Example sentences of "have pointed [adv] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He has pointed both to its overall lack of numbers and to the fact that some of the areas where it was strong , west Cornwall for example , were not in any case likely locations for revolutionary agitation . |
| 2 | Using traditional measures of religiosity , he has pointed out the apparent failure of English catholic schools to produce better catholics and fewer ex-catholics than state or other schools , and has inferred the likelihood of the same for Irish schools . |
| 3 | Allan Megill has pointed out that an alternative ‘ meaning ’ of the phrase is , ‘ there is no inserted plate ’ ( a French dictionary defines ‘ hors-texte ’ as ‘ Gravure , planche tirée á part et intercalée dans un livre ’ ) . |
| 4 | Reviewing and criticism are separate activities , but the best literary journalism can provide genuine and valuable criticism , as Morris Dickstein has pointed out . |
| 5 | Jean-Marie Balestre , the president of FISA , has pointed out that the regulations permit an immediate ban regardless of any appeal and there would appear to be no further argument on that point . |
| 6 | Its efficacy may also be questioned : the RFAC 's chairman , Lord St John of Fawsley , has pointed out that gates which must be opened and shut will merely attract attention to the Prime Minister 's movements . |
| 7 | Now , as John Bowker has pointed out in the first article in this series , ‘ to say that God is not affected by His creatures is not to say that He takes no interest in them ’ , nor that , seen from our viewpoint as creatures in time and space , God can not do one thing at one moment and something apparently quite different the next . |
| 8 | A single currency is also on the agenda because the balance of the economic argument has also swung sharply in its favour over the last decade , as Professor Michael Artis has pointed out ( 1 ) . |
| 9 | However , as Dr Lyall Watson has pointed out , the conclusions must be suspect because the experiments required the animal to do repetitive and meaningless tasks in isolation — a far cry from the dolphin 's natural condition . |
| 10 | The term ‘ secularisation ’ , as its distinguished chronicler has pointed out , was coming into use in the period 1865–70 . |
| 11 | As Freud has pointed out , however , children do not normally repress the thought of death , but are more likely to express it in fantasy . |
| 12 | But , as Jean Dunbabin has pointed out , the castellans became vulnerable to the concerted criticism of the communities which they dominated . |
| 13 | In fact , as Stephen Gallup has pointed out in a recent history of the festival , Karajan was the last surviving link with the traditions of the festival 's founding fathers . |
| 14 | As Dr David Starkey has pointed out , James 's palace is today the best example in Britain of that style of royal architecture which had such an effect on the political life of the court . |
| 15 | The writer , Christopher Stell , has pointed out that of some 600 ‘ architects ’ whose buildings were described in the Congregational Union 's Year Books in the nineteenth century , ‘ very few ’ are credited with having built more than one or two . |
| 16 | Sutton Water Company has pointed out that it has imposed a sprinkler ban , not a hosepipe ban as stated in Tuesday 's paper . |
| 17 | As Davies ( 1981 ) has pointed out , speech is the basic tool of the social worker . |
| 18 | But , as Nigel Haigh of the IEEP has pointed out , even if 1970 ( the year of peak emissions ) was taken as a baseline , the UK would achieve only a 44 per cent reduction as against 80 per cent for the Netherlands , 56 per cent for West Germany and 50 per cent for Belgium . |
| 19 | As Jonah Barish ( 1969 ) has pointed out , embedded in our language is a common usage of artistic metaphors of which the dramatic ones are unambiguously pejorative . |
| 20 | The Institute of Directors has pointed out that ‘ the 5th Company Law Directive has been under discussion since 1972 , with no agreement yet in sight ’ . |
| 21 | For an industry which , as Frans Andriessen , the External Affairs Commissioner , has pointed out , accounts for only 5% of EC exports compared to the 25% of the population in industrial work and the even larger percentage in financial services , agriculture is absurdly mollycoddled . |
| 22 | Sir Julian Bullard , a former British Ambassador to Bonn , has pointed out that ‘ some Germans argue , in a single confident jump , from the reduced military threat from the East to the possibility of a world without alliances or without nuclear weapons ’ . |
| 23 | Ratcliffe ( 1968 ) has pointed out that lower-lying areas of the Outer Hebrides are rather drier than the mountains of these islands , but are nevertheless much wetter than low-lying areas of the eastern Highlands . |
| 24 | He has pointed out , too , that if life is considered in this light , then some clays could be thought of as alive . |
| 25 | Someone has pointed out that this would require an ability to control the Royal Mail to ensure that letters did not get lost ! |
| 26 | On the road , the Christian driver has pointed out those inscriptions on the walls of the Dog River . |
| 27 | So although vast amounts of historical information are included , as Heide Ziegler has pointed out , ‘ the facts of history are … the premise of other possibilities . |
| 28 | As Hitchings himself has pointed out , ‘ we were uncommitted with respect to specific disease targets , but we were bound to follow wherever our thoughts and antimetabolites led us ’ . |
| 29 | As Alice Walker has pointed out , Blackwomen must read history for clues not facts , and it seemed essential to leave clues as to a more holistic range of our artistic pursuits . |
| 30 | As Mr Gladstone has pointed out , in the last few years progress has been far more rapid because improved education has created in all classes of the community an increased desire and appetite for literature which did not formerly exist , and that can only be supplied by means of such public libraries in which we are now met . |