Example sentences of "[pers pn] pointed out [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I pointed out at the beginning of this judgment , the patient 's right of choice exists whether the reasons for making that choice are rational , irrational , unknown or even non-existent . |
| 2 | As I pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , education is on the threshold of a new era , which will have massive repercussions upon the issues of assessment and examination , with some of the proposed developments being viewed with considerably more apprehension than the GCSE was a couple of years ago . |
| 3 | I pointed out at the beginning that the Lindop committee had said that suspicions should be dealt with differently . |
| 4 | A disgraceful decision , as I pointed out at the time . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I pointed out to the ref that the boy had done nothing to warrant a caution at that stage . |
| 6 | Indeed I pointed out to the Court that one year earlier , at the time of the National Bank Dispute , the Bank of Ireland were at pains to separate the Bank Assistant 's Claim from the main Claim which they had always stated was debarred by the P.E.S.P. |
| 7 | Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing . |
| 8 | Strategic decisions urgently need to be taken since , as I pointed out in the very first of my articles for NSS in January 1991 , the British economy is now in grave peril . |
| 9 | Grammar , as I pointed out in the preceding chapter , can only go so far . |
| 10 | As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised . |
| 11 | As I pointed out in the original review , this causes a few problems like the inability to switch players . |
| 12 | The leader creates the parental role , the followers play the role of the children , and er , as I pointed out in the , in the lecture when I talked about that , often this is erm , explicitly indicated by symbolic terms , in groups , such as papa , erm , erm , whi which gives you the word pope . |
| 13 | She pointed out of the window . |
| 14 | We pointed out to the companies that they let the contracts , and could therefore require trade union representation as a condition of awarding them . |
| 15 | As we pointed out at the beginning of this campaign , the Labour Party proposes nothing less than to pull up Britain by the roots . |
| 16 | But as we pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , the courts are only one of a series– of filters regulating access to the criminal justice and penal processes and , as such , they are also affected by decisions taken elsewhere in the system . |
| 17 | As we pointed out in the last chapter , not only is the amount of redistribution to be undertaken by the government a pure value judgement on which different individuals and different political parties will disagree , but there is an inevitable trade-off between the competing objectives of efficiency and equity . |
| 18 | He pointed out to the magistrates that the people of the parish had previously been law-abiding , that riotous demonstrations and the destruction of property were rare , and even now were believed by many of the farmers and traders ( and the poor themselves ) to have been the work of gypsies . |
| 19 | It would be a good idea , he pointed out to the noble lord , to buy a large freehold estate and divide it into twelve , creating twelve new freeholders who would be entitled to a vote each because of the property qualification ; he hastened to add that he would personally make sure that only suitable Tory adherents were thus enfranchised . |
| 20 | Sol Wagner , an American sexologist , lecturing in Britain in 1977 , referred to the British as " obsessed " with sex ; and to some extent this is true , due as he pointed out to the double-thinking of those of us who retain inhibitions and hang-ups born of earlier years and the mixture of fascination and revulsion connected with sex which lies so deep in many of us . |
| 21 | Two miles further on , he pointed out of the window again at a field of cows , saying something in his unintelligible language . |
| 22 | We 'll need to conserve heat , and the best way to do that is to share the sleeping-bag , ’ he pointed out with the sort of logic that was unbeatable . |
| 23 | And there , ’ he pointed out past the Prince , ‘ the sun . ’ |
| 24 | He pointed out into the estuary . |
| 25 | But , as he pointed out in The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism ( 1933 ) with reference to abstract philosophizing , his mind was a ‘ heavy ’ one . |