Example sentences of "[pron] points out [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When someone points out that other people can do x , y and z , we reply ‘ Yes , but they 're different ! ’ |
| 2 | But a new note has surfaced , a note which points out that while philosophical scepticism may have nourished and stimulated the mind of Greeks trained in civic religious observances , it was not nourishing to modern minds trained on nothing at all . |
| 3 | In that moment of fear she remembered the Brownie Guide Law , which points out that ‘ a Brownie Guide thinks of others before herself and does a good turn every day . ’ |
| 4 | That 's right , I think what means something is this overall figure and then erm a kind of er an information giving part which points out that what , you know , what seventy five per cent of my twelve thousand had over sixty five |
| 5 | In 1986 , a new Explanatory Foreword to SSAPs was issued which points out that they only apply to nationalized industries because the Government requires them to . |
| 6 | She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed . |
| 7 | She points out that the cash squeeze could be relaxed quickly if Brazilian inflation really does perish from a single shot . |
| 8 | She points out that a 2.5 percentage point saving on the mortgage rate might easily be cancelled out by expensive compulsory insurance and a steep arrangement fee alone . |
| 9 | For borrowers who have built up a sizeable stake in their property , she points out that the Cheltenham & Gloucester ( 0452 372372 ) has reversed the usual lender 's practice of offering bigger discounts on larger loans . |
| 10 | Mary obviously understands the message of the angel to mean that she will conceive a child immediately , for she points out that she is unmarried . |
| 11 | She points out that at present local authorities have no duty to investigate alleged abuse , as in child abuse , and suggests this should be remedied . |
| 12 | She points out that we know little of the differential impact of changing material circumstances on different kinds of tending , and is surely right when she argues that it would be ‘ useful and interesting to discover how long term unemployment alters conjugal roles as far as caring is concerned ’ . |
| 13 | She points out that many insult terms for women developed from originally unisex words ( thus harlot once meant ‘ a young person ’ ) or endearments ( tart was once as ‘ innocent ’ as honey or sweetie ) . |
| 14 | Fathman ( 1975 ) also uses speed of learning as the explanatory variable for younger people learning more effectively , but she points out that the order of acquisition in second language learning does not change with age . |
| 15 | She points out that in specialties where the quality of the front line services is a matter of life and death — such as intensive care medicine or accident and emergency work — they are not provided by preregistration staff . |
| 16 | However , she points out that ‘ from a linguistic point of view we can only say that speech and writing are different : we can not say that one is superior to the other ’ ( ibid . ) . |
| 17 | She points out that what feminist thought has done is to take pornography out of its usual position in the argument between conservatives and liberals over censorship , and to put it into a completely different framework ( p. 137 ) . |
| 18 | She points out that much of a woman 's life is based on a spontaneity of moral response that many philosophers , in particular Hegel and Kant , would say had no moral worth ( McMillan , 1982 ) . |
| 19 | But she points out that men have also appropriated the female role ( which is more active ) as a painless metaphor for their own artistic endeavours : |
| 20 | Though she points out that Compact is not consistent in its use of the future , this description anticipates the development of the tense in Brooke-Rose 's own novel . |
| 21 | Writing in the British Medical Journal recently , she points out that between a quarter and a third of 15-year-olds smoke . |
| 22 | She points out that at the size S 1 the marginal benefit of the last inch is less than the marginal cost to you , which is also the amount you must be compensated for that last inch on the tree . |
| 23 | Mittwoch ( 1990 : 117 ) feels very similar impressions to those described by Cotte : like him , she points out that a sentence such as ( 218a ) seems contradictory whereas ( 218b ) does not : ( 218a ) * She let him stay at home yesterday but he chose to go to school all the same . |
| 24 | She points out that after battling against the booze for some years it only took a short relapse to destroy much of what she 'd worked for . |
| 25 | If parents really want to help their children , with reading specifically , I feel that Margaret Donaldson , who is and educational psychologist in Edinburgh , is correct when she points out that one of the greatest difficulties children have when they go to school is that many of them do n't understand what kind of activity reading is . |
| 26 | If parents really want to help their children , with reading specifically , I feel that Margaret Donaldson , who is and educational psychologist in Edinburgh , is correct when she points out that one of the greatest difficulties children have when they go to school is that many of them do n't understand what kind of activity reading is . |
| 27 | As a mother I warm to someone who observes that so many of the modern theories on childcare ‘ show utter contempt for women 's judgement ’ , and who points out that , when it comes to smacking , ‘ if we were talking about any other activity which was so widespread , people would say this was a method which was tried and tested and obviously worked . |
| 28 | It has recently been edited and translated into English by D. R. Hill , who points out that ‘ horologically , it provides an important link between the water-clocks of the Hellenistic world and those of Islam ’ . |
| 29 | Different problems but with similar consequences are occurring in the Philippines and have been described by Myers ( 1988 ) , who points out that the mainstay of the country 's economy is based on its natural resources , especially its forests . |
| 30 | The narrowness of the jets indicates that the dust flow is being confined by some other effect probably gas evaporating from the surrounding areas , according to Whipple , who points out that broad , unconfined fan-shaped jets are rare . |