Example sentences of "have [adv] pointed out " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the hon. Gentleman has rightly pointed out , those funds are of importance to us in the provision of our capital infrastructure , although they are not totally significant . |
| 2 | The hon. Member for Wiltshire , North ( Mr. Needham ) , the Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland , has rightly pointed out the complete disregard for the Geneva convention on the part of the perpetrators of this appalling outrage . |
| 3 | As one commentator has thus pointed out , ‘ [ a ] lthough the relationship between compensation and corporate performance is statistically significant , it is not economically significant ’ . |
| 4 | The Canto as a whole , whatever its incidental obscurities , is plainly concerned with the phenomenon of ‘ the living dead ’ , focussed in part , as Ronald Bush has invaluably pointed out , on the old men , Clemenceau , Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson , legislating at Versailles for a future they had no part in . |
| 5 | Stefano Tani has already pointed out that Calvino 's idea of observation , within his wider poetic of ‘ seeing ’ , is a different matter from the ‘ impassive and indifferent , basically blind , gaze that we have inherited from the nouveau roman ’ . |
| 6 | Peter Taylor , of the Political Ecology Research Group , has already pointed out the above-average numbers of cases of leukaemia in Barrow , Cumberland and Westmoreland , although he says ; ‘ Any link to the pattern of 1957 fallout can be ruled out because of the very low doses and the nature of the radioactivity . ’ |
| 7 | But that was three weeks ago , as the Substitute Prosecutor has already pointed out to you . |
| 8 | has already pointed out , in Bank of Baroda v. Shah [ 1988 ] 3 All E.R. |
| 9 | This Report has already pointed out that something more than singing and playing may lie needed if boys and girls are to remain part of a choir or music group . |
| 10 | As Fisher ( 1990 ) has already pointed out the community care reforms are being designed as if everyone who is to receive services feels equally happy about that fact , and can express a reliable opinion about their own need for care , and the success of the service in meeting their needs . |
| 11 | As My Noble Friend Lord Allen has already pointed out today , suppose two elected members are ill or on holiday , and natural enough assumption taken over the years , are important decisions to be taken by that authority in such a situation ? |
| 12 | So precisely what Mr Hill has already pointed out to you in the discussion which he 's had with you . |
| 13 | Criminal libel is an ancient offence which is now unlikely to be invoked against the media by prosecuting authorities : the Law Commission has recommended its abolition , and one Law Lord has further pointed out that its scope conflicts with the European Convention on Human Rights . |
| 14 | Stead ( 1980 : 305 ) , like Mervyn Jones ( 1980 ) , has also pointed out how police organization attributes low status to beat work , and asks the service to reconsider the value of the patrol officer : |
| 15 | He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire . |
| 16 | As Toni Pickard has saliently pointed out , it is possible for a man to ascertain whether a woman is consenting or not with minimal effort . |
| 17 | The present legal position does not cater adequately for such contingencies , as Greengross ( 1986 ) has cogently pointed out . |
| 18 | But , as McQuail ( 1987 , pp. 275–6 ) himself has recently pointed out , most of the accumulated evidence is inconclusive and the media-dominated agenda-setting hypothesis has ‘ the status of a plausible but unproven idea ’ . |
| 19 | Hic Mulier is not only shameless but , as Sandra Clark has recently pointed out , she suggests that shame itself ‘ is a concept framed by men to subordinate women to the dictates of arbitrary custom ’ ( ‘ Controversy ’ , 175 ) . |
| 20 | As Oliver ( 1986 ) has recently pointed out , the word was originally used in respect of those who cared for dependent adult relatives , mostly elderly people : |
| 21 | Furthermore , as Tony Prosser has recently pointed out with reference to the Child Poverty Action Group 's ( CFAG 's ) social welfare test cases , there is always the danger that ‘ successful test cases which threaten established policy , especially by increasing expenditure , will meet with quick nullification by legislative or administrative action ’ ( Prosser , 1983 , p. 74 ) . |
| 22 | The CBI has recently pointed out how important inward investment is to this country , and pointed to the success of this Government in attracting it — a success not assisted by some in the Labour movement , who call it ’ alien ’ . |
| 23 | Dr Lee has recently pointed out that although the resources which went into the exporting industries could have been channelled elsewhere , the return would almost certainly have been less : " An eighteenth-century economy without resource to trade would have been smaller , less diversified and must have generated less growth even than the modest rate of increase actually achieved . " |
| 24 | Professor John Brewer has recently pointed out that the capital value of the fleet at the end of the eighteenth century was perhaps five times greater than the £402,651 at which the West Riding woollen manufacture was valued in 1801 . |
| 25 | As Dr O'Brien has recently pointed out , in effect British governments between 1714 and 1815 constructed a revenue system from component parts which enabled them to increase tax revenues per head from Europe 's most rapidly growing population much more successfully than the French from the end of the eighteenth century , despite having been less heavily taxed up to then . |
| 26 | Although it is true , as Charles Muscatine has recently pointed out , that it is inappropriate and impossible to seek to classify fabliaux in toto as representing one of the styles of Latin rhetoric recognized in the medieval schools — humilis , medius or gravis : low , middle or high — fabliau authors can call up such a range of styles for good local effect . |
| 27 | ‘ I thought I 'd already pointed out , this is my boat . ’ |
| 28 | And when Laura had protested , as she frequently had , he had merely pointed out with brutal logic , ‘ You knew I was a businessman when you married me , Laura . |
| 29 | The NDI observer group , claiming that the elections were " generally open , orderly and well-administered " , had nevertheless pointed out that " the caretaker government 's use of the perquisites of incumbency " had seemed " to have given an advantage to one of the contesting parties " — presumed to be a reference to the IDA . |
| 30 | They wore mushroom-shaped hats topped with glittering brass spikes , and white cloths fluttered at their necks to protect them from the sun ; all of them were barefoot , but Joseph noticed that their leg wrappings were yellow — the colour , as Tran Van Hieu had already pointed out , which was worn only by the emperor and his immediate entourage . |