , yet ironically was coming closer to perhaps what we 're trying to do at university now , than the teacher who was going through a list of the textile industries and so on . |
| 9 | But the point is that it was permanently visible . |
| 10 | As I considered the contents of the squadron report , it seemed to me that the probability was that the bodies were those of aircrew from supply aircraft , for there was some suggestion in the report that a Liberator and a Halifax had been lost over the Morvan when ferrying supplies ; but the point is that no proper statement was ever made in regimental records . |
| 11 | But the point is that the mind of a child is often capable of a greater grasp of the complexity of a theological problem than an adult . |
| 12 | Admittedly the action is heavily implied and most people would take the hint but the point is that , strictly speaking ideas have to be explicit . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , yes , man , but the point is that I did n't leave it , and now these confounded women have taken possession of the cottage . |
| 14 | But the point is that the inner voice , or the voice of conscience , is not self-authenticating . |
| 15 | You could be a realist , an expressionist or a nouveau romancier but the point is that you are not content to record things as they are . |
| 16 | But the point is that Iraq 's demoralised army — driving obsolescent tanks , short of spare parts and stripped of effective air cover — no longer poses an immediate military threat to its neighbours . |
| 17 | But the point is that a great variety of inputs and outputs are employed and interact with each other . |
| 18 | But the point is that there is no automatic mechanism to ensure that taxation , saving , and import flows are immediately returned to the domestic circular flow . |
| 19 | It 's not up to a writer to say whether a book works or not , but the point is that you can have good ideas and write bad novels from them ! |
| 20 | But the point is that I do n't see myself as a playwright in the same way I would see myself as a prose writer . |
| 21 | But the point is that it 's solid oak . |
| 22 | This would mean re-examining the current grouping of units of production into larger enterprises , but the point is that ‘ enterprises ’ , as groupings of operating units , would be reconstructed rather than simply dismantled into small independent components . |
| 23 | But the point is that making profits for shareholders must now be seen as a mechanism for promoting the public interest , and not as an end in itself . |
| 24 | But the point is that it makes sense for him to reject such a statement as false on a given occasion , only if he is prepared to admit that in different circumstances the same statement could be true . |
| 25 | But the point is that we are not told why the distinction between particular and species-identity makes sense at all . |
| 26 | She goes , No but the point is that people kill for drugs which probably is right , I do n't know , so she says , We 're just not coming down . |
| 27 | Ultimately , there might have been differences between them in what enlargement meant , but the point is that higher education stood for an overriding and widening development of the mind . |
| 28 | These hoops can be jumped through quickly if all parties cooperate , but the point is that some potential candidates for the 1990 Edinburgh course will already be looking for possible courses early in 1989 . |
| 29 | But the point is that the scale constitutes an " operational measure " for the theoretical concept of alienation . |
| 30 | They may watch it knowingly as a piece of kitsch , but the point is that they are watching it . |