Example sentences of "[pron] makes a [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | This particular text supports that conclusion ; especially since the only other text which makes a similar point is from UE , a compilation of early post-classical date . |
| 2 | It is stories like these which help to protect Easton 's policemen and women from the loss of morale which Manning claims is an inevitable result of the contradiction between the image the police have of themselves and their work and the low-key nature of practical policing ( Manning 1977 : 349 ; also see Holdaway 1983 , 1988 , who makes a similar point ) . |
| 3 | He makes a good point there , though I would have preferred Craig Redpath , the swashbuckling Melrose full-back , as back-up for Gavin Hastings . |
| 4 | He makes a good point . |
| 5 | Early on he makes a general point , one taken up by later writers , that there is a relativity about identity . |
| 6 | Well the honourable gentleman as always makes er more than a debating point , I think he makes a serious point which er deserves to be answered , erm it is not , if I can put it this way , the intention of these orders er to turn auditors into er snoopers or narks er and to do so I think runs some very serious risks , not only of reducing and undermining the relationship between auditors and their clients , not only of imposing very substantial additional cost burdens on auditors which will have to be borne by companies and ultimately their clients , but also there has an example he 's given I think to be some difference , put it no more than that between public money and private money , even though I acknowledge that were talking here about the trusteeship in some cases of of er d er public deposits and funds . |
| 7 | He makes a particular point of technique . |
| 8 | He makes a special point of mentioning the people who were born in those homes and what became of them , particularly if they achieved fame later in life . |
| 9 | He makes a special point of mentioning the people who were born in those homes and what became of them , particularly if they achieved fame later in life . |
| 10 | ‘ That is a slight exaggeration but it makes a serious point . ’ |