Example sentences of "pointed [adv] that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be pointed out that a bigger tank may well be possible , but when the maintenance is going to suffer , and that is the major importance when dealing with larger fish which are usually messy feeders . |
| 2 | The narrator of the tale is made a rhetorician , apostrophizing both his audience : and one of his characters : It has been pointed out that a skilled mastery of the " idiom of popular poetry " , embodied in the witty appropriation of familiar poetic epithets such as hende , jolif and gent , which are used of Nicholas , Absolon and Alison respectively , is not simply a characteristic of Chaucerian style , but is especially exploited by Chaucer for this one tale . |
| 3 | But Davies also pointed out that a new programme of scientific research into fitness and conditioning had been launched by the WRU to bring the Welsh team up to the required standard for international rugby . |
| 4 | When Bukharin , in his speech to the Sixth Congress , emphasised that the Latin American Communist parties ‘ had an important role to play in the development of national and agrarian revolutions ’ , Brazilian delegate Fernando Lacerna somewhat tartly pointed out that a Communist movement had existed in Latin America since 1920 but it was only in 1928 that ’ the Communist International [ had ] shown its interest in Latin America for the first time ’ ( La Correspondance Internationale ( organ of the Communist International ) , 1928 , in Alba : 1964 , p. 188 ) . |
| 5 | Before leaving this section on metre , it must be pointed out that a musical setting could be written which deliberately avoided any metrical pulse at all . |
| 6 | It has been rightly pointed out that a quick ball from such a scrum does not necessarily lead to a running game and that the centre of the field , already bustling with activity due to the increased fitness and range of the modern player , would be clogged up with roaming loose forwards relieved of scrummage duties . |
| 7 | It should be pointed out that a deliberate knock-on can still be penalised by a penalty kick . |
| 8 | Allan Megill has pointed out that an alternative ‘ meaning ’ of the phrase is , ‘ there is no inserted plate ’ ( a French dictionary defines ‘ hors-texte ’ as ‘ Gravure , planche tirée á part et intercalée dans un livre ’ ) . |
| 9 | At the end of Chapter 3 it was pointed out that the 1960s had seen a series of reform proposals in British government and that by 1980 most of these had been carried out in some form though the question of devolution had still to be settled . |
| 10 | Sociologists have often pointed out that the various processes and outcomes of racial discrimination referred to above have produced a very distinctive location for black people in the British class structure . |
| 11 | However , it must be pointed out that the traditional explanation for the destruction of woodland from the late prehistoric period onwards to provide fuel for ironworking ( and salt boiling in the Midlands ) fails to take into account the fact that such activity is more likely to have engendered conservation and careful management of woodland resources rather than wholesale clearance . |
| 12 | Lastly , it needs to be pointed out that the rhetorical or argumentative dimensions are , from a theoretical point of view , universal ones . |
| 13 | Still , it should be pointed out that the average Soviet citizen 's contact with the courts was likely to be as unpolitical as that of his or her Western counterpart , and he or she was no more likely to be dealt with unjustly in the run-of-the-mill case ( Lane , 1985 , pp. 192–7 ) . |
| 14 | Similar words not derived in this way do not have the syllabic — it has been pointed out that the two words ‘ coddling ’ ( derived from the verb ‘ coddle ’ ) and ‘ codling ’ ( meaning ‘ small cod ’ , derived by adding the diminutive suffix ‘ -ling ’ to ‘ cod ’ ) show a contrast between syllabic and non-syllabic : ‘ coddling ’ and ‘ codling ’ . |
| 15 | Of course , it could be claimed that this was the same thing as : but it has been pointed out that the two versions are different in several ways . |
| 16 | AIthough it might be pointed out that the new spatial division of labour can produce divisions within regions as well as between them , in general this approach accords with the argument in section 2.5 that uneven development changes in its form as well as in its pattern between different historical periods . |
| 17 | Moreover , Tucker ( 1987 ) has pointed out that the first period of large-scale deforestation in northern India occurred in the 1850s and 1860s as the British colonisation of India gained momentum and railways were constructed to gain access to the upper Ganges and Indus plains . |
| 18 | It has also been pointed out that the ancient quarter of the city around the eastern gate took , as its own symbol , a black lion on a white background . |
| 19 | First , it is pointed out that the Labour and Conservative Parties secure seats in the Commons in numbers far larger than warranted by their voting strength in the country . |
| 20 | It has been pointed out that the legal protection of children 's welfare is not the same as the conferment of rights on children , since it presupposes that welfare agencies , judges and even parents would have the right to take decisions on the child 's behalf . |
| 21 | It has been pointed out that the modern ostrich and the Cretaceous Struthiomimus lived in the same sort of exposed habitat , and thus evolved similar bipedal running gaits . |
| 22 | It is pointed out that the extinct quagga , a zebra with much less striping , came from the far south of Africa where the climate is cooler and that the northern , stripeless horses also enjoy cooler weather . |
| 23 | I have already pointed out that the financial details of the transaction were , as I understand them , nothing like those suggested by the hon. Lady or her hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) . |
| 24 | Armed with the knowledge that 2 in 3 of the 4.6 million farmers over 55 years of age have less than 5 hectares , and that the community has about 2 million farmers who are over 65 , McSharry has pointed out that the economic viability of many such farms is constantly under threat and that the introduction of an early retirement scheme would help the small farmer and also reduce production . |
| 25 | Moreover , it is frequently pointed out that the early Christian definitions of faith did not mean by the Greek and Latin words that we commonly translate as ‘ person ’ exactly what we would mean by ‘ person ’ today . |
| 26 | I have pointed out that the early structuralists treated the discursive elements in their analysis as ‘ natural ’ , as empirically given . |
| 27 | They have pointed out that the correct approach will depend upon the particular facts involved . |
| 28 | It was pointed out that the official procedure for collating Garden computer equipment bids remained within the remit of cost centre managers , who are asked to submit supplementary estimates when making their own Departmental submissions . |
| 29 | It has been pointed out that the only propositions of which this is true are ‘ analytic ’ propositions — those that contain not statements of fact but rules about language . |
| 30 | It should be pointed out that the audio-lingual method group of theorists do not minimise the importance of giving grammatical rules . |