Example sentences of "point [adv prt] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | points up at the low ceiling with a cry : |
| 2 | His father was pointing down at the rocks . |
| 3 | He had managed to find the General , but with one eye pointing up at the sky and the other angled down at his nose , there was little scope for effective communication . |
| 4 | Paul asked Stephen , pointing up at the beam . |
| 5 | They leaned close momentarily then began to come forward again , slowly , looking about them , the first of them pointing up at the ruined monastery . |
| 6 | Costs do rise , as you are careful to point out at the start of the feature , but there can be no excuse for the blatant abuse of the costings given . |
| 7 | We would therefore encourage the use of the described radiation protection devices , whilst pointing out at the same time that the usual high standards for prevention of ingestion , inhalation or skin absorption of radioactive compounds should still , of course , be maintained . |
| 8 | As Mandy Merck points out at the beginning of an acute and informative summary , in recent times the theory of sexual difference has exerted a profound influence on psychoanalytically inspired cultural analysis ( ‘ Difference and its Discontents ’ , 2 ) . |
| 9 | As was pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , they shared classical criminology 's view that the purpose of penal practice was effective crime control . |
| 10 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 11 | As pointed out at the beginning of this section , some of the interesting responses that arise on applying somewhat larger sinusoidal e.m.f.s to nonlinear resistive circuits such that the signal behaviour is governed by the nonlinear relation have been considered in section 5.9 . |
| 12 | In paragraphs two onwards , I give the names of the local governments staff commission , erm , what their statutory it is , and can I just point out at the bottom of the page , paragraph five , please remember that the staff commission is advisory and it has in itself no mandatory powers . |
| 13 | He studied him a moment , intently , almost fiercely , then pointed up at the overhead camera . |
| 14 | He used his stick and pointed up at the grim-featured totem-poles . |
| 15 | She turned round and pointed back at the Victorian building with the campanile chimney . |
| 16 | As we pointed out at the beginning of this campaign , the Labour Party proposes nothing less than to pull up Britain by the roots . |
| 17 | As the Factory supremo Tony Wilson pointed out at the time , ‘ New Order are leading us into an age of passionate computer music ’ . |
| 18 | No one pointed out at the time that radio , like other media of mass communication , leaves the audience with the choice of looking elsewhere . |
| 19 | As Gandhi pointed out at the time , Munich was a victory for Hitler 's violence , not for pacifist protest . |
| 20 | Philip of Valois 's claim , however , had the virtues of clarity and logic , whereas Edward 's claim , as French lawyers pointed out at the time and French historians have not hesitated to remark since , rested on the unsatisfactory assumption that a woman could transmit a right which she could not exercise . |
| 21 | But as we pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , the courts are only one of a series– of filters regulating access to the criminal justice and penal processes and , as such , they are also affected by decisions taken elsewhere in the system . |
| 22 | As I pointed out at the beginning of this judgment , the patient 's right of choice exists whether the reasons for making that choice are rational , irrational , unknown or even non-existent . |
| 23 | Lever pointed out at the mountains . |
| 24 | However , as Clementina Black pointed out at the end of her inquiry into married women 's work for the Women 's Industrial Council , some women worked when the family income was already adequate , because they prized their independence : ‘ A shilling of your own is worth two that he gives you ’ . |
| 25 | As environmentalists pointed out at the time of the Shetlands disaster , there is a degree of hypocrisy in expressing outrage at the spillage when such accidents are the price we seem prepared to pay for access to oil . |
| 26 | As I pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , education is on the threshold of a new era , which will have massive repercussions upon the issues of assessment and examination , with some of the proposed developments being viewed with considerably more apprehension than the GCSE was a couple of years ago . |
| 27 | I pointed out at the beginning that the Lindop committee had said that suspicions should be dealt with differently . |
| 28 | An employee of the Ministry of Finances pointed out at the beginning of 1856 that Russia 's lowest social groups were far more heavily taxed than their counterparts in other countries . |
| 29 | A disgraceful decision , as I pointed out at the time . ’ |