Example sentences of "point [adv prt] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I just wanted to point out that on this criteria , it does n't appear to be one that the county council has listed . |
| 2 | But she 's keen to point out that at her school you 'll learn to ride like a real cowboy and NOT like John Wayne . |
| 3 | Useless for Boswell to point out that notwithstanding the title ‘ Doctor ’ , physick did not belong in Johnson 's otherwise comprehensive repertoire , and here it was that the landlord made a distinction which so pleased Johnson : ‘ They say he is the greatest man in England , except Lord Mansfield . ’ |
| 4 | It is unfashionable to point out that for most of his two decades in office Marcos enjoyed considerable grass-roots favour . |
| 5 | And although we now know the facts for many species of animals , it is important to point out that for many more we still have only the crudest knowledge of their grouping behaviour . |
| 6 | Notwithstanding this assault on our raison d'être , I do n't regret my involvement , and wish to point out that without both the enthusiasm generated by Johanna , and her experience of what was required from the group , my own involvement would have been non existent . |
| 7 | Holt was at pains to point out that from his garden , if he stood on tiptoe , craned his neck and employed both imagination and compass he could , perhaps , in the right light , makes out the Drus . |
| 8 | You were right to point out that from now until polling day , whenever it may be , will be somewhat tortuous not just for the watching public but for Members who sit in this Chamber . |
| 9 | As Alan Cantwell , the intermediates manager , pointed out ‘ any spillages can be controlled in minutes ’ and he was also keen to point out that in the 18 months since it was commissioned , ‘ no spillages have occurred ’ . |
| 10 | Adopting a paternal tone , however , Justinian went on to point out that in the case of bequests under conditions or uncertain terms it would also be best to refrain from alienation to avoid the possibility of grave expense arising from ensuing eviction . |
| 11 | These authors are right to point out that in cross sectional analyses it is difficult to make assumptions of causality . |
| 12 | The growled admission obviously gave him no pleasure , and Gina decided it wiser not to point out that in fact he had n't recalled his generosity until she had prompted his memory ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Before proceeding with the details , it is worth pointing out that at least one influential modern article on the theory of the firm denies that authority is the essence of the firm . |
| 16 | Pointing out that on thc Left Bank , Côte 304 and most of the Mort Homme had now been captured , he urged the irresolute Commander-in-Chief that all could yet be won at Verdun , if only the offensive were continued on the Right Bank . |
| 17 | Some three months later , on 5 June 1824 , he wrote to the Central Committee pointing out that as the bulk of shipwrecks on the island were from ‘ the surrounding kingdoms ’ it would be of benefit to all maritime interests for lifeboat stations to be established by the national organisation . |
| 18 | Heather played the pacifist role , pointing out that despite all the litter and dead sheep it was quite a nice campsite . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I think it worth pointing out that of course erm when Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister for a brief time I think Lady Young was Leader of the House of Lords in her cabinet , but apart from that there was never another women cabinet minister during her time as leader , so |
| 21 | Accounts of the problems of this region usually begin by pointing out that after the 1914 War the overheated heavy industries of the North East were severely affected by a change in market demand away from their products , that these problems were exacerbated by central government 's exchange policies , and that in consequence the integrated economic structure — the organized capitalism — of the pre-war and war years collapsed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Fforde highlights a key difficulty for his argument by pointing out that in the debates about the issue which dominated Edwardian Conservatism — tariff reform — the Conservative Party developed a language which ‘ employed a great deal of anti- laissez faire rhetoric and espoused policies which involved state expansion ’ . |
| 24 | Bouton ( e.g. 1988 , 1990 ) has argued against this summation notion , pointing out that in his own experiments the size of the CR seems to be uninfluenced by the associative value of background cues . |
| 25 | The following month , in the same journal , a swift refutation of these tenets came in the shape of a letter from a consultant histopathologist by name of J.V. Clark , who responds to the last point regarding the relations ' not understanding what is being asked when a postmortem is requested , by pointing out that in all probability funeral directors do not explain the procedure of embalming to the next of kin and , more seriously , maintaining that delay would reduce the maximum benefit of an autopsy and also delay the funeral . |
| 26 | Appadurai ( 1986 ) provides a survey of some of the relevant literature , pointing out that in some respects commodities are not necessarily as divorced from wider cultural considerations as is often supposed . |
| 27 | I shall not anticipate the arguments here , but it is worth pointing out that in a context of incomes policy , struggles over enterprise policy and operations would assume an increased importance : if wage-determination were conducted on a more centralised basis then the focus of collective bargaining at enterprise level would have to change . |
| 28 | One might expand the metaphor further by pointing out that in the interval between the arrival of successive carpets , several of the existing pile would probably have been sold and removed from the succession . |
| 29 | Finally in this section , it is worth pointing out that in the first Unit of this course we learnt that organisations which were based on an open system ( where information flowed in and out through a ‘ permeable boundary ’ to its environment and publics and where adjustment was made in the light of feedback ) , were more able to adapt to change and continue to prosper . |
| 30 | I have seen the report and am considering its implications carefully , but it is just worth pointing out that in 11 of the past 12 Budgets we have taken steps to encourage employee share ownership to the extent that by the end of March last year about 2.25 million employees had benefited under all employee share schemes and had received options or shares with an initial value of £6.5 billion . |