Example sentences of "have point [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allan Megill has pointed out that an alternative ‘ meaning ’ of the phrase is , ‘ there is no inserted plate ’ ( a French dictionary defines ‘ hors-texte ’ as ‘ Gravure , planche tirée á part et intercalée dans un livre ’ ) . |
| 2 | Jean-Marie Balestre , the president of FISA , has pointed out that the regulations permit an immediate ban regardless of any appeal and there would appear to be no further argument on that point . |
| 3 | Its efficacy may also be questioned : the RFAC 's chairman , Lord St John of Fawsley , has pointed out that gates which must be opened and shut will merely attract attention to the Prime Minister 's movements . |
| 4 | The writer , Christopher Stell , has pointed out that of some 600 ‘ architects ’ whose buildings were described in the Congregational Union 's Year Books in the nineteenth century , ‘ very few ’ are credited with having built more than one or two . |
| 5 | Sutton Water Company has pointed out that it has imposed a sprinkler ban , not a hosepipe ban as stated in Tuesday 's paper . |
| 6 | The Institute of Directors has pointed out that ‘ the 5th Company Law Directive has been under discussion since 1972 , with no agreement yet in sight ’ . |
| 7 | Sir Julian Bullard , a former British Ambassador to Bonn , has pointed out that ‘ some Germans argue , in a single confident jump , from the reduced military threat from the East to the possibility of a world without alliances or without nuclear weapons ’ . |
| 8 | Ratcliffe ( 1968 ) has pointed out that lower-lying areas of the Outer Hebrides are rather drier than the mountains of these islands , but are nevertheless much wetter than low-lying areas of the eastern Highlands . |
| 9 | Someone has pointed out that this would require an ability to control the Royal Mail to ensure that letters did not get lost ! |
| 10 | Gunnell has pointed out that , unlike the Greeks , the Hebrews never tried to analyse the ‘ problem ’ of time as such . |
| 11 | Jim Pines has pointed out that |
| 12 | He has pointed out that platelet aggregates grow very rapidly and , although platelet adhesion to collagen is almost instantaneous , there is a lag period ( several seconds ) before aggregation proceeds ( Wilner et al , 1969 ) . |
| 13 | Moreover , Tucker ( 1987 ) has pointed out that the first period of large-scale deforestation in northern India occurred in the 1850s and 1860s as the British colonisation of India gained momentum and railways were constructed to gain access to the upper Ganges and Indus plains . |
| 14 | Michael Fullan ( 1988 ) has pointed out that to change practice in classrooms involves changing beliefs and attitudes as well as changing teaching materials and approaches — though such ‘ changes in attitudes , belief and understanding tended to follow rather than precede changes in behaviour . ’ |
| 15 | However , Drummond ( 1989 ) has pointed out that there are dangers in drawing up formularies in a too simplistic way , merely considering the comparative costs of the drugs themselves . |
| 16 | Stake has pointed out that ‘ most evaluation specialists have chosen not to judge ’ even though many educationalists try to get them to do this . |
| 17 | Paul Craddock of the British Museum Research Laboratory has pointed out that the silver in metals used at Igbo Ukwu would almost certainly have been recovered by European and Arab smiths of the period , while the unusually low iron content suggests the copper was made by a very primitive technology . |
| 18 | AMAX has pointed out that the mine could create 350 new jobs . |
| 19 | John Wimber has pointed out that other factors are also involved when a congregation , or housegroup meet for worship . |
| 20 | Noel Redding has pointed out that what hit home to people about Jimi Hendrix , apart from his guitar playing and in many instances more so , was his extraordinary voice . |
| 21 | Vijaya Samaraweera has pointed out that the ideal viewpoint for understanding the colonial legal system is that of the ‘ typical litigant ’ . |
| 22 | Richard Gombrich has pointed out that the idea of truth as an autonomous secular value has no firm base in Sinhalese village society . |
| 23 | Martin Hardie , in English Coloured Books ( 1906 ) has pointed out that Ackermann 's Microcosm of London ( 1810 ) contains 104 plates and that a thousand copies were printed , thus involving , for this work alone , the meticulous hand-colouring of 104,000 separate plates . |
| 24 | The feminist thinker Hélène Cixous has pointed out that this is a longstanding tradition of Western thought . |
| 25 | Arguing against the project , the independent scholar Cesare d'Onofrio has pointed out that ‘ the proposed creation of an archaeological park would involve excavating down five to six metres below the present level and the creation of an immense basin stretching from the edge of Piazza Venezia and engulfing whole areas of the city up to the Porta Appia and beyond , embracing in its metal fences and walls not only the Forums , the Colosseum , the Domus Aurea , the Oppian and Coelian hills , the Circus Maximus etc. but , of necessity , a whole series of churches and medieval , Renaissance and baroque basilicas which would stand wrenched both from their historical context and from their place in the daily life of modern Rome ’ . |
| 26 | In France Sellier ( 1978 ) has pointed out that the ( late ) appearance of employers ' organisations oriented towards labour rather than commercial interests , in 1919 and again in 1936 , corresponded to two periods of social crisis and state intervention towards resolving it . |
| 27 | He has pointed out that both our own experience and Marx 's writings suggest that changes result from a disparate collection of circumstances which can not be reduced to a single contradiction , but are jointly sufficient for a situation to become volatile . |
| 28 | James Grant , the editor of a New York newsletter , has pointed out that the value of outstanding contracts in the gold-futures market is a little over $1 billion . |
| 29 | O. J. Braddick ( personal communication ) has pointed out that unlike monocular perspective cues , the differential perspective cues described here could be exploited without the need to make assumptions about the homogeneity or isotropy of the elements making up the surface . |
| 30 | Kornhauser ( 1978 ) has pointed out that the main tenets of control theory are to be found in the ideas of the pioneers of sociological criminology — the sociologists of the Chicago school , working in the early decades of this century ( Thrasher , 1927 ; Shaw , 1929 ) . |