Example sentences of "making a [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the conceit he is making a serious point : his poetry is repetitive because the virtues of the Friend are semper eadem . |
| 2 | According to Simon Lyster of the World Wide Fund for Nature : " They are making a serious point . |
| 3 | He is not making a temporal point about something that must have happened ‘ in the beginning ’ — the first push . |
| 4 | But Aristotle is not just making a sociological point about what is and is not permitted to women in his society . |
| 5 | At the extreme , his death may be entirely incidental to some criminal lunatic making a political point , or just blind violence like the Belgian supermarket killings . |
| 6 | In this text Africanus was making a general point . |
| 7 | It is not clear from the article to what extent it was Dutch society that he was basing his analysis on , but given that he appears to be making a general point about changes within Western Europe , it is important to point out that most of the literature on youth , adolescence and relations between the generations in Britain has tended to concentrate on , to use Elias ' term again , the changing balance of power between the generations within the working class . |
| 8 | I I I mak making a general point . |
| 9 | You were making a good point there . |
| 10 | Bono , the insurgent , irrepressible singer for Dublin quartet U2 , finishes making a hard point using a typically animated gesture . |
| 11 | SIR — Glynn Jones 's article ( April 10 ) about the Japanese rediscovering Vertical Take-off and Landing transports contains a major error while making a valid point . |
| 12 | I think he 's making a valid point . |
| 13 | I think you 're making a valid point here . |
| 14 | All the available funds should be targeted in that way to ensure that we achieve the best social return on the available resources — If Conservative Members think that I am making a partisan point , I invite the Secretary of State for the Environment to move beyond the Municipal Journal . |
| 15 | And indeed , to go for a more precise figure would suggest that I was making a particular point . |
| 16 | I mean we were in a particular discussion last night I mean that chap was making a particular point and we were able to ask questions and that was very useful and it helped everything else and as a result I have a view that Hydro Electric have a certain commitment to the community and I respect it for having that commitment . |
| 17 | On the contrary , by correcting himself in this way the author is making a particular point : that although the occasion might have been regarded as a performance by some , that although it might have in time become a performance , this description is not an accurate representation of the narrator 's memories . |
| 18 | The very notion of making a literary point about the writer 's relation to language , however true , will have a cruelly mocking echo . |
| 19 | But I am making a different point . |