Example sentences of "[adv] the point " in BNC.
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| 1 | The clean channel is too clean , and beyond a certain volume ( which is painful ! ) the sounds starts to break up into a rough distortion ( presumably the point at which the speaker starts to flap ) . |
| 2 | Another aspect of this extravagance is the large amount of unanalysable recorded data ; this is presumably the point Labov is making when he remarks that the ( technical ) quality of participant-observation data is often poor ( 1981 : 4 ) . |
| 3 | But that , as you see , is not altogether the point ! ’ |
| 4 | It may help if you use a notebook to write down the point you want to make . |
| 5 | Silverpoint can be resharpened on a metal file so that as the silver is worn down the point can be redefined easily . |
| 6 | That is perhaps the point of the big glass , wrote Harsnet . |
| 7 | Perhaps the point can be best brought out by considering first authority as it functions in one , not untypical , context . |
| 8 | ‘ Good , because — ’ Golding broke off , then made a vague temporizing gesture with his hand and said : ‘ Well , perhaps the point is made . ’ |
| 9 | Yes er I think perhaps the point I 'd like to emphasis is that the increase er in runway length is really quite a modest one er and therefore it has n't had an enormous impact . |
| 10 | I mean perhaps the point I have n't brought out , which was another enormous effect from the mixed ability teaching , or the mixed ability grouping , was the improvement in the pupils erm behaviour . |
| 11 | Perhaps the point I have n't brought out , which was another enormous effect from the mixed ability teaching , or the mixed ability grouping , was the improvement in the pupils ' behaviour . |
| 12 | Obviously the point is that y y it 's still within the , the er bounds of the er couple itself . |
| 13 | So the point of the maxim that actions speak louder than words is not that people never use non-linguistic actions to communicate ( which is when they may be deliberately misleading ) , but that language is much less often used to do anything else . |
| 14 | So the point about the royals , erm , getting involved with these things is there 's always gon na be people that disagree with what they 're lobbying for . |
| 15 | But on the other hand it may , and so the point ought to be taken . |
| 16 | So the point I 'm trying to make is that you ca n't rely on one product to do the whole job . |
| 17 | So the point I 'm making is that offspring will be prepared to make sacrifices under those conditions , where erm , the R is greater than C. But parents will want offspring to make sacrifices , wherever B is greater than C , and the parent is not concerned with the discount parameter R , but agreed on relatedness , because parents are equally related through their offspring . |
| 18 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 19 | So the point of conclusion is if the myth is different in the Bible then the likely explanation is that it was tampered with , but that the scribes and the people who wrote the Bible altered the and they changed it round why should they change this myth ? |
| 20 | So the point I 'm making to you is , is this . |
| 21 | And what happens is that if an embryo has the single gene for being male , it happens to have a white chromosome not surprisingly , it turns on thousands of other genes that then make the embryo into a male , but , but that single gene has to be there to act as a switch and that 's that gene is also present in alligators and crocodiles so the point I 'm making is it is just wrong to say that , that all these discoveries about genetics cut no ice with human evolution , because human things can not be influenced by single genes . |
| 22 | So the point I am making is that terms like reproductive success are purely quantitative , they 're wholly objective and scientific . |
| 23 | And so the point I 'm making is that , is that a modern insight into Darwinian evolution is based on a wholly scientific basis and social Darwinism may have got Darwinism a bad name by associating it with slogans like survival of the fittest , but modern Darwinism er is n't like that . |
| 24 | So the point erm I wish to make erm on er Mr 's observations , is that it 's not the strategy of the structure plan was not simply erm to seek an initial reduction erm in the rate of residential development in the county and then that roll that rate forward in progressive erm amendments to the structure plan , Hambleton District Council believes that the logical interpretation of these statements is that a progressive reduction er in house building and the rates of migration should be sought through subsequent alterations to the plan . |
| 25 | And so the point that Mr makes that because you have you you assess needs within a six mile radius effectively , er does n't necessarily mean you meet those needs er within that six mile radius . |
| 26 | So the point Mr Walker 's making is there 's two two families in already |
| 27 | So the point is yeah . |
| 28 | The Americans and their allies have always made it plain that January 15th was merely the point after which war would become authorised , not necessarily the date for attack . |
| 29 | The Venetian author of the Italian Relation of England commented specifically on the English sense of national pride , and presumably was thinking of attitudes which he encountered generally and not merely the point of view of the more literate : ' … the English are great lovers of themselves and everything belonging to them ; they think that there are no other men than themselves , and no other world but England ; and whenever they see a handsome foreigner , they say ‘ he looks like an Englishman ’ ' ( 35 , pp.20–1 ) . |
| 30 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that account , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which result in extra costs on the engine side , are the customer 's liability , erm but the main increase in cost is actually in the equipment area and results I think , from the fact that the equipment prices turned out to be higher than was originally estimated at the start of the programme and also the fact that U K industry won a higher work share on equipment that we had originally been entitled to and budgeted for and lastly the point you mentioned that Germany has withdrawn from some parts of the requirement and that made certain equipments non-common and we have had to take a larger share of the costs of those equipments than originally planned . |