Example sentences of "[noun prp] pointed [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One would have thought that the Great Depression years in the United States had provided a suitable testing ground for the efficacy of the real-balance effect , but , as Patinkin pointed out at an early stage in the development of the neoclassical synthesis , a large increase in real balances appeared to be accompanied by a large fall in output . |
| 2 | That " No provision for the economic rehabilitation of Europe , " appeared was a profound weakness J. M. Keynes pointed out in The Economic Consequences of the Peace ( 1919 ) . |
| 3 | Visual illusions are an excellent illustration , in fact , of the division between a specialized and autonomous mechanism for seeing and the cognitive system which determines whether we should believe what we see , as Helmholtz pointed out over a century ago . |
| 4 | As Gorbachev pointed out in an interview in early 1991 , only about 30 per cent of the USSR 's boundaries had been legally defined . |
| 5 | Lever pointed out at the mountains . |
| 6 | But as Orton pointed out in the diary , as usual nothing came of it — not even after telling a man who tried to get in their way to ‘ piss off ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ It belonged to me all the same , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke pointed out with the authority of a monarch claiming a sturgeon . |
| 8 | ‘ It is not at all easy , ’ Alain pointed out with the same teasing that was beginning to set Jenna 's teeth on edge . |
| 9 | However , as Clementina Black pointed out at the end of her inquiry into married women 's work for the Women 's Industrial Council , some women worked when the family income was already adequate , because they prized their independence : ‘ A shilling of your own is worth two that he gives you ’ . |
| 10 | As Hilary Graham pointed out in the first edition of this book : |
| 11 | Mairowitz was , McGrath pointed out in an ‘ open letter ’ published in It , responsible for ‘ the pretty chicks ’ who appeared in the paper . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's rude to speak French when I ca n't understand what 's going on , ’ Alyssia pointed out in a high , clear voice . |
| 13 | As the Factory supremo Tony Wilson pointed out at the time , ‘ New Order are leading us into an age of passionate computer music ’ . |
| 14 | Selwyn Lloyd pointed out in the House of Commons , during a debate on the operations in the Oman , that Britain had to honour two types of obligation . |
| 15 | Billy pointed down into the valley . |
| 16 | As Robert Paul Wolff pointed out in an acute critique of conventional pluralism , it is easier and more plausible to urge compromise when it is interests rather than principles which are at stake . |
| 17 | As Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. pointed out during the course of argument , there is a difference between saying that ‘ a person is not a statutory tenant ’ and saying that ‘ a person is not a statutory tenant with all the rights to protection such a tenant can possess . ’ |
| 18 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |
| 19 | Lewis pointed down to the fast-flowing Cherwell . |
| 20 | In case such arguments failed , the king also reminded the commons frequently that the war had been undertaken with their consent and that this consent had from time to time been renewed , as Sir William Thorp pointed out in the parliament of 1348 . |
| 21 | ‘ And he 'd ruin it , ’ Jenny pointed out with a sigh . |
| 22 | It is , as Lord Renton pointed out in an address to this Society in 1990 , too much to ask that legislation should always be expressed simply ; for the complexities of modern life do not always admit of simplicity and we can not afford , in providing a code of conduct , to sacrifice certainty to simplicity . |
| 23 | As the battle bus pulled out of the crowd , Mr Major pointed out of the window and said : ‘ There , that 's what we 're up against . |
| 24 | As Dawkins pointed out in the passage quoted earlier , nerve impulses look pretty much the same whatever ‘ information ’ they are carrying . |
| 25 | As Gandhi pointed out at the time , Munich was a victory for Hitler 's violence , not for pacifist protest . |
| 26 | While Developments was being finalized there were , as Edwin Kerr pointed out to the institutions , other longer-term models being discussed . |
| 27 | Suddenly Thomas pointed up to the sky . |