Example sentences of "[noun prp] points [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon Taylor points out in last Friday 's Echo Soccer in Crisis investigation that not all players enjoy rich rewards from the game when their careers can be cut short . |
| 2 | Poorly paid employment on Lebanese construction sites — as David Gilmour points out in his Dispossessed — was the fate of many of the farmers and labourers of Palestine . |
| 3 | All positive stuff , as Madeleine Kingsley points out on page 82 , if only you approach it in the right way . |
| 4 | As Ian Macdonald points out in The New Immigration Law ( Butterworths , 1972 ) : |
| 5 | As Lowry points out in her article , teaching does not have the same status as research . |
| 6 | Scottish bothies are indeed being misused as Mike Wilson-Roberts points out in your August issue . |
| 7 | As Victor Saunders points out in his chapter on the Caucasus in The Mountains of Europe ( Oxford Illustrated Press ) , of the ten highest summits , nine received their first ascent from members of the Alpine Club — admittedly including honorary member Vittorio Sella who was Italian , not British . |
| 8 | As Charles Medawar points out in his seminal study , Power and Dependence ( Social Audit , £10 ) , it was not until the 1980s that benzodiazepine dependency became recognized as an iatrogenic problem , a disease caused by medicine itself . |
| 9 | Of course , Thomas Luis de Victoria is better known than Juan Gutièrez de Padilla but , as Bruno Turner points out in his informative programme note , he is ‘ undoubtedly the finest composer of the colonial period to come from Old Spain and spend nearly all his productive life in the New Spain ’ . |
| 10 | Therefore , as Ernest Tuveson points out in Imagination as a Means of Grace : ‘ From the nature of mind as described by Locke we could expect a new poetry to be highly visual in nature , for the faculty of sight came to monopolize the analysis of intellectual activity . ’ |
| 11 | As Amrit Wilson points out in the catalogue , Orientalism allows the artist to project on to the Orient ‘ all those aspects of his nature which he has learnt to hate and fear : the contradictions between Judaeo-Christian morality and his own sexuality , between the work ethic and his longing for intense aesthetic and sensuous experiences … ’ |
| 12 | Immanuel Yelikovsky 's idea that the Earth stopped rotating in Old Testament times is attractive , as Martin Gardner points out in his recent Science , Good , Bad and Bogus , because it seems to verify the Old Testament . |
| 13 | Fourth , the absence of penalties for abuses , such as involvement in price-fixing , means that firms have every incentive to engage in anticompetitive behaviour until they are discovered , as Williams points out in this issue . |
| 14 | The trouble is , as Rosemary Nicol points out in her book Hormone Replacement Therapy : Your Guide to Making An Informed Choice , HRT is not simply a matter of going to your GP and getting a prescription . |
| 15 | As John Fletcher points out in his introduction , the element of the conference that could not be documented is the presence of Kristeva herself , her generous responses to papers , the dialogues which she sustained throughout . |
| 16 | As Nigel Roebuck points out in his book with Mario , ‘ on 21 June 1964 , Jackie Stewart ( born seven months before Mario ) would have been racing Ken Tyrrell 's F3 Cooper somewhere and James Hunt playing tennis at Wellington College . |
| 17 | As Rose points out in Sexism in the Secondary Curriculum , ( 1983 ) , despite the fact that English is a subject popular with girls , and one in which they often succeed , it is also the subject which can damage a girl 's self-esteem and aspirations . |
| 18 | As Hannah points out in his historical study of the development of the corporate economy , during the course of the present century British industry was transformed from ‘ a disaggregated structure of predominantly small , competing firms to a concentrated structure dominated by large , and often monopolistic , corporations ’ . |
| 19 | There was , of course , as Basil Dmytryshyn points out in Chapter 1 , no grand design or masterplan for the original Russian conquest of Siberia . |
| 20 | But as Robins points out in a later paper , a wide variety of anti-social childhood behaviour predicts a wide variety of adult deviant behaviour , rather than , as some have claimed , particular behaviour being predictive of specific offences ( e.g. conduct disorder predicting property but not person offences ) . |
| 21 | As Nisbet points out in his review of the ‘ sociological tradition ’ , the thesis of the eclipse of an older form of community recurs throughout much of the nineteenth and early twentieth century sociological tradition . |
| 22 | As Hilary Land points out in the first of her articles reproduced here , the TUC had been ambivalent and suspicious about the introduction of family allowances throughout the 1930s . |
| 23 | Alec Samuels , a reader in Law in the University of Southampton points out in the journal Medicine Science , and Law . |
| 24 | Reminding us that Sutherland 's answer was definitely not , Hopkins points out with insight that this negative answer was only possible because Sutherland conflated individual and corporate crime , thus reducing large rambling enterprises with thousands of employees to a single entity . |
| 25 | Kochan points out from 1895 to 1905 the strike movement grew , increasingly it had political rather than simple economic concerns . |
| 26 | Although the sensually expressive quality of soft media-conte , pastel and charcoal is usually hard to resist , it has a tendency to lend images , ‘ a spurious intensity and generously masks ineptitude ’ , as Deanna Petherbridge points out in her catalogue essay The Primacy of Drawing . |
| 27 | She believes that there is nothing worse than marry without any affection but on the other hand it would be very absurd Lady Bertram points out to Fanny that it is every woman 's duty to marry a rich man but she is blinded to the fact that this is not the only improvement that can take place in a marriage . |
| 28 | However , as Julia Lourie points out in a House of Commons Brief : |
| 29 | But , as American author Ford Rogers points out in his fascinating new book Citrus : A Cookbook , they are versatile cooking ingredients . |
| 30 | As Sinclair points out in his introduction ( p. xix ) , this fact about frequency does not determine the order of appearance of dictionary entries : there is the factor of the native speakers ' sense of what is the core meaning , for example . |