Example sentences of "pointed [adv] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Scargill pointed out that the Polish union Solidarity , repeatedly praised from the rostrum , had not held a ballot before taking strike action . |
| 2 | Mr Adams pointed out that the profits of Ford of Britain had risen for the third year running to a record £673m and he calculated a further increase to £710m was likely this year . |
| 3 | Placing himself in an illustrious line of critics he pointed out that the Pharisees did not escape the sharp edge of Jesus 's tongue for their ‘ self righteousness ’ and ‘ judgemental ’ attitudes . |
| 4 | Introducing the Arts Council 's annual report , Mr Palumbo , a highly successful property developer , pointed out that the public sector gave five times as much as the private sector in Britain , whereas in the United States 90 per cent of the arts were funded by private donations . |
| 5 | They also pointed out that the alternative would not ‘ plug into ’ the east coast rail lines from King 's Cross unless an expensive underground link was built from Stratford into central London . |
| 6 | But the laboratory 's report pointed out that the sample flask did not bear Yates 's signature , casting doubt on its authenticity . |
| 7 | She pointed out that the plaster would soon fall away without paint . |
| 8 | First of all , Fortes and Evans-Pritchard pointed out that the descent groups of segmentary society may be either matrilineal or patrilineal , not just matrilineal , as Morgan believed . |
| 9 | Keith Wells pointed out that the title Sheffield Shares is deliberately ambiguous — it can be taken to mean Sheffield 's shares , as in ‘ shares ’ which are up for grabs by keen or greedy speculators ( my interpretation ) , but it can also mean Sheffield shares as in ‘ shares its wealth ’ — ‘ and that 's basically what we are trying to initiate here . |
| 10 | But there were also two major objections to Skybolt : it was the most expensive of the air mobile options ; and the Americans pointed out that the technological risks were so high that the project might well fail . |
| 11 | The CBI pointed out that the rush to beat the VAT increases might have encouraged a shopping spree . |
| 12 | The British Minister for Sport , Hector Monro , pointed out that the Gleneagles agreement was irrelevant here as it made no reference to actions by one country against the nationals of another , but on 26 February the British High Commissioner in Georgetown was notified that Jackman 's visitor 's permit had been withdrawn and he must leave the country . |
| 13 | ( Afterwards Andy Roberts pointed out that the only ‘ alien implant ’ so far discovered turned out to be a ball bearing that had got lodged up a child 's nose . ) |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | In Ajdabiya a young man , Wunis Abdulhadi , the brother of the lawyer Abdulsalam Abdulhadi , pointed out that The Financial Times had already announced the formation of Libyan-financed joint enterprises and that the government had given months ago ; he concluded there was no point in discussing the issue . |
| 16 | Other leaders , like the Rev. Alexander Mackennal , pointed out that the original Separatists of the sixteenth century had not venerated that ‘ extravagant individualism against which we are now witnessing a somewhat excessive revolt ’ . |
| 17 | He also pointed out that the apparently prodigious appetites of the clergy might be explained by the droves of tourists and worshippers who ate at Vatican restaurants . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The truce was , however , greeted with scepticism by defence officials and citizens , who pointed out that the document was unsigned and did not have the public backing of the pro-Serb Yugoslav army . |
| 20 | Dr Gary Savage , McLaren 's development engineer , pointed out that the newly equipped laboratory ‘ will have the performance capability in materials science testing which is comparable to any multinational chemical company . |
| 21 | Rimington pointed out that the stabilisation of accident levels is the result of a decline in heavy industry and better health and safety regulations . |
| 22 | Conservation groups pointed out that the Commission was studying the wrong forests ( its own and its younger plantations ) and had deliberately excluded the trees which , on the basis of continental experience , would be most at risk . |
| 23 | Rossi pointed out that the Commission 's denial of a link between forest decline and pollution was ‘ quite contrary ’ to evidence from others and ‘ the Swedes , Norwegians and Germans who fear that there is a very , very direct connection ’ . |
| 24 | When I asked Tony Geraghty what he had meant by ‘ not being counted ’ he pointed out that the S.A.S. 's own casualty figures did not add up . |
| 25 | He pointed out that the structural basis of human behaviour must be rooted in the gregarious nature of primates and the potentialities thereby offered for the socialization of individual experience . |
| 26 | 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 ’ . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When another objector pointed out that the Pan-Am jumbo jet which exploded in mid-air over Lockerbie in Scotland in December 1988 , killing 270 people and scattering its debris for miles , had just minutes earlier passed over the Chapelcross nuclear power station , the reality came frighteningly close . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He also pointed out that the Nile , if it flooded , might well drown a greater number of people than all the refugees . |