Example sentences of "pointing [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lunge whip is carried in the outside hand , pointing down the back . |
| 2 | His letters of 1871 are scattered with remarks pointing up the contrast : on the one side " our German mission " and " old Germanic health " , on the other " that fatal anti-cultural Prussia " and " our whole threadbare culture " . |
| 3 | ‘ He 's heading north up there , ’ said Moxon , pointing up the Finchley Road . |
| 4 | He rubbed the back of his hand across his eyes , then stood up impatiently as two of the Moi who had been scouting the region while they rested rushed into the clearing and began chatting excitedly to Devraux , pointing back the way they had come . |
| 5 | They revolve freely on their stainless steel spindle , with your chosen character pointing out the direction from which the wind is blowing . |
| 6 | With Swoon 's poised black-and-white images , which blend low-budget experiment , MTV edits and archive footage , they take that myth apart with remarkable assurance , pointing out the effects of sexual intolerance and the way Leopold and Loeb were scapegoated , but also showing how the crime was part of the sexual power play of their relationship . |
| 7 | I have just read the article in November 's Today 's Horse on gadgets by Carolyn Henderson and I would like to say that in my opinion she has done a very good job pointing out the dangers of people with their own horses who resort to gadgets to get an outline and not to time and schooling . |
| 8 | That , and the fact that Rick 's Cafe , in the Hyatt Regency Hotel , was built more than a dozen years after Bogart 's death , does not prevent taxi drivers from pointing out the building ‘ where the movie was made ’ and indicating the top floor suite ‘ where he wooed Ingrid Bergman ’ . |
| 9 | Shulamith Firestone undoubtedly did everyone a great service by vigorously extending this notion to women , and pointing out the absurdity of men 's viewing themselves as totally detached individuals in relation to the rest of society , while still expecting to go home to a wife who would always have their dinner hot for them in the evening . |
| 10 | Self , in pointing out the difficulties of building political theory on the basis of the assumption that man is exclusively egoistic , finds Niskanen 's theory to be ‘ empirically false on each main point ’ . |
| 11 | Instead of pointing out the errors you may be told that it is very good but have been better in a darker wood ! |
| 12 | And I promise not to embarrass you in front of the paying public by pointing out the mildew on your roses . ’ |
| 13 | After bluntly pointing out the shortcomings of the existing system , the Royal Commission recommended a restructuring in which the criminal and civil work of the High Court would be separated . |
| 14 | The first of these , the statistical test controversy , arose in the 1950s when a group of American scholars vigorously attacked the use of such tests , pointing out the difficulty of surveys meeting the strict mathematical requirements demanded by the statistical theory , especially those to do with randomness . |
| 15 | Please take a look in your own back yard before pointing out the mess in others ' . |
| 16 | Er where the report has been pointing out the cost , not just in financial terms , but in terms of , of hurt and unhappiness of a home breaking up , a family breaking up . |
| 17 | He is now a forgotten man who will while away his twilight years alone and insecure in an alien land , longing to return to Russia.The KGB has not been slow to remind its senior intelligence personnel of the isolated lifestyle that awaits them in the West should they be tempted to defect , pointing out the benefits of enjoying a relatively luxurious and secure existence in Russia . |
| 18 | Anne and Chris did n't want to return full time to stressful teaching jobs when their maternity leave ended , so together they sent in a joint application for a full-time position with a covering letter pointing out the benefits of job sharing , and the way they could organize their week and their timetable . |
| 19 | She remembered how Douglas , her new stepfather , had taken pleasure in showing her round Lomond View , pointing out the paintings , the antiques , the porcelain , the like of which she had never seen before . |
| 20 | Tommaso , Rosalba , Caterina , and everyone on the periphery had stood like markers on the map , pointing out the course he must follow , the way to the quarry , to fight with Tommaso . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's less threatening for men to lump women together and deal with them as one , rather than pointing out the differences . ’ |
| 22 | Pointing out the differences between them it added : ‘ And now ? |
| 23 | But perhaps the most striking of all the devices are the frequent self-conscious comments made by the author , laying bare his devices precisely by pointing out the differences between fabula and syuzhet , as , for example , in the following : In Tristram Shandy ( and in the O. Henry stories discussed in another essay by Eikhenbaum ) the devices are laid bare to such an extent that there remains hardly any motivation for the much diminished fabula . |
| 24 | The Senior Management Team quickly returned to their former stance , however , pointing out the possibility of the Head of Department achieving status within the Art teaching fraternity in the LEA : |
| 25 | pointing out the evidence that you think is inadmissible and any reasonable will the police officer does n't refer to it . |
| 26 | Talking can often get us out of sticky situations : talking sense to somebody , calming an explosive situation , giving the person a chance to back off without losing pride , or even pointing out the consequences or pointlessness of the whole exercise . |
| 27 | The 1840 Preface to The Chronicles of Crime ; or The New Newgate Calendar indicates a new ‘ moral ’ tone — ‘ Chronicles of Crime must comprise details , not only interesting to every person concerned for the welfare of society , but useful to the world in pointing out the consequences of guilt to be equally dreadful and inevitable ’ . |
| 28 | In 1958 , Eliot was still pointing out the horror of a civilization whose materialism is ‘ simply boredom ’ . |
| 29 | Editor , — R J Jarrett has put forward the epidemiologist 's view of gestational diabetes , pointing out the lack of a clear definition , the lack of consensus on treatment , and evidence suggesting that maternal glycaemia is not important in determining fetal size . |
| 30 | By first establishing a formal highpoint , the critics are then able to look down upon the content , ‘ objectively ’ pointing out the division which they claim exists ( which in fact they have helped to construct ) between the two . |