Example sentences of "[prep] pointing out the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead of pointing out the errors you may be told that it is very good but have been better in a darker wood ! |
| 2 | The 1840 Preface to The Chronicles of Crime ; or The New Newgate Calendar indicates a new ‘ moral ’ tone — ‘ Chronicles of Crime must comprise details , not only interesting to every person concerned for the welfare of society , but useful to the world in pointing out the consequences of guilt to be equally dreadful and inevitable ’ . |
| 3 | Self , in pointing out the difficulties of building political theory on the basis of the assumption that man is exclusively egoistic , finds Niskanen 's theory to be ‘ empirically false on each main point ’ . |
| 4 | But , in pointing out the inequities in the situation , the CEOs have raised a dust storm that seems to obscure other important issues relating to corporate auditing and accounting . |
| 5 | But perhaps the most striking of all the devices are the frequent self-conscious comments made by the author , laying bare his devices precisely by pointing out the differences between fabula and syuzhet , as , for example , in the following : In Tristram Shandy ( and in the O. Henry stories discussed in another essay by Eikhenbaum ) the devices are laid bare to such an extent that there remains hardly any motivation for the much diminished fabula . |
| 6 | In the immediate post-war years there was an attempt to absolve the bureaucracy of responsibility for externally aggressive and internally repressive policies , by pointing out the ways in which bureaucrats had tried to hold back military excesses . |
| 7 | Offer an escape route , by pointing out the whereabouts of the toilet , if you notice a particular member is looking exceptionally bad . |