Example sentences of "he points [adv prt] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an interview in the magazine Director to be published this week , Dr Runcie denies that there are ‘ tensions and suspicions ’ between Lambeth Palace and 10 Downing Street , but he points out that the Church of England is active in parts of the country where the Conservative Party has little support . |
| 2 | Now a left-leaning Solidarity MP with close ties to trade unionists , he points out that the only choice is between more recession and less recession . |
| 3 | As a member of the legal profession , he points out that the three-year limitation period on claims for injury or death does not run out until a week tomorrow . |
| 4 | He points out that the ratio of housing debt to income is historically high , while Labour 's plans would hit the average mortgage holder in the South . |
| 5 | He points out that the pencils are notoriously difficult to get , and says the simple fact is that the judges have not seen sufficient innovation . |
| 6 | Frankly admitting that ‘ parliament is no longer the centre of power that it was ’ , he points out that the only political orator left in France is Le Pen , who is not a deputé . |
| 7 | However , he points out that the effects of the testosterone rises appear to affect men more than women — in a study in the United States it was found that teenage boys felt sexier when their testosterone levels were high , whereas their female counterparts were more affected by peer group activity ( ie what their friends were doing ) . |
| 8 | He is also conscious of more international trends in higher education such as the encouragement of adult and continuing education — he points out that the city state of Berlin would be particularly well-suited to conduct experiments in the use of techniques such as cable television . |
| 9 | Althusser is emphatic that the means of production are just as essential to the fashioning of theoretical products as to something like shoemaking , which plainly requires leather , tools , etc. , and he points out that the Marxist concept of labour is in this sense irreducibly material . |
| 10 | First , he points out that the process of ostensive definition , whereby the solipsist attempts to give a meaning to the term ‘ pain ’ by pointing ( mentally ) to a sensation , is one which only works when we already have a background of conceptual knowledge , and can not be used to construct such knowledge from a blank sheet . |
| 11 | He points out that the courts have departed from the old literal approach of statutory construction and now adopt a purposive approach , seeking to discover the Parliamentary intention lying behind the words used and construing the legislation so as to give effect to , rather than thwart , the intentions of Parliament . |
| 12 | He points out that the ‘ causal ’ translation between neural and behavioural response implied by Kandel has never been tested directly in the intact animal . |
| 13 | He points out that the reporting of the Brixton riot was marked by a discursive struggle between the ‘ law-and-order discourse ’ and a ‘ contra-discourse ’ , which sought to demystify ‘ the hitherto unproblematic position of the police ’ , by emphasising the possibility that police harassment and brutality lay at the root of the disorder . |
| 14 | For example , he points out that the four-year global change programme began as an attempt to ‘ understand the scientific processes . |
| 15 | He points out that the working classes consisted mainly of peasants forced off the land through extreme poverty . |
| 16 | He points out that the droppings which the plant will be using would normally be used as manure for spreading on fields . |
| 17 | He points out that the young fellow or girl with only modest ‘ A ’ levels now has little choice : they have to do without — or go across the water . |
| 18 | He points out that the best people , like Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin , started singing in gospel choirs not at music lessons . |
| 19 | In a report published yesterday , he points out that the Government anticipated that the introduction of the council tax , which comes into operation on 1 April , would substantially reduce the costs of administering and collecting local taxation , possibly by as much as 60 per cent . |