Example sentences of "[prep] pointing [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The Chancellor , the Financial Secretary to the Treasury , and the Prime Minister have the task of pointing out the financial realities of life to their colleagues . |
2 | The Ukraine suffered particularly heavy losses during the 1930s there was a devastating and , it is now accepted , largely man-made famine during the early part of the decade , and the republican leadership was badly affected by charges of ‘ nationalism ’ ( in practice , for pointing out the likely outcomes of central policies ) . |
3 | There is no doubt that this work has been enormously fruitful in pointing out the detailed strategies and rhetorical manoeuvres involved in the expression of racism . |
4 | The report was useful in pointing out the confused state of the Company 's knowledge of its charities , and certainly the generosity would have been impossible without rigorous financial control ( from 1810 to 1816 , for example , expenditure had exceeded income by £10,000 , largely because of the work on the Company 's almshouses at Acton ) . |
5 | Yet the fact that many primitive peoples regulate interpersonal relations with a fair degree of predictability and humanity , without the help of a centralized political system , is one that most anthropologists would now endorse ; however , unlike Engels , they do this without pointing out the political implications of such an observation . |
6 | To be fair , engineers are also impressed by the idea of harnessing the purifying capabilities of nature in this way , largely confining themselves to pointing out the real-world constraints on the wilder flights of fancy . |
7 | Once they realized that no presents could ever be exactly the same and that they could help him to take pleasure in his sister 's presents by pointing out the good features of one of her new toys to her they felt more confident in coping with his reactions . |
8 | Though Coleridge continued at the King 's School for several months , delighting his mother by pointing out the new master 's faulty knowledge of grammar , in April 1782 Francis Buller , a family friend and later an eminent judge , obtained for him a presentation to Christ 's Hospital in London ( the Blue Coat School ) , ‘ there to be educated , and brought up among other poor children ’ . |
9 | He had intended to sweep aside any reservations Kingdom might have about revealing a patient 's secrets by pointing out the overriding importance of finding Heather , but , instead , he had become meek and subdued , as if content to accept Kingdom 's judgement unreservedly on how much or how little he could divulge . |