Example sentences of "point out [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the same token love is called upon to find a constructive way to point out a selfish behaviour in my partner . |
| 2 | Martin 's solicitude made Nick ashamed : it seemed to point out a certain coldness in his own heart . |
| 3 | The author makes use of irony to point out a moral conclusion . |
| 4 | I would like to point out a small correction for your readers . |
| 5 | To conclude this section it is necessary to point out a few things about the squad training sessions . |
| 6 | However , every piece of music is different and has its own problems , and it is therefore necessary to point out a few pitfalls , and to make a few special recommendations . |
| 7 | Those who have read Mr Clark 's prose with mounting impatience might like to point out a few lessons to him : 1 ) mention the book early on ; 2 ) avoid the clichés ; 3 ) forswear dodgy phrases , like ‘ pied-piper 's trail of opportunity discarded ’ , which really mean very little . |
| 8 | Now and then there was lightning to point out the black holes , the crumbling trenches , the boulders scattered in their way like the droppings of some vast , vile dragon . |
| 9 | It is important to point out the major differences between the work of law centres and that of the private profession . |
| 10 | Proponents of the view that Keynesian stabilization policies are futile have been quick to point out the key role that wage and price rigidity play in justifying such policies , and the need for advocates of such policies to provide some theory of why prices should be rigid in the way they claim they are . |
| 11 | Marx was not the first to denounce the wretched condition of the working class in capitalist countries , nor was he the first to point out the apparent anomaly that those who produced the wealth , the workers , were the poorest while those who were apparently useless drones , the capitalists and their associates , were the richest . |
| 12 | It was no accident , therefore , that Bukharin went on to point out the real advances already made by the Soviet economy , particularly in industry , during the preceding period . |
| 13 | Other writers were quick to point out the inherent functionalism of this approach . |
| 14 | Welcoming Darlington Tory candidate Michael Fallon to Prodescon 's new offices , director Malcolm Palmer was keen to point out the blue carpeting and wallpaper gracing the new building as proof positive of the his own , if not the company 's , political leanings . |
| 15 | Randal O'Toole , a forest economist based in Portland , Oregon , is quick to point out the disingenuous parts in the Forest Service proposal . |
| 16 | Before examining the evidence it is important to point out the political assumptions of such claims . |
| 17 | respecting the provisions of the Legislature on this point and the manner in which these provisions have been eluded , as well as to point out the pecuniary advantages [ the system of bounties which the abolitionists had themselves promoted ] which would accrue to them from a vigorous enforcement of the Abolition Laws . |
| 18 | Our job was to point out the commercial success of British Coal as a modern company able to compete . ’ |
| 19 | ASK an American banker to point out the bright spots in his beleaguered industry , and he will probably point to credit cards . |
| 20 | If , at the time the contract is made , it is possible to point out the particular goods upon which the parties have agreed , then those goods are specific . |
| 21 | And if we 're combining Morrissey and The Smiths ' covers , it 's only fair to point out the relative regularity with which three others have had their mugs used to shift copies . |
| 22 | The driver did n't have to point out the bullet-riddled windows of the coach as we lurched along from Bucharest airport to Poiana Brasov . |
| 23 | Discussion of the number of guesses recorded can be used to point out the different kinds of letter order in words . |
| 24 | Feminists have always been quick to point out the double standards which operate at virtually every level of discourse . |
| 25 | Parents can not always be on the spot to point out the sensible course of action , to remind children about the rules or to enforce them . |
| 26 | Sociologists have been quick to point out the obvious absurdity of this — without , of course , seeing the nonsensicality of their own position — and have rightly observed that no one is born into a vacuum , that cultures and the individuals within them vary , and that individual psychology is powerfully influenced by traditional and cultural factors of which a purely individualistic approach can not take account . |
| 27 | Leopold went on to point out the obvious flaws in Wolfgang 's proposal to get an unknown 16-year-old singer accepted in Italy — the graveyard of many an aspiring career — and to accuse him of having betrayed his father 's trust . |
| 28 | Credit finance legislation is very detailed and complicated , and many lawyers are not competent to point out the basic pitfalls to unsuspecting clients . |
| 29 | David Vine : it takes a big man to point out the big men with the big problems |
| 30 | But when we move from Einhard to the Christian ideal of rule in general , it is at once necessary to point out an important fact about Christianity : that its book , the Bible , consists of two Testaments , which are very different from each other in ethic . |