Example sentences of "point [is] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central point is that Descartes conducts his philosophising alone and immobile in his study , arguing as though that frozen quality characterised all language use . |
| 2 | The third point is that leaflets can be produced which are specifically tailored to one category of users ( including postgraduates and academic staff ) or geared to a particular subject . |
| 3 | The crucial point is that rewards are important in determining an individual 's life-chances ; in other words , inequalities of reward are accompanied by and produce inequalities in all areas of life : conditions at work , health , housing , education , mortality , and justice . |
| 4 | By contrast , Kierkegaard asserted that the whole point is that Jesus is not another Socrates . |
| 5 | The second point is that Jesus was almost certainly not ‘ of Nazareth ’ . |
| 6 | The point is that Jesus is the unique dispenser of the Holy Spirit . |
| 7 | We can each supply our own particulars but the important point is that Rich has set us going with her place — her place that grows out of memory . |
| 8 | The point is that birds themselves are warm-blooded , like mammals , and if birds and dinosaurs are as closely related as now seems likely , then it obviously increases the likelihood that the dinosaurs themselves may have been warm-blooded . |
| 9 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 10 | GORDON Rushton , the Ffestiniog Railway 's General Manager , said : ‘ The first point is that FR is simply following the terms of the High Court judgement and the second point is that Gwynedd County Council 's application to take over the lease was rejected by the court . |
| 11 | And the final point is that vendors will not be able to solve your problem . |
| 12 | The point is that reasons that could have been relied upon to justify action before his decision can not be relied upon once the decision is given . |
| 13 | The point is that Humpage was brought on to bowl before lunch on the first morning of the match , and one wonders whether a selected wicketkeeper has ever been introduced into the attack to early a stage of a first-class match , especially since so far as I am aware Warwickshire suffered no injuries that morning . |
| 14 | But he does , for instance , insert a brief aria-like refrain four times in a recitative scene in Act III for Arsete , the counsellor of the enchantress Falsirena : The important point is that Mazzocchi feared the tedium of recitative , and the theory has been advanced that his score originally contained less of this element , the male alto hero 's part being –full of canzonette' which at the singer 's request were replaced with recitatives by another composer , the monodist and late madrigalist Sigismondo d'India . |
| 15 | For our purposes , the important point is that variants of these intermediate or compromise schemes were propounded by both Protestant and Catholic scholars . |
| 16 | The main point is that Iraq should withdraw immediately and completely from Kuwait ( in line with UN Security Council Resolution 660 , passed on the day Iraq invaded Kuwait ) . |
| 17 | But the point is that Iraq 's demoralised army — driving obsolescent tanks , short of spare parts and stripped of effective air cover — no longer poses an immediate military threat to its neighbours . |
| 18 | The point is that crops and weeds are in a sense kindred spirits , with several traits in common . |
| 19 | The second point is that Hambledon 's position on the new settlement erm is unambiguous . |
| 20 | The important point is that targets do not shift — they have to be shifted to match the reality that has shifted . |
| 21 | The point is that men in receipt of sickness benefit who attain the age of 65 and women in receipt of sickness benefit who attain the age of 60 are entitled to elect to continue to draw sickness benefit for five years in lieu of retirement pension . |
| 22 | The point is that Richard 's closest family associations , whether real or legendary , were with western France and not with England or Normandy . |
| 23 | An Intel Corp observer says the company is really competing against system makers IBM Corp , Hewlett-Packard Co , Digital Equipment Corp and Sun Microsystems Inc , and maybe MIPS Technologies Inc : his point is that Intel is bound to a policy of moving more and more of the system onto its chips until all the hardware vendor will be adding is a couple of leads ; he also says Intel is very conscious of the potentials of the computer and communications tie-up and is dreaming of a worldwide network data repository under its thumb ; strategic alliances came up and so did the name AT&T Co , and the words ‘ information utility ’ . |
| 24 | The important point is that librarians may at least be aware of its existence . |
| 25 | But the basic point is that data can be stuffed into files whenever you need it in that format . |
| 26 | The point is that data analysts can control only for those factors on which they have data . |
| 27 | The real point is that Tolkien 's theories about nature , evil , luck and our perception of the world generated as a sort of by-product modern applications and political ones . |
| 28 | The point is that SRC 's customers are the individual businesses in Specialties and other parts of the ICI group , and they can take their work elsewhere . |
| 29 | The point is that Brook and his co-adaptors ( Jean-Claude Carriere and Marie-Helene Estienne ) have made the story available to a mass-audience . |
| 30 | The point is that years of hard work and steady application , the rocks on which Zurich 's prosperity and influence have been built , have not spoiled the city or its people . |