Example sentences of "pointed [adv prt] [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Ajdabiya a young man , Wunis Abdulhadi , the brother of the lawyer Abdulsalam Abdulhadi , pointed out that The Financial Times had already announced the formation of Libyan-financed joint enterprises and that the government had given months ago ; he concluded there was no point in discussing the issue . |
| 2 | The report also pointed out that the average life expectancy in the developing world had risen from 46 to 62 in the period 1962-87 , while infant mortality had dropped by 50 per cent . |
| 3 | An article in Our Flag in November 1912 pointed out that the average turnover of votes in by-elections had been about 1,300 votes per contest and that only 250 votes per contest was needed for an overall Unionist majority . |
| 4 | Paul Girouard in The Return to Camelot pointed out that the chivalric code of conduct ‘ never recovered from the Great War partly because the War itself was such a shattering of illusions , partly because it helped to produce a world in which the necessary conditions for chivalry were increasingly absent ’ and that the absence of so many men at the Front ‘ had put women in a position of responsibility which made many of them distrust chivalry as a form of concealed slavery ’ . |
| 5 | Gorbachev pointed out that the contemporary world was ‘ complicated , diverse , dynamic , permeated with contending tendencies , and full of contradictions ’ . |
| 6 | She pointed out that the piebald donkey in leather boots that had for years pulled the mowing machine which cut the acres of grass at Deer Forest , was at the end of a useful life , and , in any case , the whole performance took up two working days of the farm labourer who drove her in long reins — reins thin as thread and cracked with age : there was nothing economical about that . |
| 7 | The profits compare with £25.4 million for 1991 , but analysts pointed out that the 1991 figure included a £4.9 million exceptional transfer resulting from a change in the bonus scales on the company 's industrial branch business . |
| 8 | Ashton pointed out that the late rise of formal banking in the country was due in part to the fact that it grew naturally out of the financial activities of men who " were content to describe themselves simply as merchants or traders , retailers or even inn-keepers " . |
| 9 | Gutteridge pointed out that the Combined Studies Board was not opposed to common teaching for the two degrees , but underlined the difficulties in practice . |
| 10 | Lord Diplock also pointed out that the only case brought to their Lordships ' attention in which an appellate court had actually excluded evidence on the ground that it had been unfairly obtained by a trick was Reg. v. Payne [ 1963 ] 1 W.L.R. 637 . |
| 11 | He rightly pointed out that the only duty of the Glamorgan selectors is to make certain the best captain is appointed in succession to Butcher . |
| 12 | Pakistan denied that any missile sites were under construction on her soil and pointed out that the Soviet Union had herself been supplying arms and building airfields and other military installations in countries in the neighbourhood of Pakistan . |
| 13 | However , critics pointed out that the Soviet Union already had an upgraded fifth model of the SS-18 and was able , therefore , to get by on half its present firepower ; they also claimed that the USA had bowed to Soviet wishes that the START treaty cover all air-launched , nuclear-tipped missiles with a range of more than 375 miles ( 600 km ) . |
| 14 | He pointed out that the federal government was directly responsible for determining the prices of only 11.5 per cent of industrial products and 14.5 per cent of retail prices , and concluded from that that the government played only a minor role in generating inflation . |
| 15 | [ His Lordship discussed Ward v. Byham ( above , p. 224 ) and Williams v. Williams ( above , p.218 ) , and pointed out that the other judges in those cases found that there was ample consideration . ] |
| 16 | The IIF cautiously welcomed the debt-reduction agreements struck with Mexico and the Philippines [ see p. 37243 ; p. 37580 for their respective finalization ] , but it pointed out that the two countries had continued to service their obligations during negotiation of the deals , in contrast with other middle-income debtor nations seeking relief under the plan . |
| 17 | They pointed out that the conditioning phase of a latent inhibition experiment involves a treatment ( a change in the outcome of the target stimulus — the presentation of a US ) that , according to the theory , should produce a change in the value of α . |
| 18 | Mortensen ( 1933a ) pointed out that the oral frame was subject to variation , particularly the shape and relative positions of the infradental papillae to one another . |
| 19 | He pointed out that the best papers should indeed go to international journals because it is good both for the author and for international medical literature . |
| 20 | But there were also two major objections to Skybolt : it was the most expensive of the air mobile options ; and the Americans pointed out that the technological risks were so high that the project might well fail . |
| 21 | He said lenders did not require ‘ lectures in home economics ’ and pointed out that the chief executives do n't make the country 's economic policies . |
| 22 | Introducing the Arts Council 's annual report , Mr Palumbo , a highly successful property developer , pointed out that the public sector gave five times as much as the private sector in Britain , whereas in the United States 90 per cent of the arts were funded by private donations . |
| 23 | When he talked to his mother on the telephone last night about the Los Angeles riots , she pointed out that the same sort of thing — Koreans being attacked by cops , but the cops never being guilty — used to happen in Japan . |
| 24 | Soviet commentaries pointed out that the foreign ministers of the non-aligned states had expressed their concern during a meeting in February 1981 over the aspirations of NATO to extend its activities outside Europe . |
| 25 | He pointed out that the Select Committee had found no material difference between Gothic and Classic and with regard to the incongruity of the styles : |
| 26 | Other leaders , like the Rev. Alexander Mackennal , pointed out that the original Separatists of the sixteenth century had not venerated that ‘ extravagant individualism against which we are now witnessing a somewhat excessive revolt ’ . |
| 27 | He pointed out that the structural basis of human behaviour must be rooted in the gregarious nature of primates and the potentialities thereby offered for the socialization of individual experience . |
| 28 | And he also pointed out that the three detectives were going to claim in their defence that the Birmingham Six were guilty all along . |
| 29 | Charles ' brother , John Arnett , pointed out that the main ingredients — wheatflour , sugar , sultanas and whole egg — could n't have been more traditional . |
| 30 | One of the major critics of the original Phillips curve was Milton Friedman , who pointed out that the main determinant of the demand for and the supply of labour is the expected real wage , and not the money wage ( see Ch. 2 ) . |