Example sentences of "point [adv] [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The point also is that some , more than others , remember the sins they have been forgiven and are therefore more consciously grateful . |
| 2 | The crucial point now is that the evidence of one 's senses is not just what we appeal to in justification and verification . |
| 3 | But the point here is that Wilde also lived in terms of the discrepancy between his ‘ public ’ and ‘ private ’ selves , and took pleasure from it — from having a sexual identity elsewhere at the same time as being socially ‘ here ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ The critical point here is that this will not only affect high income earners but all people owning property . |
| 5 | The point here is that techniques get evaluated and researched but programmes and policies do not , with the result that the ‘ social factors ’ which block policies tend to go unresearched too , or at best identified piecemeal , although lip-service to their importance is sometimes paid . |
| 6 | The significant point here is that , even when they stopped drinking , the impairment of memory remained . |
| 7 | The point here is that the order of topics would then , we hope , seem sensible to the informant . |
| 8 | Occasionally several males may form loose groups together , but whether they do this or not the essential point here is that it is the combined efforts of the females that control the herd , and rear and defend the young . |
| 9 | The point here is that institutions are useful only if they have been designed to achieve a particular purpose . |
| 10 | The point here is that we do not have an applicable criterion of a correct verdict other than the one which results from a fair trial ( Rawls , 1972 , pp. 83–9 ) . |
| 11 | The most significant point here is that , whilst being ultimately sharp , quick-witted and astute , there is an alarmingly modest side to them as well ( maybe to be expected seeing as they 've barely put a distance between themselves and their former life in factory jobs and college courses ) . |
| 12 | The key point here is that it only attempts to link the islands into a loosely coupled way , and avoids the expensive development work needed to synchronise the two systems together exactly . |
| 13 | This is not to deny that the ending of a marriage through death , and through divorce , are in many ways very different experiences , nor that they may be handled differently in families , but the point here is that the idea that kin groups used to be much more stable over time than they are today has to be modified by historical evidence . |
| 14 | The important point here is that Aristotle 's women are not autonomous , not because they lack abilities or capacities but because they lack authority ; that is , their right to make decisions , to speak for themselves is not acknowledged . |
| 15 | The state of destination is given a discretion ( though the convention does not specify by which organ of the state the discretion is to be exercised ) to execute a letter rogatory which does not indicate the person to be held responsible for the costs and expenses ; the point here is that there is a discretion to refuse to execute letters in such circumstances . |
| 16 | But Quine 's point here is that there is nothing determinate in the meaning of the original sentence for the translations to approximate to . |
| 17 | Different large-scale multi-divisional enterprises may exploit these advantages in different degrees , according to the form and degree of diversification they have developed and according to the particular effectiveness of their management , but the general point here is that these advantages can not be written off as financial/speculative considerations . |
| 18 | My point here is that a further rapid increase in unemployment might have weakened the unions ' power of resistance ( one can draw a comparison with the Thatcher government ) , but playing according to rules which prohibited blatant mass unemployment tied the government 's hands . |
| 19 | The main point here is that not only did the Labour leaders reject the left 's version of the social contract with its new emphasis on a radical industrial policy , but also they increasingly came to question even the Crosland/Fabian/ ‘ Keynesian ’ version of socialism , so that their politics in the latter half of the 1970s became more and more of a mere holding operation — mere ‘ government ’ lacking any social purpose with a broad popular appeal . |
| 20 | None the less , the striking point here is that they have this central feature in common : not just that they both see the life of reason as important , but also that there is a distinctiveness about the quality , character and significance of reason when it is taken up seriously , which marks it out from conventional human experience . |
| 21 | the problem with Jesus ' disciples and the point here is that it 's our problem as well , is not that we lack a big faith . |
| 22 | The point here is that if cultural modernity is to be understood in terms of the separation and even the transcendence or ‘ aura ’ of aesthetic realism , then post-modernity would be a matter of transgression of the boundaries that separate the aesthetic from other cultural practices and from the social itself . |
| 23 | The point here is that institutions define the discourses and narratives through which aesthetic experience is received . |
| 24 | My point here is that the surrealists and Benjamin spoke of the destruction of the ( modernist and auratic ) distinction between art and life . |
| 25 | The point here is that these surrealist signifiers in ‘ allegory ’ are real , already referents . |
| 26 | The point here is that not only did surrealists see art as being composed of signifying elements drawn from the real , but understood reality to be composed of signifying elements . |
| 27 | The point here is that the surrealist signifiers in ‘ allegory ’ are real , are already referents . |
| 28 | The point here is that , in this cultural context , publicly recognized commensality is an index of a relatively permanent bond of relationship . |
| 29 | The point here is that not only does the present design of a missile invite , or call forth , a suitable antidote , say a radio jamming device . |
| 30 | The point here is that ‘ norms ’ , including normative assumptions about gender , change . |