Example sentences of "we have [adv] pointed [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in this particular lesson the decision structure is something of a mirage , for as we have already pointed out at this stage the situation is not real enough for these children to be making anything but a superficial gesture — going through the motions of making a decision . |
| 2 | As we have already pointed out , the crime rate in general is increasing for all age groups , and there is little evidence that juvenile criminality is increasing at a very much greater rate than crime in general . |
| 3 | As we have already pointed out , the analyst typically treats conversational data as something complete , as a static product of some recorded interaction . |
| 4 | As we have already pointed out , it is best to build in pause points for any writing that has to be done , otherwise parts of the programme will be missed as students look down at their papers . |
| 5 | We have already pointed out that atonal music can be written not by obscuring tonal structures but by ignoring conventional harmonies altogether and using only note-combinations which avoid the suggestion of tonalities . |
| 6 | We have already pointed out that clarinets in unison with high trumpets give them increased roundness of tone and certainty of attack . |
| 7 | On the aesthetic side , the dominance of the musical element in Tristan did , as it happens , bring Wagner 's art somewhat into line with Schopenhauer 's theories , although , as we have already pointed out , the sensuous-emotional appeal of Wagnerian music , at its most extreme in Tristan , directly flouted the philosopher 's denial of all worldly values . |
| 8 | However , we have already pointed out , by implication , one very important syntactic consequence : only the ascriptive adjectives are eligible to appear predicatively , that is , in a position like that of hungry in : ( 19 ) the antelopes are hungry As was already indicated in Chapter 1 , and as we shall see in more detail in Chapter 3 , predicative position is the surface structure which expresses the intensional relation of assignment , and assignment does require that the property of the adjective should be construed as applied to the entity of the subject noun phrase . |
| 9 | As we have already pointed out a number of times , the predicative position is the surface structure which marks assignment of the property of the adjective to the entity of the subject ; but it goes without saying that the subject of a sentence can not be merely a relation between two parts of itself ; therefore an adjective which is specialized to qualify the relation between entity and description is automatically excluded from predicative position for that reason . |
| 10 | We have already pointed out that there can be no claim by dependants for grief or for loss of society of the deceased nor can there be any claim on behalf of the children for loss of a mother 's love , guidance and influence . |