Example sentences of "[noun prp] have pointed [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I do n't want to be sharing my life with anyone , gorgeous hunk or not , ’ Shannon had pointed out mildly , managing with an effort not to remind Kelly they 'd been over this ground a hundred times before . |
| 2 | Only a couple of days before Maggie had pointed out how the great cathedral dominated the city , like the spines along a dragon 's back , while the other buildings lay in a rough sprawl . |
| 3 | Vivienne Hart has pointed out how many actions , of which she takes populism as her example , which have been presented as subversive of government , are in fact defensive of the constitution in general against the constitutionally subversive , or supposed constitutionally subversive actions of particular governments and politicians . |
| 4 | Mrs Hollidaye had pointed out how one could see creatures even more clearly when they were silhouetted as in a shadow cut-out . |
| 5 | Reformulating Saussure , Jakobson had pointed out earlier ( Jakobson 1956 : 55ff ) that every linguistic message is the product of a double process : ( 1 ) the act of selection among items not present in the message but associated in the code ( i.e. in the langue or language system ) , and ( 2 ) the combination of the items selected into a sequence . |
| 6 | What matters is the role Shakespeare plays in it , a role at once central and expendable — and , in some obscure way , not just expendable but exchangeable for what really matters : the writing that more directly serves power [ Greenblatt having pointed out how Stanley 's notebook proved invaluable in establishing the Belgian Congo ] . |
| 7 | However NGC has pointed out repeatedly that there is ‘ no proven link ’ between cancers and EMF . |
| 8 | Erm I think erm both the low and the high figures would cause us problems , and that is why we have have accepted the County Council 's figures based on continuation of past trends , migration trends , which as my colleague from Leeds has pointed out earlier we are obliged to do and are continuing to do in following from R P G two in our depopulation of the . |
| 9 | It was at that moment that the couple whom Guido had pointed out earlier finished paying their bill and headed out to the car park . |
| 10 | ( ‘ Nature intended them all to be small and prickly , ’ Clare had pointed out unkindly in one animated discussion . ) |