Example sentences of "points [adv prt] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He points out that under John Akers , IBM has built its desktop computing business to $8,500m in worldwide sales in 1991 , giving it 19% market share ; remained the worldwide leader in information technology revenues , at $62,800m last year up nearly 30% from $48,500m in 1985 when Akers took over ; and avoided the worst crisis that could have befallen it — which would have been to sacrifice investments in research and development for the sake of a fast buck — it spent $6,600m last year . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A sudden variation in sentence complexity may help to give this effect : Norman Page points out that at the beginning of Jane Austen 's Emma , the three-word sentence " Miss Taylor married " stands out momentously against a background of longer sentences ( the average sentence length for the first five paragraphs of the novel being 26.5 words ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He points out that at present some two-thirds of output by value is of commodity materials as opposed to the more profitable effect chemicals . |
| 6 | He points out that on April 24th , 1906 the Emperor Nicholas II addressed the deputies of his first Duma , stating that the Duma represented the ‘ rebirth of her best forces ’ . |
| 7 | And he points out that on the day in question , there were several serious emergencies , including the case of an eight year old boy who died . |
| 8 | Ken Schofield , executive director of the PGA European Tour , points out that on the debit side there will also be huge expenses and says : ‘ We shall not be able to assess the likely profit for some months . |
| 9 | Ken Schofield , executive director of the PGA European Tour , points out that on the debit side there will also be huge expenses and says : ‘ We shall not be able to assess the likely profit for some months . |
| 10 | The report points out that over the past two years there have been international hotel mergers and acquisitions worth $8.8b ( £5.5b ) . |
| 11 | ‘ The national campaign points out that over the past year as more and more hospitals have opted out of health authority control a two-tier system in health care has developed . |
| 12 | He points out that of some 200 applications of force by the United States , only five have been ‘ solemnified ’ ( his word ) by a declaration of war . |
| 13 | Toward 2000 , points out that with the production of fuelwood expected to fall short by 40 per cent , ‘ many poor people will not be able to cook their food adequately . |
| 14 | Managing director of Torquay Leisure Hotels , Laurence Murrell , points out that for the system to be financially successful , the units must run for the maximum possible number of hours . |
| 15 | However , Lea points out that for writers like Gilroy racism is embodied in the conscious policies and practices of the police as an institution and that it is difficult to argue that the police are de-politicising black struggles , and criminalising them , when some of them , such as the Spaghetti House siege , used crime to obtain political funds , and hence the police responded to the event as crime . |
| 16 | LATEST BBC Radio Ulster figures show a weekly reach of 31pc , and the BBC points out that for a distinctive , speech-based service , that 's a remarkable catchment of almost one in three of the adult population . |
| 17 | Writing in the British Medical Journal recently , she points out that between a quarter and a third of 15-year-olds smoke . |
| 18 | And it is here that we come to the nub , theoretically , of the problem with Adorno 's whole approach to listening Dick Bradley ( n.d. ) points out that within a Marxist framework production and consumption can not properly be given the near-identity which Adorno attributes to them . |
| 19 | Myers points out that by 1986 the population in the uplands was in excess of 18 million , representing one-third of the total , mainly rurally based , population . |
| 20 | Mr. Collins then points out that by rule 2.12(1) , Lautro requires its members to establish and maintain procedures by reference to which appointed representatives can ensure that they comply with Lautro 's rules . |
| 21 | Llewellyn ( 1986 ) points out that until 1974 banking supervision was carried out by the Bank 's Discount Office , which was responsible for money market operations . |
| 22 | As an example of this interconnection Althusser points out that among the relations of production of capitalist societies are the buying and selling of labour power by capitalists and workers . |
| 23 | Peter Chang , of the government 's Council for Economic Planning and Development , points out that among countries with more than 10m people , Taiwan 's population density ranks second only to Bangladesh 's . |
| 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 | Tracing this back to the seventeenth century , he points out that in such times , it is ‘ always those crimes that are associated with the materially disadvantaged underclass which have provided the continuing thread within this history of respectable fears … |
| 26 | It points out that in 1989 government revenue was £18.1 billion , made up of £2.9 billion from road tax , £1.5 billion from car tax , £5 billion from VAT and £8.7 billion from fuel taxes . |
| 27 | The trial was streamlined : Mr Dixon 's own lawyer points out that in a $1.3 billion S$L failure , the government came up with charges involving only $600,000 . |
| 28 | Mr Erik Sondén , the managing director of SIPA , points out that in the tiny Swedish market values of investment properties have gone only one way over the past ten years : up . |
| 29 | He points out that in 1960 , married black women could have expected to have 3.49 children ; if they had continued to reproduce at this rate , the out-of-wedlock rate among black women would have increased from 23% in 1960 to just 29% in 1987 , and gone almost unnoticed . |
| 30 | Joseph Rothschild points out that in the inter-war period , the whole of Eastern Europe , excluding Russia , produced only eight per cent of European industrial production and that a third of that came from Czechoslovakia . |