Example sentences of "[be] quick [to-vb] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Proponents of the view that Keynesian stabilization policies are futile have been quick to point out the key role that wage and price rigidity play in justifying such policies , and the need for advocates of such policies to provide some theory of why prices should be rigid in the way they claim they are . |
| 2 | Feminists have always been quick to point out the double standards which operate at virtually every level of discourse . |
| 3 | Sociologists have been quick to point out the obvious absurdity of this — without , of course , seeing the nonsensicality of their own position — and have rightly observed that no one is born into a vacuum , that cultures and the individuals within them vary , and that individual psychology is powerfully influenced by traditional and cultural factors of which a purely individualistic approach can not take account . |
| 4 | The Sanpro industry as a whole has been quick to wheel out the public relations machinery , and they 've gone to great lengths to reassure women that there really is n't any danger at all . |
| 5 | Other writers were quick to point out the inherent functionalism of this approach . |
| 6 | Engineers were quick to shore up the weakened Botley Road Flyover in Oxford as soon as they found corroded support wires in the spans . |
| 7 | Randal O'Toole , a forest economist based in Portland , Oregon , is quick to point out the disingenuous parts in the Forest Service proposal . |