Example sentences of "point out to " in BNC.
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| 1 | NO DOUBT I shall not be the first person to point out to your wine buff Malcolm Gluck ( Domaine Anthea ‘ 87 , et al , Food & Drink , October 28 ) that it was Althea — not Anthea — who received a note written from prison . |
| 2 | But they will be quick to point out to ministers that ‘ helping the poorest ’ can often lead to poverty and unemployment traps , as any state benefit aimed just at low-income households will discourage them from earning more or getting a job if it is withdrawn as soon as they do so . |
| 3 | Locke 's tentative suggestion about the possibility of thinking matter would have seemed to lead to atheism too ; but he was quick to point out to his critic , Edward Stillingfleet , that the suggestion that we might be purely material does not involve the denial of all spiritual immaterial beings ; if we are thinking matter , it needed a spiritual God to make us so . |
| 4 | Those letters would be bound to point out to Gina how badly she 'd treated him , telling her to reform and to save her marriage if they were religious , or else saying that she deserved it if he got someone else . |
| 5 | Having a saint handle the message or provide a heavenly poste restante seems therefore a wise precaution — for , as Catholics continually have to point out to unsympathetic Protestants , the saint is an agent furthering prayer , not its recipient . |
| 6 | For example , heads might want to point out to governors : |
| 7 | The wireless operator roused himself to point out to me a circle of pale pink rubble — literally not one brick left upon another — which was the town of Wesel . |
| 8 | He had meant to point out to John le Grant that they had both engaged in extremely rough play at Trebizond , and if he chose to carry out another war contract , he was not doing it blindfold . |
| 9 | It will have instructed the Parliamentary Draftsman on the preparation of the Bill ; he will have drafted it ( though probably not without returning to the department on a number of occasions for clarification of instructions or to point out to the department any legal or constitutional difficulties encountered in implementing the instructions ) . |
| 10 | But surely it is the duty of an influential paper like yours to point out to your readers the facts that marriage and ‘ scoring ’ babies are the cause of more nervous breakdowns , violence and jumping off tall buildings under the impression that you can fly than any other form of domestic arrangement . |
| 11 | A number of companies have gone to great pains to point out to the shareholders that the goodwill adjustment does not affect the company 's net asset value , but Company Reporting named a number of companies that have actively avoided showing the full extent of losses on disposal . |
| 12 | Furthermore , they were told to point out to the mother that LGS would not reduce the output of stool from the sick child , but was meant to prevent the dehydration associated with the diarrhoea . |
| 13 | The father pleaded with the elder brother and tried to point out to him that it was only right to celebrate for it was as if the younger son had come back to life from the dead . |
| 14 | And to point out to her now that she did n't know the right thing to do when visiting people like the Kirkleys would be , in a way , against the advice she had just given her , although it was n't to do with talking ; more like behaviour and deportment or some such . |
| 15 | I would just like to point out to anyone thinking of tackling the Lakeland Fells that a small guidebook alone is not a sufficient aid to path finding . |
| 16 | Once NT is installed in a NetWare LAN , Microsoft will have the opportunity to point out to users that NetWare ( especially pre-version 4 ) is largely superfluous . ’ |
| 17 | I wanted to point out to you , you know , we do n't want it to happen . |
| 18 | Dr Norman Davy used to point out to us and name the many different kinds of birds to be seen from the physics laboratory windows and I remember vividly the almost tangible stillness of those very early mornings when , on its roof , I whirled a hygrometer whilst recording the arrival of sound waves from gunfire at Shoeburyness in Essex . |
| 19 | Right , well I I part of me says , the the there are two aspects , the other side of the coin a little bit , if we talk about recording achievement and not recording failure , we here have an opportunity to point out to youngsters , encourage youngsters in that they are all capable of achieving in some way and to get them to write down that they have achieved , that 's the other side of the coin . |
| 20 | Of course , Mr. Glick was fully entitled to point out to your Lordships that the vast majority of cases concerned with the recovery of tax which is not due will indeed be covered by statutory provisions regulating the right of recovery ; he also suggested that , if it should be held that section 33 has no application in the present case , steps can easily , and may well , be taken at an early opportunity to bring cases such as the present , which are in any event likely to be very rare , within its ambit . |
| 21 | I er I tried to tell him He he tried to point out to me , he says , That er the average earnings you see of district inspectors you see ? |
| 22 | Mr. Gow : While recognising the undoubted right of all members of the General Synod to deeply held views for or against the policies of the present Government , would it be helpful if my right Hon. Friend were to point out to the General Synod that its reputation would be enhanced if its members , when in Synod , devoted more time to matters spiritual than to matter political ? |
| 23 | And I think it would be a good time now to , to point out to the to s to er to say that we 'd like to have our views heard at that time . |
| 24 | Thirdly , if you had refused , I would have told you I intended to point out to Kenamun that the door of the stall in which Merymose was found had been opened . |
| 25 | ‘ And , of course , ’ Alyssia said , laughing , ‘ you make it your duty to point out to them when they 're about to make a horrendous error of judgement ? ’ |
| 26 | They spent the rest of the afternoon in animated discussion — so animated that Folly had gently to point out to her employee that it was time to lock up . |
| 27 | After all , as you yourself were at pains to point out to me , you 're already well supplied with lovers . ’ |
| 28 | However , it seems we share a common purpose — to point out to our rebellious relatives the grief they are causing their families . |
| 29 | We recognised there was a need to ensure quality and consistency in everything we did , to be able to point out to our customers how we do things , and where necessary to be audited on these procedures . |
| 30 | A presentation to college lecturers by the British Hospitality Association 's contract catering panel , urged them to point out to students that career opportunities in the sector were excellent . |