Example sentences of "first point is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first point is that both ministers and officials involved in the review stress the lack of drama , tantrum-throwing and brinkmanship . |
| 2 | The first point is that it is generally recognized that ritual tends to increase , intensify and shift in focus at times of social crisis . |
| 3 | The first point is that , of the five people generally named in any discussion of the generation gap theory , four are Free Presbyterians , which is a similar concentration to that found in the first generation of Paisley activists . |
| 4 | The first point is that the user , if he or she uses the guide at all , probably finds the task of wading through a long , unindexed guide to find some specific piece of information somewhat tedious . |
| 5 | The first point is that they were largely developmental rather than research in the accepted sense . |
| 6 | Larrain 's first point is that Marx approaches the concept of ideology on the basis of the contradictory character of social reality ‘ which is brought about by the restricted productive forces and the division of labour ’ ( Larrain 1979 : 45 ) . |
| 7 | The first point is that educating through a language which is not the parents ' own , does not produce a deviant development . |
| 8 | The first point is that the operation is not of overall benefit to the patient — for example , the risk of death during the operation outweighs the likely benefit of the operation for the patient . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The first point is that Ramsey pricing has advantages both in terms of static efficiency and also arguably in terms of equity over cost-based pricing . |
| 11 | The first point is that you ca n't make a meaningful choice of subjects without adequate information . |
| 12 | As regards the appropriation of funds for the purposes of planned provision , a first point is that the financial institutions could be short-circuited to some extent by increasing taxation of the wealthy . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | My first point is that , although the three developmental stages , oral-anal-phallic , are universal , they are not of the same universal significance in all societies . |
| 15 | I think my first point is that the answer to your question depends to some extent on what population what demographic forecasts prove to be most likely . |
| 16 | So the first point is if you 're going to show something show it , let everybody deal with it let everybody look at it then when you 've finished with that turn it off because you want the centre of attention to come back to you , presumably . |