Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] [be] [adv] [art] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course Kirillov is anything but a normal human being ; and that is just the point . |
| 2 | Of course Cagney was a marvellous showman and that was precisely the point , for audiences had shown a predilection for zest and sharpness and a new kind of urban charm and Hollywood was quite prepared to exploit these qualities in its own way . |
| 3 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 4 | I think also on the inherent fault situation , I mean when somebody buys a vehicle the vehicle has to be of a standard obviously and if there are problems there then obviously people appreciate the fact that they can go back and this is really the point of dealing with a reputable dealer from the word go . |
| 5 | But that 's just the point — it 's dismal and bleak and they 're frozen stiff , hoping to catch Ramirez in the stake- out and barely able to express anything , but what they do express is infinitely lugubrious and despondent . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , but that 's just the point , that 's just the brilliance of it . |
| 7 | By the time we got home — the gatehouse to Wytham Abbey — Michael was saying things like , ‘ It 's ugly , but that 's partly the point ’ . |
| 8 | But that is precisely the point : the boom would have been pulled up sharply if consumption had not grown fast enough , and rising wages were essential to that growth . |
| 9 | The editorial additions sound gorgeous , of course , but that is hardly the point . |
| 10 | Admittedly no one could hear , but that was hardly the point , I could . |