Example sentences of "pointing out [conj] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Roberts ( 4.5 ) surveys the literature on youth , pointing out that the traditional focus on how youth cultures have functioned so as to reconcile young people to adult roles in employment and family life have lost a crucial element — the expectation that young people ( especially those with only basic education ) would have jobs available . |
| 2 | His officers were aghast , pointing out that the minimum turning circle was half a mile and did their best to dissuade him . |
| 3 | In pointing out that the specific forms of marriage , family , property , and gender relations which existed in their time had not always existed , Marx and Engels were completely right , but in arguing positively that these things were totally absent in primitive society , they were , as we shall see , almost totally wrong . |
| 4 | The government issued a clarification on Aug. 29 pointing out that the new reservations applied only to jobs and not to educational places . |
| 5 | GEOGRAPHY lessons in Yugoslav schools used to start with the teacher pointing out that the first letters of the names of the states surrounding Yugoslavia added up to the word brigama , ‘ worries ’ . |
| 6 | As a member of the UK Offshore Operators Association , BP will make submissions pointing out that the general tenor of the tax changes should also encourage more efficient production from existing oilfields by creating incentives to recover more oil and gas . |
| 7 | Marx was pointing out that the capitalist assumption that what motivates man everywhere and for all time is the search for profit , is totally misleading and is itself a product of capitalism . |
| 8 | Embarrassment at the lack of results was brushed off by pointing out that the social sciences were new , and therefore could not be expected to achieve the theoretical power of the natural sciences straight away . |
| 9 | Members of the public expressed some dismay that the new lighting would be yellow , pointing out that the white light gives a character and atmosphere to this conservation area which should not be altered . |
| 10 | But the Tories have been quick to draw comfort from the latest figures , pointing out that the underlying trend showed that the rate of increase appeared to be levelling off in 1990 and 1991 . |
| 11 | It is worth pointing out that the British PWR design is largely based on the Bechtel-Westinghouse Standardised Nuclear Unit Power Plant System ( SNUPPS ) . |
| 12 | He walked onto the runway but was cleared of tresspass after pointing out that the public right of way as marked on maps actually crosses part of the base . |
| 13 | I join the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare ( Mr. Wiggin ) in pointing out that the Inland Waterways Association believes that it was not sufficiently consulted on the Bill . |
| 14 | Rather than simply criticizing quantitative analysis as a whole , she adapts slightly the standard method of measuring linguistic variables , pointing out that the three variants of ( r ) which can be distinguished ( [ ? ] , [ ? ] and [ ? ] are difficult to place on any rationally motivated social continuum . |
| 15 | Lest anyone should think that the matter is totally unproblematical , it is perhaps worth pointing out that the same dictionary gives no separate recognition to the parallel occurrences of shut . |
| 16 | Derek Bevan , whilst pointing out that the quick throw-in does not happen very often in a game situation , is convinced that , overall , it would encourage a more open style of play . |
| 17 | The pattern may look more obvious after the event , but it is worth pointing out that the French war in Vietnam in 1946 is sandwiched between their bombardment of Damascus and the eruption at Setif in Algeria in 1945 and their violent repression of the nationalist revolt in Madagascar in 1947 after similar claims had been made for independence within the French Union . |
| 18 | The Court of Appeal rejected her arguments , pointing out that the statutory duties to ensure " good taste " and " due impartiality " are imprecise , and that the Broadcasting Act requires only that the IBA should approve a satisfactory system for monitoring standards and public reactions . |
| 19 | ‘ The man is entitled to leave the woman , to whom he is not married , and it would be wrong and impolitic to say that if he expostulates with her , pointing out that the inevitable consequence of her present conduct will be the rupture of their relations , the result , if he succeeds in changing her attitude and sexual intercourse is resumed , is that he commits an offence . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ I noticed that a few counties had decided on June 6 and I sent out a letter pointing out that the recommended date was the second Saturday in June . |