Example sentences of "the point is that [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 But the point is that a great variety of inputs and outputs are employed and interact with each other .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The point is that the second version contains superfluous and irrelevant information , though this would not necessarily be the case if we were explaining what we do in the morning to an ( English-speaking ! )
8 It was a terrifying thought , but it had behind it a lot of erm I think of force , and the point is that the primary school teacher who was getting the child to crouch before the Roman gladiator was not in the business of training professional historians , was much more interested in getting the child involved in an educational way , yet ironically was coming closer to perhaps what we 're trying to do at university now , than the teacher who was going through a list of the textile industries and so on .
9 But the point is that the inner voice , or the voice of conscience , is not self-authenticating .
10 This last description is often misunderstood : the point is that the economic is never a simple causal function that operates alone :
11 The point is that the one exploitation is part of the other , either way women are treated as shit . ’
12 The point is that the psychophysical approach forces you to develop a model of how the system , in this instance the mechanisms of colour discrimination , might work and it is this model that is used to guide the direct physiological measurements .
13 The point is that the trivial names and acronyms are easy to remember and immediately evoke fond memories .
14 The point is that the monastic system was not just a spontaneous occurrence .
15 The point is that the whole idea of substance as an entity breaks down ; which is of course the opposite of what Spinoza originally intended .
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