Example sentences of "[adv] point [adv prt] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A sociology of the unconscious would not only point out the unintended consequences of social action , where these are grasped and comprehended in terms of conscious intentions which are then misunderstood , or reinterpreted , by other groups within the social relationships , and which result in outcomes which neither the original intender nor the others could have foreseen . |
| 2 | Peter Taylor , of the Political Ecology Research Group , has already pointed out the above-average numbers of cases of leukaemia in Barrow , Cumberland and Westmoreland , although he says ; ‘ Any link to the pattern of 1957 fallout can be ruled out because of the very low doses and the nature of the radioactivity . ’ |
| 3 | Being a nurse , she 's always pointing out the dire effects of too much caffeine . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps if I just quickly point out the main ones erm they have been amended in er , a later version of the document . |
| 5 | Dr Jaffery could still point out the faded murals which filled niches of the Drum House — pictures of Central Asian plants , he thought , put there to remind the Mughals of their TransOxianan homelands — but the painted and gilt ceiling of the audience hall has entirely disappeared , along with the awnings , the Kashmiri carpets , the solid silver railings and the magnificent Peacock Throne which , with its twelve pillars of emerald supporting a golden roof topped with two gilt peacocks ablaze with precious stones , was arguably the most dazzling seat ever constructed . |
| 6 | It was no accident , therefore , that Bukharin went on to point out the real advances already made by the Soviet economy , particularly in industry , during the preceding period . |
| 7 | Leopold went on to point out the obvious flaws in Wolfgang 's proposal to get an unknown 16-year-old singer accepted in Italy — the graveyard of many an aspiring career — and to accuse him of having betrayed his father 's trust . |