Example sentences of "points out [conj] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Another German military critic , Hermann Wendt , points out that no concentrated attempt was ever made to destroy any of the vital Meuse bridges .
2 He points out that a complex whole which contains principal and secondary contradictions will also contain relations of domination and subordination ( since the factors forming the principal contradiction will dominate those forming the subordinate contradiction ) , and argues that the presence of these characteristics in a complex whole is not merely a contingent matter , but a necessary one .
3 Curran points out that a rough woodland canopy is likely to be more affected by variations in the solar angle than is a smoother grassland canopy .
4 In 1833 , of 5,020 antislavery petitions the Wesleyans provided 1,953 and other nonconformist bodies 873 , though Drescher points out that a higher proportion of signatures came on community petitions .
5 The white paper points out that a higher coal burn by the electricity supply industry would mean that more stringent measures would be needed to limit emissions by other sectors , including transport .
6 As a guide , Christopher Cornell of KF&R 's Cirencester office points out that a top quality red deer stag is worth around £2-3,000 , a hind about £400-500 .
7 She points out that a 2.5 percentage point saving on the mortgage rate might easily be cancelled out by expensive compulsory insurance and a steep arrangement fee alone .
8 Prof Wilkinson points out that the international community might not decry unilateralist intervention provided that it approves of the outcome .
9 Now a left-leaning Solidarity MP with close ties to trade unionists , he points out that the only choice is between more recession and less recession .
10 But John Mann points out that the first test will be held in October , at the beginning of the school year when the majority of pupils will in fact , still be ten .
11 Commenting on the draft law , Russia'a new Deputy Minister of Culture , Tatyana Nikitina , points out that the new regulations will allow the export of works of art dating from the beginning of this century .
12 As a member of the legal profession , he points out that the three-year limitation period on claims for injury or death does not run out until a week tomorrow .
13 Norris points out that the lower jaw of the dolphin and many cetaceans is actually comprised of an extremely thin and expanded sheet of bone , possessing a minimum thickness varying from only 0.1 to 3 millimetres among the differently sized species .
14 Netto 's Mr Gundelach points out that the average operating margin of big British food retailers is around 6.5% ; the figure for discount stores is around 1% .
15 He points out that the young fellow or girl with only modest ‘ A ’ levels now has little choice : they have to do without — or go across the water .
16 He points out that the working classes consisted mainly of peasants forced off the land through extreme poverty .
17 He points out that the best people , like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin , started singing in gospel choirs not at music lessons .
18 Acia points out that the Eritrean approach emphasizes how the student can best relate to the overall needs of a society in which every individual is respected .
19 In going beyond Marx 's analysis of liberal capitalism , Habermas points out that the bourgeois ideology of ‘ just exchange ’ ( Habermas 1971 : 101 ) breaks down and with its collapse , political power requires a new source of legitimation .
20 In fact , Boltho points out that the greater part of the equalisation that has occurred in the EC since the 1950s is due to greater inter-country equality rather than greater intra-country equality , i.e. disparities have been reduced as nations as a whole have converged rather than regions within nations moving closer together .
21 Warburg Securities points out that the post-extraordinary eps figure ‘ will make the eps series extremely volatile for companies with major one-off items ’ .
22 Norris also points out that the complex system of internal air passages would prevent the production and reflection of random sounds — it is important for the dolphin not to confuse itself !
23 Hilary Wright , in an article on Violet Needham , points out that the various countries are ‘ clearly recognizable as pre-1914 Austria-Hungary , with contributions thrown in from France and the Netherlands ’ , and that it was a world in which Violet Needham had lived herself .
24 Althusser is emphatic that the means of production are just as essential to the fashioning of theoretical products as to something like shoemaking , which plainly requires leather , tools , etc. , and he points out that the Marxist concept of labour is in this sense irreducibly material .
25 Attacking the crude Marxist theory which treats history as a law-governed and predictable process , Trevor Roper points out that the Marxist historians failed to predict the rise of fascism .
26 Dr Hardiman of Stirling points out that the Veterinary Record 's formula for estimating the weight is , if not necessarily a bummer , slightly flawed .
27 In fact , Petrey points out that the main significance of Austin 's work stems from his concentration on illocutionary force and ( although this is completely implicit ) he seems to think that Austin 's theory is essentially a pragmatic one .
28 Goody points out that the written form of language releases us from the linear experiential mode : ‘ the fact that it takes a visual form means that one can escape from the problem of the succession of events in time , by backtracking , skipping , looking to see who-done-it before we know what it is they did .
29 Professor Sharp points out that the English bird with a white tail is called a wheatear .
30 Auber points out that the minor inconsistencies can cause the user confusion and makes a plea for standardization .
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