Example sentences of "he pointed [adv prt] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He pointed out that the federal government was directly responsible for determining the prices of only 11.5 per cent of industrial products and 14.5 per cent of retail prices , and concluded from that that the government played only a minor role in generating inflation . |
| 10 | He pointed out that the Select Committee had found no material difference between Gothic and Classic and with regard to the incongruity of the styles : |
| 11 | And he pointed out that the NII had given assurances to both the House of Commons select committee on energy and to successive energy ministers that there would be no unresolved safety issues by the time the public inquiry got under way . |
| 12 | 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 ? |
| 13 | Also he pointed out that the portions of the castle most liable to be hit by missiles , especially the parapets and roofs , could be thickened in the masonry , and reinforced to good effect . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He pointed out that the American Physical Society had invited him to give the talk , that he had completed a three — year research programme , having done all the necessary cross checks and controls , and had definitive results to present . |
| 17 | He pointed out that the FCC has a policy of broad equivalence for markets , taking as factors open entry and even-handedness with competitors . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | He pointed out that the client/server bottleneck is caused by the development time . |
| 20 | He pointed out that the media coverage of the Gulf War ‘ created a fantasy instead of informing the public of the real situation . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) … |
| 24 | He pointed out that the USSR had repeatedly confirmed its readiness to disband the Warsaw Pact alongside a simultaneous dissolution of NATO . |
| 25 | He pointed out that the ores raised from greater depth would be at a greater expense though the Royalties would in fact increase . |
| 26 | He pointed out that the latency period is absent in primitive societies and is found only in higher cultures . |
| 27 | He pointed out that the best papers should indeed go to international journals because it is good both for the author and for international medical literature . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He pointed out that the council had arranged a private tutor for him while it worked on trying to find him a school . |