Example sentences of "point that [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Miller stressed the point that former writers had not had the opportunity of seeing the flower or fruit of new exotics cultivated in English gardens , but by this time many had and details of others had been ‘ communicated by persons of skill from abroad ’ and ‘ so the ranging of plants under their proper heads is now better understood and the science of botany rendered more complete ’ .
2 It should be noted at this point that all broadcasting in the colonial territories was initiated and administered by the colonial governments : the private entrepreneur has been virtually excluded from broadcasting on the African continent .
3 It could be objected at this point that all philosophy is critical , that all philosophical theory attempts to question , correct or overturn current orthodoxy and so that feminist philosophy is just philosophy , and there is nothing specifically feminist about it .
4 It should be explained at this point that each university is funded at the full rate for only a core number of ‘ Fully Funded ’ students in each of 25 ‘ narrow ’ subject groups .
5 It 's at that point that many women start trying to get back into the labour market and at that point it is extremely difficult , so I think that we 're talking about a number of things .
6 It is worth mentioning at this point that many people who were adopted as babies feel the need in midlife to search out their natural parents .
7 Do not the figures given by my hon. Friend underline the point that many pensioners are well off — and we welcome that — and that that is a justification of the Government 's policy of targeting extra help on those who really need it ?
8 He made the point that most debtors will have to pay , and will respond positively when things improve .
9 The report suggested that corruption had reached such a point that several officers had connived in a plot to topple the government in the early 1980s .
10 Although they might have been relatively cheap to build they were expensive to maintain , a point that some experts were putting at the time .
11 The sudden influx of sugar also caused some temporary problems : ‘ Russian storage facilities for Cuba 's raw sugar appear to have been strained to the point that some sugar spoiled .
12 Saunders makes the important point that these feelings about the home increase as people get older .
13 I wish to make clear at this point that this kind of proof that God exists is not required in order to make the case for theism .
14 May I make the point that this money was committed as part of a contingency fund in the budget before poll tax came in right ?
15 The appellants did not take the point that this transaction was not a sale .
16 The point that this motion makes is to try to make action , the facilitating attitudes over there is gon na lead to five hundred people losing their jobs in April .
17 It is at this point that this perspective relates to another of our central themes : that of nationalism and the national interest .
18 When Iago outlines his plan to regain Othello 's respect through the intervention of Desdemona , Cassio is grateful : The point that this sequence establishes is that Cassio , like Roderigo before him , and like Othello , and Desdemona after him , trusts Iago and believes that he has appeared in the nick of time , solely in order to help him .
19 The Briefing Paper makes the point that more resources have been taken out of the area in the last decade than are being put back in now .
20 ‘ Crossing a deceptively smooth glacier surface , the person who breaks into a crevasse suddenly arrives into an utterly vertical world ’ … makes early the good point that any number of trouble-free glacier crossings teach the skier or mountaineer nothing about crevasse rescue ; unless an accident happens , by which time it is too late to start learning .
21 All I 'm gon na do after this is reproduce the list with all of the points that each person has agreed .
22 Although not of itself usually intended to be legally binding , we find that the heads of agreement act as a useful instruction to the lawyers , since the terms convey the intentions of the principals and deal with many of the theoretical and technical points that each side 's lawyer feel duty bound to raise .
23 As already mentioned , we find that the heads of agreement act as a useful instruction to the lawyers , since the terms convey the intentions of the principals and deal with many of the theoretical and technical points that each side 's lawyers feel duty bound to raise .
24 of the main points that that training would cover .
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