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Example sentences of "be [adv] [art] point [prep] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Hetton are only a point off the pacemakers after they won by six wickets Langley .
2	This year we are only a point behind that pace .
3	If it strikes you this way , let me remind you that Peter 's particular values are not the point at issue , and invite you to sit down quietly and compose your own , very different equivalent .
4	Think of the present problem with Bosnia there is n't a single er advanced industrial country that wishes to get engaged in ground warfare in Yugoslavia because there would be simply no point in it and any casualty er would be seen as a waste , as a throwing away of resources and you 'd have many casualties it 's argued .
5	It is the associations rather than individual local authorities which are invariably the point of contact between centre and localities .
6	If they were not the point behind the initial categorisation is nullified or at least seriously qualified ; the certainty and predictability would be minimal .
7	I think the important thing is not to let them go away thinking , you know , oh , why did I bother , there 's obviously no point in carrying on with it .
8	That is perhaps the point of the big glass , wrote Harsnet .
9	This privilege must not be abused by using it for something which is not a point of order .
10	’ That is not a point of order . ’
11	This is not a point of order .
12	It is not a point of order for me .
13	This is not a point of order .
14	But the ‘ truth ’ is not the point at issue ; what matters is that as human beings we necessarily engage in an interpretative process when we encounter others , as they do with us .
15	‘ That is not the point of Helmut 's creation ! ’ she said loudly , stamping on his foot and turning her bum out of range of his enveloping coat .
16	It 's not , it 's not his summing up , it 's just a point of clarification to indicate whether he may or may not accept this .
17	I actually mar marked twelve closed questions as it so happened but that 's , that 's neither here nor there , that 's ju that 's just a point of reference .
18	If dross is the price we pay for freedom of expression , there is nevertheless a point at which such dross may become pernicious .
19	‘ It 's not an institution , It 's not a point of view .
20	David , David , it 's not a point of order that .
21	er , Whitecliffe , it 's not a point of order because the point of order has no relevance to this particular debate
22	‘ That 's not the point at issue , ’ Fen told her .
23	It 's not it 's not the point of the money it 's the fact is that they 've lied to me erm and really I want =em .
24	There is always a point at which the limitation of science , albeit forever progressing , introduces the need to make an unproved assumption about the mystery of life , and it is at this point that a religion becomes a necessity and must take over .
25	There is always a point in every case where direct evidence has to give way to circumstantial evidence .
26	Durability is still a point of concern because most tend to lose a certain amount of loft with extended use .
27	It seems that by the end of the eighteenth century sexual love was enshrined as a central element in the making of families and this was integrated into the bourgeois familial ideology of the nineteenth century , though whether this new ideology originated in the aristocracy or amongst the aspiring bourgeoisie is still a point of major historical debate .
28	But he believes there is still a point in world leaders going to Rio for the summit .
29	A play about rival 17th-century astronomers sounds like an arid evening 's theatre — which is partly the point of Kevin Hood 's piece .
30	If there is nothing one can do , then there is clearly no point in thinking about what one might do — so the effort to formulate what might be desirable becomes merely wasted and frustrating effort .