Example sentences of "points [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laverne points down the bank on the other side of the road . |
| 2 | Christmas time , when party-giving is on the whole overdone , may make the social aridity of the rest of the year seem almost attractive , but this exhausting seasonal overswill also points up the ordinary isolation that obtains for most of us nowadays . |
| 3 | This points up the possibility that the organizational differences built into the preliminary study may be only surface ones , masking ‘ deeper ’ structures of thinking about the nature of social work . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , the example points up the paradox of the advantage to the teacher of having to experience new learning alongside and in co-operation with the children , and yet at the same time having to be an expert in the subject . |
| 5 | PHILIP ROBINSON 'S illustration points up the differences . |
| 6 | Such an approach 's insistence on dealing with non-traditional , non-objective methods points up the ambiguities which characterize psychological methods , in a persistent and useful way . |
| 7 | But it is possible to describe the commonalities between these feminist psychologies , in a way which points up the importance of the associative approach for feminist psychology in general . |
| 8 | Such work makes an association between psychological writing and apparently non-psychological narrative forms , which points up the ubiquitous but usually denied role of these forms in psychological discourses.i |
| 9 | ‘ Full many a glorious morning ’ has been ruined and disgraced by ‘ the basest clouds ’ : They ‘ may ’ stain : the ambiguity of the verb ( ‘ it can happen ’ ; ‘ it is allowed ’ ) points up the ambivalence of feeling , for the poem is clearly another example of a strategy we have already found in the Mistress poems , an apparent exculpation which is in fact an indictment . |
| 10 | Richardson is not uncritical of his subject or the paintings , particularly the blue period works , and certainly points up the variable quality of the paintings of the earliest years , where fully-fledged masterpieces were mixed in with hastily produced or rather gauchly sentimental pieces . |
| 11 | It points up the importance of admissions , and suggests that the assessment of a course may ‘ wash back ’ on its content and aims . |
| 12 | The strength of neo-elitism is best seen against the background of pluralism ; as a critique of pluralism it introduces the concept of non-decision-making and points up the failure of pluralist methods to define properly what is meant by the term ‘ key issues ’ . |
| 13 | doctrine of original sin under the guise of a genetically determined bio-grammar of cultural values , by colleagues who would clearly like to think of themselves as hard-boiled scientific rationalists , both amusing and disconcerting ; but it points up the difficulties of the problem ! |
| 14 | The hon. Member for Barrow and Furness ( Mr. Franks ) in the course of an extremely lengthy spech did not answer the question asked by my hon. Friend the Member for Islington , North ( Mr. Corbyn ) about fourth , fifth , sixth , seventh and eighth Trident nuclear submarines , which only points up the fact that this nation needs a programme of conversion from arms manufacture to material for peaceful purposes . |
| 15 | The way he expressed it , quaint to us today , nevertheless neatly points up the dilemma : If one government has a right to require that children be religiously educated , so has another , so have all ( whether … in Constantinople Islamism , or Pekin Confucionism … ) . |
| 16 | Since the story has a happy ending , Fallon points up the effectiveness of extra police manpower and resources funded by the government . |
| 17 | The programme does not apportion blame , or claim a conclusive link , but it points up the lack of long-term monitoring on people working with the chemicals , and suggests warning labels on the products do not always make clear what type of protective clothing is suitable . |
| 18 | However , most two pack systems , similar to our own Wood Bleach , do not contain any acid and as Mr Leach himself points out the ‘ A ’ solution is usually a strong alkaline . |
| 19 | Mr Gilchrist points out the strategic difference between the Abbey and the Guardian distribution . |
| 20 | The EC markets are closely linked , points out the Meat and Livestock Commission , and , although the sudden , sharp fall in UK prices was largely irrespective of other European markets , a similar move in Continental prices was expected within a short time . |
| 21 | He 's extremely cheerful , if somewhat misguided , as he points out the many features of the room , and mentions that the public rooms in the Cottage will be opened at seven o'clock . |
| 22 | JOHN JAY ( ’ The fall-out from Labour ’ , March 29 ) correctly points out the shortsightedness of withdrawing tax relief on private medical insurance — but , by using figures from only one insurer , he has grossly underestimated the flaw in Labour 's arithmetic . |
| 23 | He knows every corner and brick of the cathedral and points out the glories of the 11th-century ( Romanesque ) triforium with its later , inferior , 14th-century equivalent : ‘ You do see , do n't you ? ’ |
| 24 | He points out the surprising truth that an accurate random sample of 1,000 people will work whether it is taken from a population of 5,000 , five million or 50 million . |
| 25 | She also points out the importance of the older person having some privacy however dependent he or she becomes , with a room that can double as a sitting room and includes , if possible , TV , electric kettle , cups , and so on , so that there is an independent place to be . |
| 26 | The report points out the dominance of Britain 's big firms in the area of industrial R&D . |
| 27 | He also points out the song 's crucial omission , astonishing in a work of the protest movement : Dylan never says that Zantzinger is white and Hattie Carroll black , and forces the listener to assume that she was because of everything we are told about her : her name , that she had ten children , her position as a maid who ‘ did n't even talk to the people at the table ’ and , more tendentiously , because of what was done to her and the mild punishment meted out to her murderer who ‘ at 24 years/Owns a tobacco farm of 600 acres ’ . |
| 28 | In his teaching , Jesus points out the importance of firm foundations for the stability of our lives . |
| 29 | The IRB professes to be the body administering world rugby , but the need for the existence of FIRA points out the IRB 's failure to take a truly world view of the game . |
| 30 | The consultation document for the Synod , called the Lineaments , points out the link between this Synod and the previous two Synods . |