Example sentences of "point [be] [conj] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This album 's minus point is that it 's only 40 minutes long ; its plus point is that none of its songs are even a millimetre below excellent . |
| 2 | But the point is that it 's solid oak . |
| 3 | The underlying point is that it is not every act of provocation which should be allowed to reduce murder to manslaughter , but only those serious enough to unbalance the behaviour of a person with reasonable self-control . |
| 4 | The first point is that it is generally recognized that ritual tends to increase , intensify and shift in focus at times of social crisis . |
| 5 | Yet the central point is that it is absurd to assume that any woman is less competent to direct her life than any man she marries . |
| 6 | The point is that it is only during face-to-face encounters that your behaviour is totally evident . |
| 7 | However that may be , the striking point is that it is not the law of trusts which is leading the way to generous interpretation here , but instead the civil law . |
| 8 | The point is that it is very easy , when you live alone , to give in to compulsion . |
| 9 | The point is that it is middle management who spoil and destroy this potential relationship . |
| 10 | The first point is that it is not only the super-ego which is internalized — that is , taken over by identification from cathected social objects — but that there are involved other important components which presumably must be included in the ego — namely , the system of cognitive categorizations of the object world and the system of expressive symbolism . |
| 11 | The point is that it is not just a case of drawing circles around thinkers whose stance one may happen to approve . |
| 12 | And Hume 's point is that it is impossible to have any reason for that last belief . |
| 13 | The point is that it is hard to see the subject-matter under attack as determinations which are so unreasonable that no reasonable authority could come to them , at least not when viewed as Lord Greene M.R. visualised the notion . |
| 14 | The answer to his first point is that it is absolutely clear that a number of people who break their bail conditions are remanded in custody when they are brought back to the court ; but that happens in only about six out of 10 cases , and in four out of 10 cases when those who break their bail conditions are brought back to the court , it seems that they are no longer remanded in custody but are again let out on bail . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Another of the Beach Club 's plus points is that it is very central , right in the middle of Kavos . |
| 17 | One of the Chevron 's strong points is that it is a good-looker , with a handsome profile and modern-looking cockpit. the futuristic wing doors make for easy access and lend to the aircraft 's attractive appearance . |
| 18 | One of his central points is that it is the already employed and relatively well-off households who are in fact engaging in such self-servicing . |