Example sentences of "the point is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | For present purposes the point is that such passages , which because of the name ‘ Anchises ’ may seem Virgilian , are nothing of the kind . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The point is that , unless you have such focuses for new building , you are left with only two alternatives : to force all new building back on to those urban wastelands ; or else to let new housing grow , like fat around a middle-aged belly , on the outskirts of existing villages and country towns . |
| 5 | The point is that Knighton , for all the ludicrous exhibitionism with which he announced himself to the Stretford End , decided to withdraw , despite evidence that he could indeed finance the original deal . |
| 6 | The point is that by its nature the British parliamentary monarchy exists only in Britain . |
| 7 | The point is that you muddle her , you muddle her up . |
| 8 | The point is that for Callinicos , Nietzschean thought is an instance of Romantic anti-capitalism : that form of refusal of the implications of capitalist modernity which has been present virtually since the birth of that condition , described by Michael Lowy as ‘ opposition to capitalism in the name of pre-capitalist values ’ ( cited p. 67 ) . |
| 9 | The point is that crops and weeds are in a sense kindred spirits , with several traits in common . |
| 10 | But the point is that it was permanently visible . |
| 11 | The point is that Brook and his co-adaptors ( Jean-Claude Carriere and Marie-Helene Estienne ) have made the story available to a mass-audience . |
| 12 | The point is that it has taken players like Wallace and Hardenberger to contradict the cliches about the limitations of the instrument and to prove how flexible it really is . |
| 13 | The point is that two guards were sacrificed by the authorities in order to achieve this control situation . |
| 14 | The point is that the traditional concepts of intention and recklessness do not , of themselves , appear to be sufficiently well focused to mark out those killings which are the most heinous . |
| 15 | Of course , whether the Anura constitute a family , an order , or a class is an arbitrary matter : the point is that they do constitute a natural group . |
| 16 | The point is that I shall not borrow to pay for them — others can do that . |
| 17 | The point is that SRC 's customers are the individual businesses in Specialties and other parts of the ICI group , and they can take their work elsewhere . |
| 18 | The point is that the trivial names and acronyms are easy to remember and immediately evoke fond memories . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The point is that birds themselves are warm-blooded , like mammals , and if birds and dinosaurs are as closely related as now seems likely , then it obviously increases the likelihood that the dinosaurs themselves may have been warm-blooded . |
| 21 | The point is that so much economic growth in Latin America , from the enclave economy to contemporary multinationals , has been brought about by foreign concerns , which has denied the local entrepreneurial groups their historic role in leading , organising and financing this process . |
| 22 | The point is that reasons that could have been relied upon to justify action before his decision can not be relied upon once the decision is given . |
| 23 | The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct . |
| 24 | The point is that the law demands the right to define the permissible exceptions . |
| 25 | The point is that there is an asymmetry in the cost of failure . |
| 26 | It is a ‘ right ’ to the extent that , at the trial , the prosecution may not comment at all on the accused 's failure to answer questions and the judge may refer to it , but not adversely : the point is that in no circumstances should silence be used against an accused person . |
| 27 | The point is that if these things have to be revealed so that I can find my sister then I 'm afraid that 's the way it 's going to be . |
| 28 | The point is that , whereas most British breeds are now basically black or red , with or without white , or roan mixtures of black or red hairs with white hairs , the Jersey has always accepted what might be termed a composite coat , with many more colours , and even then the colour can change according to the season . |
| 29 | The point is that they should be reasonable rules . |
| 30 | The point is that some parents do it habitually . |