Example sentences of "[noun sg] make a point " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have as a matter of course made a point of attending to those particulars which hereto for have been overlooked not only by collecting the birds in their various changes of plumage but by preserving all the principal forms for dissection as well as preparing skeletons of the same … |
| 2 | All his friends know that it was Howard who did the Matterhorn , in spite of his modesty , because Prue Chase makes a point of telling everyone . |
| 3 | The exchange makes a point about Gondorian history . |
| 4 | In these and her historical plays the author made a point of making her characters speak in modern idiom . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend made a point that obviously concerns him , and he did so lucidly . |
| 6 | Just as mainstream Surrealism made a point of emphasising the intuitive powers of women , and delighted in portraying her as an earthbound sorceress , so many women artists also presented their image as subject to the cycles of nature and magical forces . |
| 7 | You 've got long hair too , black hair which you push impatiently away from your face with one hand while gesticulating with the other to make a point as you talk . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend makes a point which my right hon. and hon. Friends and I will be making on many occasions in the weeks ahead . |
| 9 | The young woman made a point of following the respective teams ’ results and their positions in the league tables and she held her own in the sporting discussions and arguments . |
| 10 | Calzaghe makes a point |
| 11 | Free from the constraints of didacticism , allowing his particular example to make a point without feeling he had to underline it , he showed in The Albatross four sharply realised apprentices learning too late the lessons of experience which greed and folly had brought to them . |
| 12 | One man made a point of showing the Girls the bullet holes in the walls and in their tablecloth . |
| 13 | By this time , I 'd walked round the front of the cab and even slapped Armstrong 's bonnet to make a point . |
| 14 | At the subsequent party conference the National Executive made a point of reasserting its adherence to the electoral truce . |
| 15 | The NARAL advertisement is an example of nonsexist language being used apparently as the norm , but in reality to make a point , to make people think of women in a context where ordinarily they might not ( as the inheritors of constitutional rights ) . |
| 16 | There 's a sense in which the two are related , because sometimes national radio picks up stuff which is done on local radio , and certainly in the B B C network , local , B B C local radio makes a point of actually sending a certain amount of material on a regular basis to national radio , there is this link , and both in terms of personnel and in terms of material . |
| 17 | It seemed that Morrissey was asserting his power over the media in order to make a point . |
| 18 | It 's a ca case of gross exaggeration in order to make a point , and parables are full of that . |
| 19 | ‘ This is a big occasion against the best international side in the world and a great opportunity to make a point . ’ |
| 20 | Chatting to him about the service ( on February 16 , two days after the Valentines ' martyrdom ) it was clear he might take the opportunity to make a point or two about the state of modern human relationships as not touched on in your average Valentine 's card . |
| 21 | On Sundays , when various other children , sons of friends of the Imperial family , came to spend time with the Prince , the Emperor and Empress made a point of being with them , sometimes taking part in the plays which the children acted . |