Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] that the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It certainly seemed that a chapter of my life was closing , and I felt even more disgruntled when I found out that the other girls had all managed to get postings near their homes for their final few months in the Service . |
| 2 | The officers of Jubert 's company , then in reserve , were playing cards when word came back that the forward positions had been overrun and had to be instantly retaken . |
| 3 | You may work out that the two holes have to be of a suitable size for an individual ( ? ) to put two fingers in , possibly near enough to each other to put two fingers of the same hand in , and , having established this scale , it seems likely that the object referred to as the finger stop is only centimetres removed , rather than kilometres removed . |
| 4 | Would not such a visit provide a glorious opportunity to point out that the assisted places scheme — among other major educational advances — would be abolished under a Labour Government , thereby denying many bright children in the Duchy the opportunity of a first-rate education ? |
| 5 | This is not to deny that plan-making is a very valuable function of our local authorities ; it is rather to point out that the existing powers to implement their plans are restricted by the price that the market puts on some land , and by the fact that the planners ' resource is in the hands of private owners rather than at the disposal of the community . |
| 6 | We should , however , like to point out that the extra beds will usually be fold-away or camp bed style and that you may find floor and drawer space cramped . |
| 7 | However , he failed to point out that the same trends could equally be the result of a large variety of other factors . |
| 8 | In pointing out that the specific forms of marriage , family , property , and gender relations which existed in their time had not always existed , Marx and Engels were completely right , but in arguing positively that these things were totally absent in primitive society , they were , as we shall see , almost totally wrong . |
| 9 | The government issued a clarification on Aug. 29 pointing out that the new reservations applied only to jobs and not to educational places . |
| 10 | GEOGRAPHY lessons in Yugoslav schools used to start with the teacher pointing out that the first letters of the names of the states surrounding Yugoslavia added up to the word brigama , ‘ worries ’ . |
| 11 | Embarrassment at the lack of results was brushed off by pointing out that the social sciences were new , and therefore could not be expected to achieve the theoretical power of the natural sciences straight away . |
| 12 | I join the hon. Member for Weston-super-Mare ( Mr. Wiggin ) in pointing out that the Inland Waterways Association believes that it was not sufficiently consulted on the Bill . |
| 13 | Rather than simply criticizing quantitative analysis as a whole , she adapts slightly the standard method of measuring linguistic variables , pointing out that the three variants of ( r ) which can be distinguished ( [ ? ] , [ ? ] and [ ? ] are difficult to place on any rationally motivated social continuum . |
| 14 | The Court of Appeal rejected her arguments , pointing out that the statutory duties to ensure " good taste " and " due impartiality " are imprecise , and that the Broadcasting Act requires only that the IBA should approve a satisfactory system for monitoring standards and public reactions . |
| 15 | Commenting on the draft law , Russia'a new Deputy Minister of Culture , Tatyana Nikitina , points out that the new regulations will allow the export of works of art dating from the beginning of this century . |
| 16 | He points out that the working classes consisted mainly of peasants forced off the land through extreme poverty . |
| 17 | Hilary Wright , in an article on Violet Needham , points out that the various countries are ‘ clearly recognizable as pre-1914 Austria-Hungary , with contributions thrown in from France and the Netherlands ’ , and that it was a world in which Violet Needham had lived herself . |
| 18 | Attacking the crude Marxist theory which treats history as a law-governed and predictable process , Trevor Roper points out that the Marxist historians failed to predict the rise of fascism . |
| 19 | Auber points out that the minor inconsistencies can cause the user confusion and makes a plea for standardization . |
| 20 | Victoria De Grazia points out that the Italian fascists practised what might be described as ‘ selective totalitarianism ’ , which had little of the ‘ compulsive thoroughness ’ of Nazi Gleichschattung or synchronisation . |
| 21 | Some Near Eastern religions demand allegiance to one of many monsters , but on closer examination it turns out that the other creatures in the loch are only large fish . |
| 22 | They 'll explain it to anyone , anytime , but somehow it turns out that the other employees must go to them if they want anything . |
| 23 | It turns out that the recent redundancies were enabled by the installation of an AViiON-based Unix client/server administration system at the company 's headquarters . |
| 24 | Should one assume that the parties take notice in the original position of their own fallibility , and agree on constitutional arrangements that will be self-correcting if it turns out that the fundamental beliefs concerning human nature , on which their substantive principles of justice are based , turn out to be wrong , or not ? |
| 25 | Doing a bit of analytical geometry it turns out that the equipotential surfaces are circular cylinders as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 2.22 . |
| 26 | Sociologists have often pointed out that the various processes and outcomes of racial discrimination referred to above have produced a very distinctive location for black people in the British class structure . |
| 27 | Of course , it could be claimed that this was the same thing as : but it has been pointed out that the two versions are different in several ways . |
| 28 | Similar words not derived in this way do not have the syllabic — it has been pointed out that the two words ‘ coddling ’ ( derived from the verb ‘ coddle ’ ) and ‘ codling ’ ( meaning ‘ small cod ’ , derived by adding the diminutive suffix ‘ -ling ’ to ‘ cod ’ ) show a contrast between syllabic and non-syllabic : ‘ coddling ’ and ‘ codling ’ . |
| 29 | I have already pointed out that the financial details of the transaction were , as I understand them , nothing like those suggested by the hon. Lady or her hon. Friend the Member for Linlithgow ( Mr. Dalyell ) . |
| 30 | I have pointed out that the early structuralists treated the discursive elements in their analysis as ‘ natural ’ , as empirically given . |