Example sentences of "to point out the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Vineyardlaced fields are brilliant and vibrant in promise and delivery ; dusky grey-green olive groves dress the hillsides and pines and cypresses appear to point out the landscape . |
| 2 | Randall for the London Board did not fail to point out the contrast between this and his own refusal of central funds for standardisation ( for which there was in fact a far sounder economic case ) . |
| 3 | However , a sympathetic and patient GP would not have required great imagination to point out the disparity between such claims by these women and their ability to perform family and household tasks based on the evidence of their behaviour . |
| 4 | Critics of Indian prisons have continued for years to point out the incongruity of attempting to run an avowedly ‘ correctional ’ prison system with structures , rules and physical conditions created for quite different purposes . |
| 5 | Manufacturers have been quick to point out the drink 's advantages over ordinary milk : it contains no cholesterol , has a low fat content and is high in alkali . |
| 6 | Talking exclusively to the NME about the background to the song , songwriter Tim London said : ‘ Claire 's Kitchen ’ is based on an interesting rumour , but is really there to point out the hypocrisy of a political party that has championed so-called family values , whilst indulging in the biggest spate of shagging around since The Beatles . |
| 7 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 8 | As he does that , he is able to point out the way that Jesus is their liberator , from the limitations of being in such a net , to the freedom of a fish with a whole ocean to enjoy . |
| 9 | Thersites has a duty in the play : to point out the egotism of the warriors , and the reality behind their ‘ valiant ’ exteriors . |
| 10 | It is scarcely necessary to point out the inadequacy and sexism of this picture — in which women 's own collective labour as gatherers or tenders of gardens is entirely overlooked — and its inapplicability to many of the cultures in which sex-exclusive linguistic markers are found . |
| 11 | It is , indeed , a great deal easier to point out the irrelevance of much of what is happening at the moment than to have confidence in any particular alternative . |
| 12 | I had neither the patience nor the German to point out the contradiction in his argument . |
| 13 | Even if we tried , Professor Burney is bound to point out the connection , in his report to the coroner . |
| 14 | To point out the difference between their conceptions of class is , in consequence , simply to state a more fundamental problem . |
| 15 | But it sits long enough for me to point out the difference between the two species . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , my right hon. Friend is right to point out the role that we can play , where countries come together on issues , whereas on other issues — certainly on major critical and substantial issues — they must retain absolute national sovereignty in the development of their own foreign policies . |
| 17 | Yet such a comment may need to be made , nevertheless , to point out the quality of a picture . |
| 18 | Just as it would be inexact to draw an absolute contrast between the agendas of private subversion and public conformity , so too it would be a failure of record not to point out the relation between electoral behaviour and discussion of policy and government . |
| 19 | The heading for this section looks like a play on words , but it is intended to point out the fact that , while development control is one of the instruments by which planning policies are implemented , there are also policies relating to the actual operation of the control . |
| 20 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 21 | But I would like to point out the county council point of view on both a site or a criteria based policy . |