Example sentences of "to make a [adj] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | A definition of that sort might allow the person addressed to take into account the fact that the person making the utterance was seeking to make a serious point , or engage him in reasoned discussion , or was acting unintentionally . |
| 2 | Wigner 's friend serves to make a similar point . |
| 3 | He did it not because he liked people that night but to make a moral point about something or other . |
| 4 | Huxley joined the evolutionists because he could use their theory to make a general point about the need for a naturalistic methodology in the life sciences as an essential prelude to modernization . |
| 5 | A commission of enquiry confirmed this assessment , and the Governor was withdrawn , though his period of service had in fact ended in the winter of 60/61 , so Tacitus would appear to magnify a grievance to make a political point in favour of his hero whose memoirs he may have used for his Annals . |
| 6 | Steel-Maitland was running Central Office like a business enterprise , not in order to make a political point , but because it was as natural to him as it had been foreign to Percival Hughes . |
| 7 | Most of them did so to make a political point and to gain publicity . |
| 8 | Yes , you all laugh — who , all right , he makes — some of the things he says are valid , but because he 's watered his message down , if you , well ‘ watered down ’ is the wrong , popularized his message to make a political point , at the same time he 's alienated other people who he needs to rely on in this scientific community to help him go , go forward . |
| 9 | I want to make a limited point at this juncture , I reserve the right to come back later on , and it 's become three points as a result of the discussion we 've already had , my view on the contribution of the of the greenbelt to the York issue is n't just the setting of the city , it 's the character of the city , and that would include the central city and the historic city , and the need to limit the physical expansion and size of the urban area because of the implications inside the historic city , and that would certainly apply to other cities with greenbelts that I 'm familiar with like York , like er Oxford , which the character suffers from expansion , possibly excessive , Norwich , that considered a greenbelt , and London , if you like that did n't get its greenbelt until we had the character rather drastically altered , so I think it is n't just the setting and how you see the city from the ring road , it 's actually what happens inside the core , the second point I want to make is really for clarification perhaps , er and it relates to the question of allocations between the built up area and the inner edge of the greenbelt , as I understand it all those allocations are already er included in the Ryedale local plan , and are already therefore included in the commitments that we looked at in Ryedale , I do n't think there is a further reserve of spare opportunities that might be used either before or after two thousand and six , that 's certainly my understanding and if anybody was was taking a different view I think that should be clear , and now I come to the one point that I was actually going to raise , erm I think it 's important that in this discussion of the relations between York city and Greater York , that we get a , early on , a clear view of what the requirements are in York , not just its capacity which we 've discussed so far , and a figure of three thousand three hundred seems to be a fairly common currency , but its requirements , and I want to address a particular question to the County Council , which is in my proof , so they 've had as it were four weeks notice of it . |
| 10 | To say this is , it should be noted , is to make a theological point : since it is held that God is the creator , so that what is natural , and what is also found to be the case , must accord with what is God 's intention . |
| 11 | Intervening to make a reasoned point about investment in space technology , Mr Wilkinson had his head bitten off in full view of the viewers . |
| 12 | At other times it is more effective to ignore history and etymology in order to make a feminist point . |
| 13 | They are often organised and structured in the interests of influential and powerful bodies in order to make a particular point , perhaps to make a case for more money or resources , or to show a particular body or organisation in a good light . |
| 14 | If the hon. Gentleman wishes to make a particular point about his locality , he should write to me about it and I shall ensure that account is taken of his views . |
| 15 | Well you do know th th that you 're saying that they want to make a particular point strongly and er that that might involve erm an elephant in of bad taste in order to make it striking and to make people look at it and think about it . |
| 16 | It 's not quite the smallest of all the seeds , but nevertheless it 's small enough to make a proverbial point like tall as a house , or small as a mouse , small as a grain of mustard seed . |
| 17 | When the Prince and Princess of Wales quite rightly scrapped their tour of the mainland , they had the opportunity to make a contrasting point in Hong Kong . |
| 18 | I am not trying to make a nationalistic point here . |
| 19 | ( b ) Why has the historian chosen such language to make a historical point ? |
| 20 | Is it correct to say that the tramps actually used to make a special point of coming to see your father ? |
| 21 | In any case , Alida intended to make a clear point of lifting . |
| 22 | ( This was done by those Jews who wished to make a Zionistic point , but it was not so shared by Leonard or his family . ) |
| 23 | To pick them up , moisten the paintbrush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point and pick up the aphids with the tip of the brush . |
| 24 | To pick them up , moisten the paint-brush slightly , draw out the bristles to make a fine point , and pick up a larva with the tip of the brush and put it gently on to the new plant . |