Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] pointed " in BNC.
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| 1 | So precisely what Mr Hill has already pointed out to you in the discussion which he 's had with you . |
| 2 | In summer they would be green , as the agent had cunningly pointed out . |
| 3 | Battells have also pointed out that they very often receive separate orders from the same areas and it is suggested that to save on carriage etc . |
| 4 | The French theorist Lyotard has recently pointed to the fragmentation of intellectual culture . |
| 5 | Grieco 's work has also pointed to the wider social importance of women in maintaining and enforcing the system of network reciprocity , even when not themselves in work . |
| 6 | Professor John Brewer has recently pointed out that the capital value of the fleet at the end of the eighteenth century was perhaps five times greater than the £402,651 at which the West Riding woollen manufacture was valued in 1801 . |
| 7 | As Shklovsky had already pointed out in his essay on ‘ Art as technique ’ ( although the implications of his remarks were not fully drawn out until later ) form and order can themselves act as powerful automatizing factors . |
| 8 | Stefano Tani has already pointed out that Calvino 's idea of observation , within his wider poetic of ‘ seeing ’ , is a different matter from the ‘ impassive and indifferent , basically blind , gaze that we have inherited from the nouveau roman ’ . |
| 9 | They wore mushroom-shaped hats topped with glittering brass spikes , and white cloths fluttered at their necks to protect them from the sun ; all of them were barefoot , but Joseph noticed that their leg wrappings were yellow — the colour , as Tran Van Hieu had already pointed out , which was worn only by the emperor and his immediate entourage . |
| 10 | As the hon. Gentleman has rightly pointed out , those funds are of importance to us in the provision of our capital infrastructure , although they are not totally significant . |
| 11 | A similar settlement seems likely at Weston-under-Penyard , where the widespread mass of slag and many furnaces has long pointed to the exploitation of iron from the Forest of Dean . |
| 12 | Dr Lee has recently pointed out that although the resources which went into the exporting industries could have been channelled elsewhere , the return would almost certainly have been less : " An eighteenth-century economy without resource to trade would have been smaller , less diversified and must have generated less growth even than the modest rate of increase actually achieved . " |
| 13 | Sally Alexander and Eleanor Gordon have both pointed out that this is one area where the census figures are particularly unreliable , since they inevitably omit or underrepresent casual , seasonal , irregular or part-time work , which was the only kind many older married women could manage . |
| 14 | The CEGB and other official agencies have regularly pointed out that the public may not be happy to have giant structures in areas of scenic beauty . |
| 15 | Epidemiological studies have consistently pointed to the health hazards associated with smoking , but most studies have looked at health risks amongst those who are middle aged . |
| 16 | The Canto as a whole , whatever its incidental obscurities , is plainly concerned with the phenomenon of ‘ the living dead ’ , focussed in part , as Ronald Bush has invaluably pointed out , on the old men , Clemenceau , Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson , legislating at Versailles for a future they had no part in . |
| 17 | Although it is true , as Charles Muscatine has recently pointed out , that it is inappropriate and impossible to seek to classify fabliaux in toto as representing one of the styles of Latin rhetoric recognized in the medieval schools — humilis , medius or gravis : low , middle or high — fabliau authors can call up such a range of styles for good local effect . |
| 18 | As Toni Pickard has saliently pointed out , it is possible for a man to ascertain whether a woman is consenting or not with minimal effort . |
| 19 | Criminal libel is an ancient offence which is now unlikely to be invoked against the media by prosecuting authorities : the Law Commission has recommended its abolition , and one Law Lord has further pointed out that its scope conflicts with the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 20 | The 1947 Press Commission had already pointed it out — but the proportion sharing at that time was only one-fifth . |
| 21 | The women 's movement and the Equal Opportunities Commission have assiduously pointed out unequal treatment of men and women in the marriage relationship when and where it occurs . |
| 22 | Sociologists have often pointed out that the various processes and outcomes of racial discrimination referred to above have produced a very distinctive location for black people in the British class structure . |
| 23 | It is true , as sociologists have recently pointed out , that psychoanalysis , or a variant of it , can become a managerial ideology , and may be used by staff in hospitals in order to control and out-manoeuvre patients , but this only makes sense as a piece of sociology if there is a possibility that in principle , if not in practice , there could be an uncorrupt ideology or ‘ science ’ . |
| 24 | As one commentator has thus pointed out , ‘ [ a ] lthough the relationship between compensation and corporate performance is statistically significant , it is not economically significant ’ . |
| 25 | But that was three weeks ago , as the Substitute Prosecutor has already pointed out to you . |
| 26 | As My Noble Friend Lord Allen has already pointed out today , suppose two elected members are ill or on holiday , and natural enough assumption taken over the years , are important decisions to be taken by that authority in such a situation ? |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | Green had also pointed the finger at his wife 's lover Stuwart Skett . |
| 29 | Green had also pointed the finger at his wife 's lover , Stuwart Skett . |
| 30 | Labour councillors have already pointed out that spending restrictions imposed by the Government will mean crucial services could be cut back . |