Example sentences of "can point to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historians can point to the philosophical views which underlay this ambition , and artists and sculptors were in various ways affected by the demonstration of its realisation in the theatre built for the composer at Bayreuth . |
| 2 | On the positive side CAMRA can point to the success of the independent brewers , many of whom would not exist today but for the interest in cask ale generated by the Campaign . |
| 3 | With hindsight one can point to the underground man complaining that if he could manage even to loaf and idle around wholeheartedly he would be able to call himself a lazy man . |
| 4 | This year he can point to … well , the trials of more than 700 dissidents , more political prisoners , repression in Tibet . |
| 5 | These views concern the fact that the singular particular things which we can point to and pick out with the words ‘ this ’ and ‘ that ’ , and to which we often give names , such as ‘ James ’ or ‘ John ’ , are not thought of as being merely particular . |
| 6 | Older Protestants can point to examples of Catholic persecution from their own lifetimes : in Spain under Franco or in a number of Latin American countries in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 7 | Thus , although the Labour movement has had no great success in squeezing the capitalists until the pips squeak , its leaders can point to a variety of real improvements in the living standards of the working class as good reason for continued support for their moderating policy . |
| 8 | Like Cooke and Best , the B gang can point to four wins out of four this season . |
| 9 | Wasps , though , can point to a mighty league record — in four seasons they have been champions , second ( twice ) and third . |
| 10 | Those who have always believed that the war was between Maronites and the rest — the forces of the Gemayels and the Chamouns against Lebanese Muslims and Palestinians — can point to the Phalangist massacre , on 13 April 1975 , of 27 Palestinians who were travelling by bus through the Beirut suburb of Ein al-Rumaneh . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , several groups continued to work on nomenclature problems and one can point to the French Saint-Etienne meeting of 1897 , and the independent work of Hantzsch , Widman and von Baeyer , which laid the foundation of modern organic nomenclature . |
| 12 | Fluctuations can point to ore deposits . |
| 13 | I do n't think you can point to GM 's relationships with Lotus having any effect on that at all . |
| 14 | We can point to many instances where clear safety improvements have been effected by not simply accepting FAA requirements . |
| 15 | Secret The solution to this trick lies in the fact that , while the children can point to which lines they like or say which colour cards they like the best , you decide which cards to take away . |
| 16 | For extra effect you can say ‘ Are you sure you would not like to change your mind ’ or ‘ I want you to be sure that you can point to whichever line you like . ’ |
| 17 | The former can point to the great difference between doubt and unbelief and the latter to the great similarity . |
| 18 | In addition to the objections already raised , such as the promotion of the goal of utilitarianism by questionable means , we can point to the fact that as compared with sarvodaya it shows a lack of humanity . |
| 19 | No mean guitar player and bassist himself , Stephen can point to a collection of guitars which simply do n't get used often enough . |
| 20 | While comparatively few in number , Newfoundland rugby players are obviously on the right track and Parfrey , an enthusiastic provincial coach , can point to solid recent growth . |
| 21 | Those who advocate caution in allowing a rapid decline in interest rates , and in consequence a further devaluation of the pound , can point to the period of sterling 's membership of the ERM as the most effective discipline the UK has experienced — an incentive to force down both inflation and interest rates . |
| 22 | They can point to all those young married women with degrees who sit at home and grumble . ’ |
| 23 | Allowing then that international law , at least at present , sets out to control force and therefore to preserve peace , those who would deny its status as law can point to its failure in this respect . |
| 24 | By way of total contrast , I can point to Birchfield sprinter Phil Brown , who never really felt himself to be any different from other school children and admitted to having ‘ no identity with other blacks ’ . |
| 25 | To choose one of many examples , I can point to the case of Nottingham-born Herol Graham , whose parents came from Jamaica and gave him no support in his sporting endeavours , at first in sprinting and then in boxing where he made his mark as a light-middleweight . |
| 26 | However , we can point to a good deal of information on the effectiveness of signing in communication and in various aspects of language development ( Moores , 1978 ; Quigley , 1979 ) . |
| 27 | Clearly many are dissatisfied and feel that they can point to declining standards ( e.g. in the numeracy of engineering apprentices ) , but this situation is more likely to reflect changing social patterns of recruitment rather than a real decline in ‘ educational standards ’ . |
| 28 | More recently , one can point to the ways in which the press covers industrial relations news or news about welfare . |
| 29 | For example , a number of groups have described patients who can point to the location of briefly flashed stimuli , even though they deny seeing them . |
| 30 | Of course Marxists can point to Allende 's subsequent overthrow by the Chilean military to help demonstrate that peaceful socialist transformation will not be permitted . |