Example sentences of "pointed [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visual illusions are an excellent illustration , in fact , of the division between a specialized and autonomous mechanism for seeing and the cognitive system which determines whether we should believe what we see , as Helmholtz pointed out over a century ago . |
| 2 | One would have thought that the Great Depression years in the United States had provided a suitable testing ground for the efficacy of the real-balance effect , but , as Patinkin pointed out at an early stage in the development of the neoclassical synthesis , a large increase in real balances appeared to be accompanied by a large fall in output . |
| 3 | ‘ And he 'd ruin it , ’ Jenny pointed out with a sigh . |
| 4 | Thus , it may be desirable to draw a patient 's attention to any inconsistency between his expressed attitudes and his actual behaviour ( e.g. a therapist pointed out to a patient that the latter insisted that he wished to tackle some problem in his home yet arranged to go out every evening with his friends ) . |
| 5 | Even at the point of entry there was overcrowding , and in 1786 an officer pointed out to a correspondent that ‘ the ship is allowed but two midshipmen , and we have sixteen gentlemen on board who are rated able seamen & captain 's servants ’ . |
| 6 | You 're very fortunate , as I pointed out to a group yesterday . |
| 7 | The Law Commission pointed out in a report in April that the use of computers has greatly facilitated the ability to plan and implement in one country a fraud that has its deleterious effect in another . |
| 8 | As Sir Robert Armstrong , former Cabinet Secretary , pointed out in a recent court case , economy of truth and interpretation plays an important part in how the behaviour of MI5 is determined . |
| 9 | But the effect of the policy , as the American Bar Association pointed out in a recent report , is that the country 's prisons are filled not only with drug-handlers but also with drug-takers , and can not cope with the numbers . |
| 10 | The Mental Health Act Commission pointed out in a discussion paper in 1986 that guardianship ‘ has been so little used that its potential is untried ’ . |
| 11 | Mary Alston , arguing the case for a pay rise , pointed out in a speech as early as 1922 that It may be that prior to 1914 , women were employed in book composing only , but we must not forget the introduction of monotypes diverted hand labour to other channels correcting , making up and so forth , and in every large office today , not to speak of the small ones , we find women compositors setting , making up , doing author 's corrections and in some offices making ready for machine . |
| 12 | As we pointed out in a tailpiece to this chapter in the first edition , the CNAA announced in June 1979 a modification of validation procedures for public sector institutions offering its courses . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's rude to speak French when I ca n't understand what 's going on , ’ Alyssia pointed out in a high , clear voice . |
| 14 | ‘ Well , you 're not tied down to a commitment of any sort , ’ she pointed out in a dry tone . |
| 15 | As Robert Paul Wolff pointed out in an acute critique of conventional pluralism , it is easier and more plausible to urge compromise when it is interests rather than principles which are at stake . |
| 16 | As Gorbachev pointed out in an interview in early 1991 , only about 30 per cent of the USSR 's boundaries had been legally defined . |
| 17 | It is , as Lord Renton pointed out in an address to this Society in 1990 , too much to ask that legislation should always be expressed simply ; for the complexities of modern life do not always admit of simplicity and we can not afford , in providing a code of conduct , to sacrifice certainty to simplicity . |
| 18 | As the Western Mail pointed out in an article just days after the Braer tragedy , fragile marine inhabitants in Wales are at daily risk of a similar spill , since around 4,000 tankers a year ply their trade in and out of the giant Milford Haven refinery . |
| 19 | Mairowitz was , McGrath pointed out in an ‘ open letter ’ published in It , responsible for ‘ the pretty chicks ’ who appeared in the paper . |
| 20 | The leader of the Rally for Democracy and National Unity ( RDUN ) , Ahmed Mokhtar Sidi Baba , pointed out in an open letter to the CMSN that 200 of the country 's 208 mayors were PRDS supporters . |
| 21 | Kazakhstan 's President Nazarbayev , however , pointed out in an interview after the close of the summit that no executive or supervisory bodies had been set up to monitor the implementation of the agreements reached there . |