Example sentences of "point to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What you fear most is an opponent who will point to a few simple but undeniable facts , and this is why the economists , and above all that wonderful race of men the economic journalists great and small , are such indispensable allies to the politician : they enable the politician to fog up what he is doing , so as to escape the blame and often even criticism for his actions . |
| 2 | Why does it seem important that the answer should have some ‘ objective ’ quality about it , an insight into history , society , knowledge , rather than point to a merely personal obsession ? |
| 3 | Thus , although the Labour movement has had no great success in squeezing the capitalists until the pips squeak , its leaders can point to a variety of real improvements in the living standards of the working class as good reason for continued support for their moderating policy . |
| 4 | Wasps , though , can point to a mighty league record — in four seasons they have been champions , second ( twice ) and third . |
| 5 | The conclusion of the poem does , however , point to a repudiation of sexual passion : |
| 6 | You can not point to a wave and say , ‘ that is the wave I rode ’ , as you can say , ‘ that is the mountain I climbed ’ . |
| 7 | The government can , admittedly , point to a sharp increase in the number of people who own shares . |
| 8 | It follows that Gandhi 's view of symbols differs somewhat from that of Tillich in the sense that they do not point to a hypostasized Ultimate . |
| 9 | No mean guitar player and bassist himself , Stephen can point to a collection of guitars which simply do n't get used often enough . |
| 10 | This may point to a powerful repressed feeling which we fear will overwhelm us . |
| 11 | But while the company 's management would not deny an element of luck , they would also point to a good deal of contingency planning that enabled them to react faster than anyone else to ILG 's collapse . |
| 12 | Stalking through the dark rooms she would suddenly stop and point to a fireplace — ‘ William de Morgan , those tiles . |
| 13 | However , we can point to a good deal of information on the effectiveness of signing in communication and in various aspects of language development ( Moores , 1978 ; Quigley , 1979 ) . |
| 14 | At the same time , such rhetoric does point to a very real difference . |
| 15 | Schools seem less reluctant to accept that the difficulties some children experience may well point to a more general problem in school or classroom interaction ; and teachers who have been helped to respond more appropriately to those pupils whom they had found most difficult to teach , have found that in the process they were becoming better teachers to their other pupils as well , with their job satisfaction rising accordingly . |
| 16 | Yet the weak or anomalous We forms may point to a further truth , that Shakespeare conceives of the relationship between two friends as both united and separated . |
| 17 | Yet this does point to a dilemma — goals are not necessarily consistent . |
| 18 | There are no marks of modern tools on any part of the sculpture , which is carved from hard dolomitic Thasian marble , but this could again point to a very sophisticated forgery . |
| 19 | Against this background of a bustling , potentially violent and effectively unpoliced street life , we can point to a wide variety of other kinds of rowdyism and misbehaviour at this time in history . |
| 20 | In the pre-operative period , a raised temperature may point to a contra-indication to surgery , e.g. infection . |
| 21 | An analogy would be with the familiar general principle of criminal law that a person can not be guilty as an aider and abettor unless ( in technical terms ) one can point to a principal offender who has committed the actus reus of an offence . |
| 22 | In the latter case addressing will probably only point to a bucket number , and in searching the bucket for a particular record using the direct technique it will no longer be an error to detect a dummy record , but part of the search . |
| 23 | Goldthorpe 's crisp conclusion is that ‘ relative mobility rates … have remained generally unaltered ; and the only trends that may arguably be discerned … are indeed ones that would point to a widening of differences in class chances . ’ |
| 24 | Colleagues and I recently reported a case that may point to a possible adjunct to treatment for these patients . |
| 25 | Mr. Frank Field : Following the suggestion of the honourable Member for Hendon , South ( Mr. Marshall ) , does the right Hon. Gentleman agree that last week 's meeting of the ecclesiastical committee and the legislative committee might point to a useful moral lead to be given by the commissioners ? |
| 26 | ‘ a police officer should be grateful if he could point to a clear cut instruction that he was only to stop a meeting if some incident at the meeting itself , whether caused by the speaker and his supporters or by the opposition present at the meeting place , led him to suppose that disorder was inevitable and could not be averted by any other means . ’ |
| 27 | Yet the alignment of Watling Street as revealed under the Guildhall would point to a crossing slightly further north , and nearer the modern line , along which a large number of Roman coins have been found in the river bed . |
| 28 | After all , a government pursuing anti-inflationary policies that cause wide-scale unemployment can point to a thriving underground economy and claim that its policies are working and that jobless figures do n't count . |
| 29 | Unfortunately the colonic response to a meal is not consistent even in normal subjects and its absence does not point to a specific lesion in the nervous system-colon axis . |
| 30 | Theory does point to a clear suspicion that a lack of competition can , most certainly , lead to inefficiencies , but it also identifies possible benefits from the attainment of lower-cost production . |