Example sentences of "[noun prp] have point [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sigeric 's successor , Ælfric , recovered it , but N.P. Brooks has pointed out that other losses would have left no trace in the Canterbury records if they were not regained , and Thietmar of Merseburg says that Archbishop Ælfheah was unable to ransom himself in 1012 because of dire poverty . |
| 2 | Professor Gilbert Kelling has pointed out to me that , in certain circumstances , bedding planes can be produced by textural and diagenetic differences within " continuous sedimentation " . |
| 3 | In fact , as Mathias has pointed out , employers did not reduce wages when they wanted an increase in labour . |
| 4 | As Professor Mathias has pointed out , on the British side there was resort neither to penal levels of taxation nor to promiscuous paper-money inflation . |
| 5 | Here , as Professor Mathias has pointed out , aggregated receipts were at lev-els comparable to those of the government for civil expenditure . |
| 6 | Neal Zaslaw has pointed out a semantic correspondence to this : in German usage , the difference between ‘ old-fashioned church practices ’ and opera/concert practice ( dual-system ) was manifest in the two words tactieren ( literally , ‘ giving the tactus ’ ) and dirigieren . |
| 7 | As C. S. Coon has pointed out in regard to the world 's hunting peoples in general compared with urbanized people : |
| 8 | Nor should it be forgotten , as Professor Orth has pointed out , that in 1799 penalties were prescribed for the first time for workmen as a class , not for hatters or paper makers as a special group ; in other words , the language of the act was concerned with a horizontal social division , not with the reconciliation of difference within the vertical structure of a craft . |
| 9 | I am aware that residents have complained on several occasions about the parking of cars in Lakeside , particularly on the west side of the road , which Mr Howe has pointed out is common land . |
| 10 | As Boyce has pointed out , the credibility of the press ‘ lay in its apparent independence from the political party machine ’ even though its natural position ‘ was that of being part of the political machine ’ . |
| 11 | As Rosalind Rosenberg has pointed out , arguments based on female uniqueness paradoxically ‘ provided the biological affirmation that anti-feminists needed to oppose change and that feminists relied on to defuse the threat of change ’ . |
| 12 | The changing age structure of the mid eighteenth century significantly increased the number of dependent children in the population and , as Dr Cunningham has pointed out , explains the coexistence of the two views that child employment was desirable and that it was insufficiently available . |
| 13 | The feminist thinker Hélène Cixous has pointed out that this is a longstanding tradition of Western thought . |
| 14 | Richard Gombrich has pointed out that the idea of truth as an autonomous secular value has no firm base in Sinhalese village society . |
| 15 | As Alice Walker has pointed out , Blackwomen must read history for clues not facts , and it seemed essential to leave clues as to a more holistic range of our artistic pursuits . |
| 16 | As Judith Walkowitz has pointed out , in the districts where the Acts were enforced , petty theft , the seasonal migration of the poor into the countryside to pick hops and strawberries , and prostitution , were all means by which the chronically under-employed endured through hard times . |
| 17 | Professor Kaldor has pointed out that an increase in the note issue precedes the Christmas spending spree , to facilitate the extra demand for transactions balances , but the absence of such an increase would not prevent the spending boom . |
| 18 | As Dr Von Tunzelmann has pointed out , if the same price data are used , with the Lancashire wage data it would produce an increase in real wages from 1750 to 1780 of around 20 per cent , while with southern wage data a fall of around 15 per cent appears . |
| 19 | Intriguingly , in his third proposition in favour of the argument that women can be priested , Thomas himself comments that orders lie in the soul , which is the same for both sexes , a point to which curiously ( as George Tavard has pointed out ) he makes no reply . |
| 20 | In an article entitled ‘ Two Problems in Legal History ’ ( 1908 ) 24 L.Q.R. 392 , W. C. Bolland has pointed out that this was not only an order of the Sovereign but an Act by the Parliament , since it is in the Parliament Rolls and under the authority of Parliament . |
| 21 | As Freud has pointed out , however , children do not normally repress the thought of death , but are more likely to express it in fantasy . |
| 22 | All Welsh counties for instance are limited to increasing their budgets of one point seven on point seven five percent over nineteen ninety three , ninety four are as the cities of Cardiff and Swansea and the borough of Newport and it is this cap of one point seven percent as my honourable friend for Cardiff South and Penarth has pointed out , which is at the route of the funding problems of the South Wales police authority area . |
| 23 | I could also see the rock that Neil had pointed out to me , still half out of water . |
| 24 | ‘ With the result that he really did keep away , ’ Lucy had pointed out . |
| 25 | Arechaga had pointed out that the ability of the parties to confer a right on third parties subject to conditions is a legal strength , for it allows the creation of complex international regimes comparable to statutory regimes in municipal law . |
| 26 | There 's also a danger , as Patrick Earle 's pointed out , though it would be applied differently between different districts erm given erm that erm erm relative issues on unem unemployment and the economy will er differ between between districts . |
| 27 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 28 | But , as Hook has pointed out ( see Matza , 1964 , pp. 10–11 ) , in practice the two positions are virtually identical : both ‘ free choice ’ and ‘ unknown causes ’ manifest themselves in unpredictability . |
| 29 | Arguing against the project , the independent scholar Cesare d'Onofrio has pointed out that ‘ the proposed creation of an archaeological park would involve excavating down five to six metres below the present level and the creation of an immense basin stretching from the edge of Piazza Venezia and engulfing whole areas of the city up to the Porta Appia and beyond , embracing in its metal fences and walls not only the Forums , the Colosseum , the Domus Aurea , the Oppian and Coelian hills , the Circus Maximus etc. but , of necessity , a whole series of churches and medieval , Renaissance and baroque basilicas which would stand wrenched both from their historical context and from their place in the daily life of modern Rome ’ . |
| 30 | As Tom Regan has pointed out , there is a convergence between these causes over a great deal of the range . |