Example sentences of "point [is] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I will leave to others how far this solves the difficulty ; my point is that no comparable difficulty arises in evolutionary game theory . |
| 3 | This is not the same thing as saying that any tone can be used in any context ; the point is that no particular tone has a unique ‘ privilege of occurrence ’ in a particular context . |
| 4 | For our present purpose , however , the important point is that a hierarchical pattern is what we expect to see if the objects being classified have originated by a process of branching . |
| 5 | The second point is that a small energy input into the thermostat can release a large quantity of energy from the boiler . |
| 6 | While it might be interesting to compare Mrs. Simper 's and Sophronia 's reactions to lower servants better educated than themselves , the essential point is that a violation of the ordinary division of labour could easily result in a domestic servant losing his or her place . |
| 7 | The essential point is that a conception of justice fulfils its social role provided that citizens equally conscientious and sharing roughly the same beliefs find that , by affirming the framework of deliberation set up by it , they are normally led to a sufficient convergence of opinion . |
| 8 | The important point is that a basic awareness of body language enables us not only to recognize danger signals from other people but also to tell those around us that we do n't intend to submit meekly to being attacked . |
| 9 | Our point is that a popular movement such as the peace movement carries within itself a notion of a just society and that law can not be considered merely as a ‘ tool ’ isolated from broader political and social considerations . |
| 10 | But the point is that a great variety of inputs and outputs are employed and interact with each other . |
| 11 | The point is that a statement to the effect that a given concept is non-empty presupposes an understanding of " existence " rather than enabling us to grasp its meaning ; unless , of course , the concept is such that its non-emptiness analytically follows from its meaning , in which case all that is required is to understand the concept . |
| 12 | The point is that a " pluralistic " inference is based on the assumption that such relations depict an objective order of things " out there " , not merely our own impression of such an order , and this is precisely where the main difficulty lies . |
| 13 | The point is that a careful reading of this fluent and apparently self-conscious critical analysis of a culture raises serious suspicions about the nature of its claims . |
| 14 | It is doubtful if the corridors of Whitehall and the British civil service will quite match this record , but the simple point is that a host of records of potential interest to the historian that would have manifested themselves on paper will no longer do so . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | One good point is that an original direction , but not a supplementary direction , can not be retrospective as it only has ‘ effect from the date of the direction ’ ( para 1A(1) and ( 4 ) ) . |
| 17 | The point is that an equation can be interpreted as stating this : given each of a number of possible extents to which specified things possess certain different general properties , it is then the case , despite accompanying conditions and events , that another specified thing would still possess another general property to one of a number of possible extents . |
| 18 | Our starting point is that an operator is simply something which , given a vector , is a means of associating another vector with it . |
| 19 | The significant point is that an initial capital is a form of emphasis or highlighting in writing , and therefore can be used as a visual correlative of emphasis in speech ( see further 5.4.2 ) . |
| 20 | However , one thing worth mentioning at this point is that the larger parts are not always a guarantee of an agent 's interest — quite often big roles will attract attention , but a student who has been very well cast in a smaller role may hit the mark just as effectively . |
| 21 | The third point is that the opponent 's fist only needs a slight deflection so you should n't need to make your action too pronounced . |
| 22 | The second and more important point is that the general argument against behaviouristic theories does take in functionalism and is not merely directed against traditional behaviourism : it works against any theory that analyses one 's conception of the world simply in terms of the way one functions — that is , behaves — in the world . |
| 23 | The second general point is that the discussion on Greece and Rome shows that Engels thought that the general scheme of social causation developed by Marx for capitalism applied to pre-capitalist formations , so long as these were past the gens stages . |
| 24 | The key point is that the old , regulated financial systems stopped people from borrowing as much as they wanted at a given level of interest rates . |
| 25 | Of course , this can only be verified by a complete inventory , but the important point is that the sampling methods used , and the way in which the results were extrapolated to apply to the whole collection , are based on a sound mathematical theory which is widely used and tested in other fields , and therefore carried sufficient weight to satisfy the Museum and its auditors . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A minus point is that the oil-filter cap can only be reached with the covers off . |
| 28 | The interesting point is that the really quite moderate and bourgeois position of the DUP is often over looked , not just by its critics ( one would expect that ) , but also by its supporters . |
| 29 | Another important point is that the less time you have in which to do something , the more it costs because you start to run into things like overtime and special delivery payments , rush jobs and so on . |
| 30 | The point is that the trivial names and acronyms are easy to remember and immediately evoke fond memories . |