Example sentences of "point [is] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another point is that it would make most bit image files far longer than necessary . |
| 2 | But the point is that it was permanently visible . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The first point is that it is generally recognized that ritual tends to increase , intensify and shift in focus at times of social crisis . |
| 6 | The important point is that it should be used at a time when for some reason pressure is to be taken off members of the class — putting them in what is virtually a ‘ spectator ’ role can give them time to recover from what had perhaps been inadequate non-projected work . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In any case , my point is that it was during the course of this interview , when I raised the question of the difficulty of recruiting suitable staff in these times , that Mr Farraday , after a moment 's reflection , made his request of me ; that I do my best to draw up a staff plan — ‘ some sort of servants ' rota ’ as he put it — by which this house might be run on the present staff of four — that is to say , Mrs Clements , the two young girls , and myself . |
| 9 | The point is that it is only during face-to-face encounters that your behaviour is totally evident . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The point is that it is very easy , when you live alone , to give in to compulsion . |
| 12 | Sudjic 's point is that it exists , and any attempt to plan , ameliorate or build in it has to grasp this fact . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's potentially a very tough , very violent martial art , but the essential point is that it can , and should , be very beautiful and very graceful , ’ he adds . |
| 14 | The point is that it is middle management who spoil and destroy this potential relationship . |
| 15 | ( There was no way we could check this figure ; the point is that it was accepted as a social fact . ) |
| 16 | The point is that it can not be presumed to be , without careful enquiry into the whole range of factors that bear upon educational decisions . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The point is that it is not just a case of drawing circles around thinkers whose stance one may happen to approve . |
| 20 | But the point is that it 's solid oak . |
| 21 | And Hume 's point is that it is impossible to have any reason for that last belief . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Another point is that it offends the important principle of subsidiarity . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Another point is that it could be difficult to direct members to the book shelves , CAL area etc if only one desk was planned . |
| 28 | Er my next point is that it has t this panel has to consider the implications of the Selby go for growth approach which I would call it , and I do n't think Selby differ from that , I think Selby are embarked on a a a a policy of growth , that the implications of that policy have to be con taken into consideration in relation to housing in particular , erm and it is apparent that if the allocation is doubled then there is unquestionably going to be a housing implication arising from that , and whether that would fit in with policies H one and H two . |
| 29 | ‘ The point is that it will happen anyway , ’ says Ditton . |
| 30 | But the significant point is that it underlines the United States ' determination to prevent the persistent undervaluation of the mark or the yen . |