Example sentences of "[adj] is a point [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a point worth dwelling on . |
| 2 | I run the risk of sounding patronising here , but I do feel that this is a point worth making . |
| 3 | It can not be coincidence that the folding of the septal walls occurs at the point where they meet the body shell of the animal ; this is a point of relative weakness , and all good joinery benefits from strengthening the joint . |
| 4 | The great difficulty with music-hall and vaudeville , and this is a point of crucial significance to movie historians , is that they have earned or been given a very special place in the popular memory and in social history by those who recall with great fondness those heady pre-1914 days . |
| 5 | This is a point of some pride in Nuln where the bridge is seen as one of the great marvels of the Old World . |
| 6 | ‘ Speaking personally , yes , this is a point of concern , but Rambo here seems to consider that 's one of the things we have to live with if we 're going to beat the baddies . ’ |
| 7 | This is a point of importance . |
| 8 | What people to look you know in the modern society women do n't have to rely on men or do n't have to have traditional sex roles , this is a point of view is n't it ? |
| 9 | On the one hand — and this is a point to which I shall return — there is a dual claim against Lukács ' evolutionism ( to the effect that different levels of a social formation are relatively autonomous : crudely , if bourgeois society is decadent this does not necessarily mean , as Lukács thought it did , that its art is too ) , and in favour of the possibility of being able to pass a positive ‘ aesthetic judgement ’ upon a particular work however questionable the general category under which it has been produced ( a position related to Brecht 's polemic against Lukács ) . |
| 10 | This is a point to which we will return later . |
| 11 | This is a point to which I shall be returning . |
| 12 | This is a point to which we return time and again . |
| 13 | ( This is a point to which we shall return . ) |
| 14 | This is a point to which I shall return in the concluding chapter . |
| 15 | This is a point on the lawn where there may not be any starling . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , this is a point on which her novels defy easy assimilation to those of Iris Murdoch or Angus Wilson , with whom she has also been compared . |
| 17 | There are few who are prepared to argue the second , and that is a point of view we should hear more about . |
| 18 | That is a point of view which I understand , but which I should not commend against a background in which Parliament , when removing the unfettered right of a land owner to develop his land as he wished , thought it right to enable a land owner to get a second opinion if the local decision on his application was adverse . |