Example sentences of "pointed [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The contrast between Reagan and his predecessor in these situations has been pointed up by one Democratic congressman . |
| 2 | The fact that Mustakimzade is clearly at a loss about Abdulkerim is further pointed up in his article about the following Mufti , Molla Arab . |
| 3 | I should be pointed out of the student questionnaire to the that the questionnaire was directed only to women , so the figures that have been extracted from that relate to women and in that way give a partial picture of the whole . |
| 4 | The hardness of life is pointed out as part of daily existence . |
| 5 | It is pointed out as the place where the warriors were buried . |
| 6 | Ask a hundred people what their least favourite part of the Spectrum is and the odds are heavily stacked in favour of the keyboard being pointed out as a prime culprit . |
| 7 | Enright has pointed out with regard to media that ‘ too much attention has been given to the possibilities of the new media supplanting the book , and far too little to the ways in which each can and does supplement the other ’ . |
| 8 | Some have pointed out with justice that the Max Planck Institutes have bled away the best research talent from the universities . |
| 9 | Those who delight in complexities and wish to pursue the matter further will find a number of adequate textbooks and sources of information which will be pointed out with fiendish delight by any qualified librarian , since he has had to run the whole gamut in preparing for his examinations . |
| 10 | Furthermore , as Tony Prosser has recently pointed out with reference to the Child Poverty Action Group 's ( CFAG 's ) social welfare test cases , there is always the danger that ‘ successful test cases which threaten established policy , especially by increasing expenditure , will meet with quick nullification by legislative or administrative action ’ ( Prosser , 1983 , p. 74 ) . |
| 11 | And when Laura had protested , as she frequently had , he had merely pointed out with brutal logic , ‘ You knew I was a businessman when you married me , Laura . |
| 12 | In 1743 , for example , when a number of the friends of Lord Panmure solicited his intervention in support of the candidacy of James Milne for the collectorship of Angus , Panmure was provided with a marked list of commissioners of supply , with those whom Panmure and his brother might be expected to influence carefully pointed out for personal solicitation . |
| 13 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |
| 14 | If there is a change of harmonic outlook in a piece , I prefer to feel , rather than to know whether it might arrive as a surprise , whether it should be prepared and how , and whether it ought to be pointed out at all ! |
| 15 | As was pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , they shared classical criminology 's view that the purpose of penal practice was effective crime control . |
| 16 | Is it not the case , as was pointed out at the time of the French Revolution by the Abbé Sieyes , that if the second chamber agrees with the first it is superfluous and if it disagrees it is mischievous ? |
| 17 | As pointed out at the beginning of this section , some of the interesting responses that arise on applying somewhat larger sinusoidal e.m.f.s to nonlinear resistive circuits such that the signal behaviour is governed by the nonlinear relation have been considered in section 5.9 . |
| 18 | I have pointed out to him that his picture echoes the medieval and Renaissance formula for St John on Patmos writing the Book of Revelation and for the evangelists writing the Gospels , itself derived from Greco-Roman author portraits . |
| 19 | One of them , it was pointed out to him , was the great ex-Soviet chess player , Korchnoi , who is apparently training with the team in order to reach maximum physical fitness for his world title challenge to his arch-rival , the darling of the Soviets , Karpov . |
| 20 | But if Hardy 's Virgilianism had been pointed out to Pound , this would not have counted in Hardy 's favour . |
| 21 | It was pointed out to the young man that Philip was the chairman of CUM . |
| 22 | His father told him he had never come closer to disobeying an order in his life , but he was finally persuaded to do so because it was pointed out to him that if the British Army did not send back the Cossacks , the Soviets would not send back British POWs . |
| 23 | This smacks of something akin to censorship , as one impeccably non-racist European festival director sadly pointed out to me . |
| 24 | The Manor was one of the first houses my father ever pointed out to me in an effort to get me to appreciate architecture . |
| 25 | This does not mean that they can not be found in the world ; a child may wonder what shape or arrangement a triangle is , and have it pointed out to him . |
| 26 | As far as I could see , a holy well pointed out to me by my 1973 taxi driver had also been concreted . |
| 27 | If it was being pointed out to her that she had been born to a life of political responsibility and not simply pleasure by one member of the powerful and able house of Guise in France , the message was being reinforced from Scotland by another : her mother , Mary of Guise . |
| 28 | There , as Blair had so persuasively pointed out to Sloane , he diligently tilled his soil to cultivate the beautiful flowers and shrubs of which , in later writings , his own appreciation was always apparent . |
| 29 | When this was first pointed out to the ambassador , he said that he could not be sued for libel since he possessed diplomatic immunity . |
| 30 | But on the picket line Bob Busby had pointed out to her that the Shadow Scheme was official University business and that she would be strike-breaking if she kept her appointment . |