Example sentences of "make a [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | I understand that the Spanish have made a specific point of seeking to ensure that outcome . |
| 2 | My hon. Friend has made a powerful point . |
| 3 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
| 4 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
| 5 | I imagine she leaned eagerly over the desk towards me , as towards a pupil who has made a good point in his essay , smiling and nodding encouragingly . |
| 6 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 7 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 8 | I knew you were heading for Dublin , knew which hotel , because Donal had made a great point of telling me , and so , when the dinner I was at proved to be as boring and interminable as I had known it would , I left . |
| 9 | Garland ( 1985a , p. 129 ) has made a similar point : although both classical and positivist criminology incorporated a conception of the relationship between the individual and the state , he sees the positivist version as ‘ moving from a liberal mode to a more authoritarian , interventionist one ’ , at least in the case of the early , biological school . |
| 10 | As he had made a special point of emphasizing ; there was absolutely no room for friendship or personal favours in this business . |
| 11 | The Copenhagen school had made a special point of emphasising that one ought never to think of quantum mechanical systems without also annexing to them the array of classical measuring instruments with which it was proposed to make the observations . |
| 12 | Made a special point of coming there because they knew my mother would give them a bowl of soup or what was ever on . |
| 13 | Blanche nodded thoughtfully as though Parkin had made a profound point rather than a cheap jibe at a cuckolded husband . |
| 14 | I accept that the hon. Gentleman has made a fair point . |
| 15 | In paragraph four , page six , we do make a small point about the financial implications er on of course that has been resolved because of er the resolution carried forward in the budget debate and a note there about central training which I could er just , just explain slowly because I have had a number of questions about this . |
| 16 | You can make a great point of the exciting English designer , say something like — a revolutionary departure : English artist brings fresh and startling look to classical Viennese works . ’ |
| 17 | May I make a relevant point please ? |
| 18 | I mean if I could make a general point . |
| 19 | But before I do this , let me make a philosophical point . |
| 20 | We could make a similar point about the psychological literature explaining subculture as resistance to parental norms . |
| 21 | Can we make , can we just please make make a final point . |
| 22 | In a window which does not get much light , a single , showy Boston fern will make a focal point . |
| 23 | If I could just make a brief point on employment . |
| 24 | I 'll just make a humorous point , I 've got a sick dog , but I see that is n't er , covered . |
| 25 | So the male comandantes would make a special point of saluting women comandantes in front of their troops as an example for them . |
| 26 | Since most of the beginner 's forensic work will be in county courts and magistrates ' courts , he should make a special point of familiarising himself with the procedure and powers of these courts . |
| 27 | They also made a good point , that all timber-frame houses should be formally recorded as such either by the NHBC or on the title deeds , ‘ so that people realise they are living in a timber-frame house and can take professional advice when making alterations ’ . |
| 28 | The hon. Member for Ogmore ( Mr. Powell ) made a good point at the beginning of the debate when he said that there have been considerable difficulties in redesigning the Shops Act 1950 to meet the requirements of the 1990s . |
| 29 | The right hon. Member for Henley made a powerful point when he said that all we were doing was trying to introduce an envy tax . |
| 30 | As we saw , Montagu 's contemporary James Parkinson , the radical surgeon , made a visual point in the frontispiece to his Organic Remains of a Former World ( 1804–11 ) which shows Noah 's Ark grounded on a rock in the middle distance with the rainbow beyond it , while on the beach in the foreground are various shells of extinct creatures which had missed the boat . |