Example sentences of "[prep] point [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After pointing out that Mrs Shephard was deputy chairman of the Conservative Party , Mr Major then made what was probably the nearest thing to a gaffe in the campaign : ‘ She 's a splendid acquisition , do n't you think ? ’ he said to a packed conference centre . |
| 2 | For example , an article in Ekonomska politika ( 27 July 1987 ) , after pointing out that , according to the law , banks are independent organizations and carry the risks of their own decisions , continues : ‘ But it is not so in practice . |
| 3 | After pointing out that the distinction between cases of habeas corpus in a criminal matter , and cases where the matter is not criminal goes back very far , Viscount Simon L.C. said , at pp. 156–157 : |
| 4 | My noble and learned friend , Lord Keith of Kinkel , at p. 112b , after pointing out that the draft Regulations were not capable of being amended when presented to Parliament , said that it was ‘ entirely legitimate for the purpose of ascertaining the intention of Parliament to take into account the terms in which the draft was presented by the responsible minister and which formed the basis of its acceptance . ’ |
| 5 | He walked onto the runway but was cleared of tresspass after pointing out that the public right of way as marked on maps actually crosses part of the base . |
| 6 | Robson tires of pointing out that England always have a spare man , but unfortunately this often turns out to be Gary Stevens , an orthodox full-back , perhaps incorrigibly so . |
| 7 | Heart experts never tire of pointing out that Winston Churchill started life as a frail premature baby , went on to smoke , drink heavily and eat to the point of obesity , but lived to a great age , whereas Nathan Pritikin , inventor of the Pritikin diet , died a premature death despite being obsessed with health . |
| 8 | The Government is fond of pointing out that output rose 20% between 1981 and 1991 , but it is setting the starting point in the trough of a recession to suit itself . |
| 9 | As Levi-Strauss was to argue , different histories have different temporalities : the time scales of the sciences do not work at the same pace as other forms of history : they have their own dynamic , their own rhythm , their own times , sometimes fast , sometimes slow , that do not operate by the ordinary round of the year ; Bachelard was fond of pointing out that from a scientific point of view the ten years from 1920 to 1930 were as long an era as the previous five hundred . |
| 10 | No prizes can be offered for pointing out that at a given moment there are artists of several generations working and in very different ways . |
| 11 | Although one IBM manager recently got widespread publicity for pointing out that PCs were overtaking mainframes as IBM 's largest source of revenues , this is misleading . |
| 12 | Lionel Salter writes : I am indebted to Dr Lionel Sawkins for pointing out that the version of Delalande 's Te Deum recorded by William Christie is not , as stated ( page 31 of the March issue ) the original ( of 1684 ) but the second surviving version made by Philidor l'aîné for the Comte de Toulouse in 1704–06 , which is ‘ as different from the original as it is from the version recorded by Colléaux ’ . |
| 13 | You might think this a cheap revenge on a dead lady critic simply for pointing out that Flaubert did n't have a very reliable notion of Emma Bovary 's eyes . |
| 14 | I 'd like to come back to policy on migration chair , and I 'm grateful to Mr for pointing out that nineteen eighty is thirteen years ag away and things have moved on in every respect demographically . |
| 15 | It is worth pointing out that before the revolution , Cuba , due to its sugar-based economy , had relatively fewer smallholders and relatively more agricultural labourers than most Latin American countries . |
| 16 | It is worth pointing out that it does so in accordance with the normal justification thesis . |
| 17 | It is worth pointing out that more work had been done by the pathfinders than many people realize . |
| 18 | It is worth pointing out that , if the initial Killing vector had been taken to be , which is ( 12.25 ) with and , an equivalent transformation would have been obtained with and . |
| 19 | It is worth pointing out that the British PWR design is largely based on the Bechtel-Westinghouse Standardised Nuclear Unit Power Plant System ( SNUPPS ) . |
| 20 | It 's perhaps worth pointing out that for some inexplicable reason , BMG has decided not to provide individual tracks for each of the movements which is something of a disadvantage in a work like the Webern . |
| 21 | Just to get really morbid , it is worth pointing out that death does not automatically extinguish debts on bank accounts personal loans and credit cards , hence the offer of insurance which is usually incorporated in the relevant loan/credit card application form . |
| 22 | Finally , it is worth pointing out that the voltage at pin-14 does not behave in quite the way in which you suggest . |
| 23 | It is also worth pointing out that however efficient the UV system installed , it will not produce clear water unless used in conjunction with a good filter unit . |
| 24 | But it is worth pointing out that of the 40 seats where we called upon ‘ no-hope ’ third-party candidates to stand down to maximise the chances of defeating the Tory incumbents , just seven were captured by the opposition parties . |
| 25 | In this passage the Wordsworthian echoes of subject-matter and vocabulary are remarkable , though I suppose it is worth pointing out that Virginia Woolf was the daughter of Sir Leslie Stephen , an ‘ agnostic mountaineer ’ whose interests owed a great deal to the reading of Wordsworth . |
| 26 | It is worth pointing out that virtually all of the current best model helicopter pilots learned to fly them before the existence of a practical gyrostabiliser . |
| 27 | Hogg , Cronin , Shiel , Stark and Milne scored the tries and again it is worth pointing out that the Scots outscored the opposition by five tries to two . |
| 28 | It is worth pointing out that rateable values can go up or down following an appeal , and care should be taken before acting . |
| 29 | It 's worth pointing out that the spell of good weather we enjoyed in the early summer ended with his return to South Africa . |
| 30 | Here it might be worth pointing out that handles are necessary only for burial , for lowering the coffin on ropes into the grave ; for cremation they are quite superfluous . |