Example sentences of "[adv] points [adv prt] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Porter also points out the importance of defining the SBU in terms of the complete network of a value chain within a corporate group irrespective of what that includes in terms of operations in different divisions . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 … ) . |