Example sentences of "[pos pn] point be [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My point is not that we might count the relations between parts as themselves parts — though this is not necessarily mistaken — but that the relations into which the parts enter in making up the whole affect their character and value so that they do not necessarily have the same value as they would have had out of that whole . |
| 2 | My point is simply that once an ‘ emic ’ definition is attempted , we must go beyond looking for an ‘ essential ’ definition of an isolated concept , and discuss the whole structure of moral categories . |
| 3 | My point is simply that the decision to put something in other words is a decision about style , which like all decisions about style , is constrained by the search for relevance . |
| 4 | My point is merely that even if this is so , the fact remains that narrow neutrality is often all that is meant by ‘ neutrality ’ . |
| 5 | As Institute president Ian Plaistowe said very wisely in his letter to the Financial Times , we should work towards recording similar events in similar ways ; my point was simply that we do not want to record different things in similar ways , and that is where judgment will come in : for example , some securitisations are valid , others not . |
| 6 | His point is not that the other two legs are invulnerable , but that far too much of America 's political energy has gone into discussing ICBMs and far too little into submarines , cruise missiles , stealth bombers ( which could be used against targets other than the Soviet Union ) and especially command and control centres . |