Example sentences of "he point [adv prt] [that] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a report published yesterday , he points out that the Government anticipated that the introduction of the council tax , which comes into operation on 1 April , would substantially reduce the costs of administering and collecting local taxation , possibly by as much as 60 per cent . |
| 2 | He points out that the ratio of housing debt to income is historically high , while Labour 's plans would hit the average mortgage holder in the South . |
| 3 | In an interview in the magazine Director to be published this week , Dr Runcie denies that there are ‘ tensions and suspicions ’ between Lambeth Palace and 10 Downing Street , but he points out that the Church of England is active in parts of the country where the Conservative Party has little support . |
| 4 | First , he points out that the process of ostensive definition , whereby the solipsist attempts to give a meaning to the term ‘ pain ’ by pointing ( mentally ) to a sensation , is one which only works when we already have a background of conceptual knowledge , and can not be used to construct such knowledge from a blank sheet . |
| 5 | He points out that the reporting of the Brixton riot was marked by a discursive struggle between the ‘ law-and-order discourse ’ and a ‘ contra-discourse ’ , which sought to demystify ‘ the hitherto unproblematic position of the police ’ , by emphasising the possibility that police harassment and brutality lay at the root of the disorder . |
| 6 | He is also conscious of more international trends in higher education such as the encouragement of adult and continuing education — he points out that the city state of Berlin would be particularly well-suited to conduct experiments in the use of techniques such as cable television . |
| 7 | He pointed out that the prisoner did not deny that he had killed his wife , but it was a spur-of-the-moment loss of temper , and that his client had panicked and tried to conceal the body . |
| 8 | In this paper he pointed out that the problem was not to explain why his thin fibres were strong , since a single chain of atoms must , inescapably , have either the theoretical strength or none at all , but rather to explain why the thicker fibres were weak . |
| 9 | In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said . |
| 10 | He pointed out that the company 's investment portfolio alone , ‘ which will be worth $17.73 per share by 30 September 1990 , if the portfolio experiences the same rate of growth as last year , is equal to nearly the value of the total cash-out price ’ . |
| 11 | He pointed out that the latency period is absent in primitive societies and is found only in higher cultures . |
| 12 | Fellows seems to have acted in the sale of the Grand Union to the Grand Junction , for in a letter to the Grand Union he pointed out that the price would have to be realistic , bearing in mind that they were not dealing with a willing purchaser . |
| 13 | He pointed out that the army version of the shooting prompted the questions : Why , if the army believed that it had caught three terrorists , did it let all of them escape ? |
| 14 | He pointed out that the Act of 1978 replaced section 6 of the Law Reform ( Married Women and Tortfeasors ) Act 1935 which created a right of contribution between joint tortfeasors : ‘ Where damage is suffered by any person as a result of a tort ( whether a crime or not ) … |
| 15 | He pointed out that the council had arranged a private tutor for him while it worked on trying to find him a school . |
| 16 | His brevet ( his flying wings in other words ) was situated some two or three inches above the pocket and when this error was pointed out to him by the more die-hard RAF characters he pointed out that the space was to make room for the VC , the DSO and the DFC . |
| 17 | He pointed out that the client/server bottleneck is caused by the development time . |
| 18 | He pointed out that the occurrence of conflict rather than co-operation and the fact that evolution ‘ rests on a struggle for existence ’ shows ‘ a want of that organic unity in which the good of one part is necessarily the good of the rest ’ . |
| 19 | He pointed out that the SOFRECOM recommendations for a VHF-FM system would be the only way to achieve national coverage , but that this would be very expensive : a mere K537,000 had been allocated for capital expenditure , ‘ just a drop in a sea of water ’ . |
| 20 | Firstly , he pointed out that the Wolfenden Committee had recognised in its Report that , for the preservation of discipline and for the protection of those of subordinate rank , the services might wish to retain section 6 of the Army Act which provides for the punishment of those guilty of ‘ disgraceful conduct of an indecent or unnatural kind ’ . |
| 21 | The driver never disputed that the engine was a foreigner , but pins his defence , he pointed out that the week previous , he had taken over and ex-LNER B.1 4–6–0 working from Sheffield to Llandudno , and despite that being a foreigner , had been acceptable . |
| 22 | He pointed out that the strength of the regime could not depend on ‘ the laws [ ! ] of the Gestapo alone ’ , and that ‘ the broad mass [ of the population ] needs an idol ’ . |