Example sentences of "he point [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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 : |
| 30 | 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 . |