Example sentences of "[noun] have made a [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 2 | I accept that the hon. Gentleman has made a fair point . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend has made a powerful point . |
| 6 | Blanche nodded thoughtfully as though Parkin had made a profound point rather than a cheap jibe at a cuckolded husband . |
| 7 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 8 | The Copenhagen school had made a special point of emphasising that one ought never to think of quantum mechanical systems without also annexing to them the array of classical measuring instruments with which it was proposed to make the observations . |