Example sentences of "point to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Philip Roth is right , however , to point to the limitations of the book , and to point to a law of Levi 's work in general : the less imaginary it is , the more imaginative — the more literal the better . |
| 2 | Philip Roth is right , however , to point to the limitations of the book , and to point to a law of Levi 's work in general : the less imaginary it is , the more imaginative — the more literal the better . |
| 3 | We told the child that there was a chocolate in one of the boxes and that he had to point to one of them — guessing of course — to tell the experimenter where to look for the chocolate . |
| 4 | If we told them to point to the empty box they would do so ; but would revert to pointing to the baited box again on the next trial . |
| 5 | To its opponents , who often complain that the Roman Catholic Church gives SPUC an unfair advantage — an automatic communication network — it is quick to point to the feminist movement , trade union affiliations and Labour Party pro-abortion campaigns which it says ignore the views of the membership . |
| 6 | West Germany has so far denied , although with a detectable degree of ambiguity , that any deal was made , preferring to point to the humanitarian reasons for allowing an evacuation of the embassy , and the pressure supposedly exerted on East Germany by the Soviet Union to bring the occupation to a speedy end . |
| 7 | We are very pleased to be able to point to increased co-operation and liaison with other Service charities . |
| 8 | There the Church 's work is to point to Jesus the Messiah and his death , and to sin , and to judgement . |
| 9 | The combination seems to point to some underlying form of ‘ essential history ’ of which each individual provides his variant but which can only be hinted at , not revealed , because when the voices join across time they never quite marry , though their coming together is an attempt to generate something which like a collective emotion is necessarily felt as something more than the experience of the individual , as something dominant and external' . |
| 10 | Though , that last phrase seems to point to Germany and Italy , Eliot also draws attention to dangerous mass ‘ cults ’ in Britain , which ‘ has been highly industrialized longer than any other country ’ . |
| 11 | On the other hand critics of the consensus within the Labour and the Conservative parties are more likely to point to the failures of political will , courage , persistence , and policy preparation by their respective leaderships as explanations for the convergence . |
| 12 | Although overall this view is still widely held , it is possible to point to several cases of reversal when , for example , agriculturalists reverted to hunting and gathering . |
| 13 | Logic would seem to point to car numbers never reaching the astronomic figures produced by the analysts . |
| 14 | How I longed for the ruler to point to me ! |
| 15 | It will be sufficient for our purposes to point to a few of the features of the chapter as we have it . |
| 16 | As a result , the completed exercise often seems to point to a lack of proper balance . |
| 17 | The very empathy ( charity in the broadest and best sense of the word ) with which he observes his characters seems to point to a better way forward . |
| 18 | When Marshall and his CEGB colleagues appeared before the 1984 Commons Environment Committee they were able to point to the vague Alkali Laws to justify their position . |
| 19 | I shall also attempt with Dorothy Heathcote , as I have with the other pioneers , to point to innovations or assumptions which are implicit in her work and which she herself may not have articulated . |
| 20 | What is beyond doubt is that just as much as the nuclear scientists have tried to point to a superficially clean industrial process , symbolized by the white Windscale coats , so the public 's fear has centred on the insidious threat of its invisible touch . |
| 21 | It is not , however , for me to judge the issue here , but only to point to what is involved in such a judgment . |
| 22 | Suffice it here to point to what we can call a third , or micro- , level of decision making , the other two being the level of allocating as between health and , for example , defence ; and the other , between different sections within health care . |
| 23 | The natural sciences were once used to point to what we meant by objective information , but quantum physics , for example , has shown that even observing situations can alter them . |
| 24 | The research is still continuing but conclusions to date seem to point to the fact that , although powers of reasoning are not necessarily enhanced , the speed at which the subject is able to reason or recall certainly is . |
| 25 | Nor is it enough to point to other facets of the book provision system , such as the reservations service or staff relationships with readers , as a palliative . |
| 26 | The service may be asked , for example , to provide the exact wording of a piece of legislation to support a tribunal hearing , to clarify confusing items or to point to where in the information system an item may be found . |
| 27 | In exploring this problem , it is common to point to two basic types of social control or restraint . |
| 28 | It is difficult to point to the material goals which football hooligans or juvenile delinquents are chasing . |
| 29 | We will be able to point to those aspects of the enforcer 's experiences which justify their view . |
| 30 | The purpose of this chapter is to provide several basic wordlists , to point to where more detailed lists ( other than in dictionaries ) may be found , and to comment on certain aspects of orthography . |