Example sentences of "as i pointed [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 The crowd was full of pickpockets , as I pointed out to him , and I could have easily said , well , I am sorry Oscar , but you know it is one of the risks here .
2 It was now called Growth and to get a decision on anything , you had to have a committee meeting , and as I pointed out , if it was going to continue this way , David would lose interest totally .
3 Likewise as I pointed out in the last chapter , in dramatic playing a boy may be required to adopt the function of an Abbot of Durham Cathedral , and in so far as he continues to see himself in that role he will continue to signal to others that that is what he is doing .
4 As I pointed out above , as the newcomers settled into established communities here and there and one or two at a time , many social relations between incomers and Shetlanders were created from the simple neighbourly needs for advice and help with house repairs and so on .
5 As I pointed out earlier , regression itself does not cure any particular problem .
6 Strategic decisions urgently need to be taken since , as I pointed out in the very first of my articles for NSS in January 1991 , the British economy is now in grave peril .
7 Now clearly a teaching approach which goes against the grain of natural disposition will create needless difficulties for the learner , as I pointed out earlier in reference to translation and the focusing on form , but it does not follow that pedagogy must therefore simply accommodate that disposition .
8 There are plenty of historical precedents for this , as I pointed out in Chapter 2 .
9 Furthermore , as participants in the learning/teaching operation , pupils have a role in the evaluation process , as I pointed out earlier .
10 Grammar , as I pointed out in the preceding chapter , can only go so far .
11 As I pointed out last month , ACT surrendered from a holding company is not available for carry-back in the recipient subsidiary .
12 As I pointed out in the last chapter , working-class attachment to institutional religion never picked up from the moment that peasants moved off the land and became urbanised .
13 The lesson which can be learnt from South Africa regarding professionalism then seems to be that , as I pointed out last month , there is a contradiction in allowing a mercenary spirit to dominate an amateur game .
14 As I pointed out in the original review , this causes a few problems like the inability to switch players .
15 As I pointed out there , it seems to be impossible to give a full description of a linguistic variety ( whether it is ‘ standard ’ English , or a dialect , or a style or register ) without making decisions about what the ‘ norms ’ of the variety are , that is , without making decisions about what the speakers agree on as structures that are appropriate for that variety .
16 As I pointed out at the beginning of this judgment , the patient 's right of choice exists whether the reasons for making that choice are rational , irrational , unknown or even non-existent .
17 There are many examples of video materials produced for language learning use which nevertheless contain authentic features such as spontaneous , unscripted speech , whereas , as I pointed out in describing the content of documentaries , most commentary is carefully scripted and not therefore spontaneous .
18 As I pointed out in Chapter 4 , there is a very important way in which science proceeds by metaphor , and metaphors can illumine — or they can mislead .
19 As I pointed out earlier , even those scientists who are most eager to assure us that the difference between man and other animals is only a matter of degree always conduct their experiments in a way which implies that the observer is quite different in kind from what he observes .
20 As I pointed out at the beginning of this chapter , education is on the threshold of a new era , which will have massive repercussions upon the issues of assessment and examination , with some of the proposed developments being viewed with considerably more apprehension than the GCSE was a couple of years ago .
21 But , in fact , as I pointed out the minute you told me what the letters said , there was n't one line there to connect them with Chambers .
22 As I pointed out above , the essence of the ego 's operations was its ability to redeploy and redirect the malleable drives of the id .
23 Yet , as I pointed out above , it is the origin and causes of these circumstances which really need to be explained — not to mention other , non-individualistic phenomena like religion and cultural tradition which this approach , with its narrow focus on childhood conditioning , usually quite ignores .
24 One aspect of this which , as I pointed out , is in fact first seen in late Palaeolithic delayed-return hunter-gatherer cultures , is the appearance of the cult of the all-providing and divinely-fecund mother-goddess — the phantasied mother-as-breast .
25 Such delusions are , as I pointed out earlier , typical of paranoia and are projections .
26 The leader creates the parental role , the followers play the role of the children , and er , as I pointed out in the , in the lecture when I talked about that , often this is erm , explicitly indicated by symbolic terms , in groups , such as papa , erm , erm , whi which gives you the word pope .
27 As I pointed out earlier , the phonemic description of This nudist is ambiguous ( at least temporarily ) between This nudist … ,
28 Proper audit er is the effective way er to detect fraud and that needs to be at the at the er the re requirement er er that we impose er on and I , as I pointed out er at the moment the auditors themselves are not being effectively er regulated .
29 A disgraceful decision , as I pointed out at the time . ’
30 You 're very fortunate , as I pointed out to a group yesterday .
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