Example sentences of "can [adv] point " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can only point out the immoral lifestyle that accompanied his profession and the evidence of spiritual deceit . |
| 2 | No one , for example , can take hold of twenty-five million pounds ' worth of health services and say that these , and these precisely , are owed to the fact of a prescription charge : you can not point to the beds , the treatments , the nurses and demonstrate that these would not individually have been provided , however undeniable the fact may be in general . |
| 3 | But , so far , government officials involved in negotiating the 1992 directives can not point to instances of the Germans becoming more obstructive . |
| 4 | You can not point to a wave and say , ‘ that is the wave I rode ’ , as you can say , ‘ that is the mountain I climbed ’ . |
| 5 | B is sailing in the curved air behind A's sail and can not point very high . |
| 6 | Quine suggests very plausibly that , even if experience shows something to be wrong with a theory , it can not point a finger at any particular hypothesis . |
| 7 | The combs of the nest , in both wild and domestic colonies , are vertical so now the waggle-steps can not point directly to the food source . |
| 8 | Often , however , one can not point to any specific word signalling the speaker 's point of view . |
| 9 | Even if the court can not point to the actual error , nevertheless , if the figure is so extravagantly large or so inadequately small that the only conclusion is that he must have gone wrong somewhere , then the court will interfere in much the same way as the Court of Appeal will interfere with an award of damages if it is a wholly erroneous estimate . |
| 10 | On the Continent Sarna can already point to 25 year old installations which are still perfectly watertight — in conditions far more severe than those encountered in the UK . |
| 11 | It 's OK in a caff — you can just ask for egg and chips or if they have pictures you can just point , but I think I might have trouble in a restaurant cos you got to read from a menu thing , and I have a bit of trouble with my reading . |
| 12 | It 's pretty good here — they got photos of food all lit up over the counter so you can just point . |
| 13 | Before you and I can ever point a finger to Pilate , what have you done , what have I done with Jesus that is called Christ ? |
| 14 | Sexual intimacy , or the absence of it , can also point the way towards greater intimacy with God . |
| 15 | ‘ Whispers ’ can also point to aspects of our inner world which need attention . |
| 16 | They can also point to real improvements made in the past few years : a rationalisation of economic-development agencies , say , or a tightening up of Medicaid billing procedures . |
| 17 | We can also point to grammatical parallelisms which , although not devoid of content , merely seem to have an elaborative function , providing further examples of a concept already expressed : " The sweetest rose hath his prickle " already conveys , by proverbial extension , the meaning " even the best things are alloyed with bad " , and to that extent , the repetition of the pattern in " the finest velvet his brack , the fairest flour his bran " , is redundant.Lyly might not , one imagines , have added his last piece of pattern , the similitude of sanctity , unless he had hit on the alliteration of " holiest head " and " wicked way " . |
| 18 | We can also point to the difference in degree of deviance between 4 and 5 , which is out of all proportion to any difference of meaning between complete and finish . |
| 19 | You can also point , well you start , you can point at the root directory , if you wanted to . |
| 20 | Everton can also point to a strong international element in Leena Chagla , an Indian doctor who works at the Royal and keeps goal for them , as well as two German girls , Sylke Klaus and Gabi Von Voight . |
| 21 | But the people of Princes Risborough can now point to a permanent reminder of a man they have never forgotten . |
| 22 | In the light of the order of events involved in the earlier conversion to Schopenhauer , we can surely point to this moment as decisive . |
| 23 | You , if you are well informed , can then point out that there 's a way in which he can get tax relief on his donations . |
| 24 | I had hoped that the allegations of fraud might make our path easier on this one , but the Admiral himself admits that there really is no legal transgression that he can yet point to . |
| 25 | It is true that no figures are mentioned in such summings-up , but they can certainly point towards the minimal or astronomical . |