Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] point [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Naturally she pointed out that she never sought this adulation , quite the opposite , and was frankly horrified by media attention . |
| 2 | The photos to the right illustrate a good weight transfer , while below we point out two indications of bad weight transference which will result in thinned shots . |
| 3 | But perhaps he pointed out to those village children the caddis fly ‘ on four fawn-coloured wings , with long legs and horns ’ ; and the dragonfly with ‘ eyes so large that they filled all its head , and shone like ten thousand diamonds ’ . |
| 4 | Nevertheless he points out that in Britain we appear to have industrial malaise , adversary politics and a society that is different in quality compared to other developed European countries . |
| 5 | Finally he pointed out to his mother that there were but two keys to the room and the Shills had one each . |
| 6 | The only thing that stopped them cutting us to ribbons was that one of my friends had the gift of the gab and gradually defused the situation by talking good sense in a calm reasonable way ; finally he pointed out that we would all end up in the local police cells if anything happened anyway . |
| 7 | Innocently I point out that we 'd better return the key to him , since if we leave the flat unattended he could say we stole his best furniture . |
| 8 | Moreover he pointed out that there is no principle in English law which says that anything which is inevitably in somebody 's head when they leave their employment is something which they are free to use . |
| 9 | No matter how carefully they pointed out that areas of low pressure almost always bring rain and high winds and plenty of cloud , it did n't help at all when Station Commanders and Navigation Officers specifically wanted clear skies and good visibility over their targets . |
| 10 | Also he pointed out that the portions of the castle most liable to be hit by missiles , especially the parapets and roofs , could be thickened in the masonry , and reinforced to good effect . |
| 11 | Now she pointed out how there were pictures in the trees . |
| 12 | Interestingly it pointed up one of the fundamental differences between the two of them . |
| 13 | Here she pointed dramatically at Henry 's flies . |
| 14 | Wearily he pointed out each stack . |
| 15 | Indeed I pointed out to the Court that one year earlier , at the time of the National Bank Dispute , the Bank of Ireland were at pains to separate the Bank Assistant 's Claim from the main Claim which they had always stated was debarred by the P.E.S.P. |
| 16 | More precisely he points out that while " the total number of Romans and allies able to bear arms was more than seven hundred thousand foot and seventy thousand horse , Hannibal invaded Italy with an army of less than twenty thousand men " ( 2.24.16–17 ) . |
| 17 | Then he points out that two enquiries by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission and the Office of Fair Trading have cleared the oil companies of malpractice . |
| 18 | Then he pointed up the slope . |
| 19 | And then he pointed out that he would need me to translate for him with students and the authorities . |
| 20 | I hope I do n't add to the confusion of the Borrowdale guidebook editions when I point out that their detailed account of what occurred on the first ascent of Prodigal Sons is in fact what happened on a totally different route named Déj ‘ a Vu . |
| 21 | Instead she pointed out what she thought was happening in the session and the need for all of them to look at the problems in a constructive way . |
| 22 | Did you not yourself say that our love must be holy ? ’ or when she pointed out that his ‘ lovely poems ’ would have been less lovely if she had not pro vided ‘ the unrest and storm that made them possible ’ : ‘ Beloved I will pray with my whole strength that suffering and temptation may be taken from you as they have been taken from me and that we may gain spiritual union stronger than earthly union could ever be . ’ |
| 23 | However they point out that most of the recent studies in Britain indicate that when linked to pre-course qualifications maturity is likely to be an advantage in Arts and Social Science subjects . |
| 24 | A former Labour Prime Minister got that far in his thinking in the 1970s when he pointed out that one could not have high inflation and lots of employment and that high inflation would reduce rather than increase the number of jobs . |
| 25 | Again he pointed out ‘ more marked differentiation of function ’ in higher types of primitive society . |
| 26 | It is getting into the position of an excellent prize of war ; strategically it points right into the heart of Japan and into the hands of an enemy it weakens the Japanese bastion of Western defence . |
| 27 | Miserably I point out that Cymbeline has not behaved well . |
| 28 | Specifically he points out that parsing is performance motivated and directional ( i.e. from surface to structure ) — the very opposite of the aims of competence theory . |