Example sentences of "[vb -s] out that the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In defence of the tests employed by the APU , Foxam , in a letter to the Times Educational Supplement ( 10 October 1980 ) , points out that the teachers whose pupils took the tests thought that the language in the written tests was appropriate .
2 Chomsky points out that the principles of operant conditioning were originally derived from experimental studies of animals , in which the ex-perimenter could achieve a very high degree of control over variables which were presumed to influence behaviour .
3 Mr Jencks , careful as ever , points out that the figures can mislead .
4 However , he points out that the effects of the testosterone rises appear to affect men more than women — in a study in the United States it was found that teenage boys felt sexier when their testosterone levels were high , whereas their female counterparts were more affected by peer group activity ( ie what their friends were doing ) .
5 A widow with two children points out that the Iraqis doubled her welfare cheque ; now it has stopped altogether .
6 He points out that the courts have departed from the old literal approach of statutory construction and now adopt a purposive approach , seeking to discover the Parliamentary intention lying behind the words used and construing the legislation so as to give effect to , rather than thwart , the intentions of Parliament .
7 Under nurse training the report points out that the changes in the development of primary and community health services will have a major impact on training , which regions will need to take into account .
8 Des Smith ( ‘ Forgotten innocents ’ , 20 March ) rightly points out that the conditions of the Guatemalan refugees have been largely ignored by the world 's media .
9 The RSC points out that the proposals to create a single environment agency are rather unfortunately timed , because both HMIP and NRA are relatively new .
10 OLD sober sides Robert Goodwill , the Tory in Redcar , points out that the gentlemen of the Press will be able to cover his result after all ( Yesterday 's Diary ) .
11 Glynn ( 1985 , p. 13 ) points out that the results of such investigations are often not followed up .
12 He points out that the droppings which the plant will be using would normally be used as manure for spreading on fields .
13 McCormick correctly points out that the authors are partisan , and acknowledges that the book contains some truth about the Reagan Administration 's assault on the environment .
14 The council is overbudget and points out that the workshops are facing difficult trading conditions during the recession .
15 He points out that the pencils are notoriously difficult to get , and says the simple fact is that the judges have not seen sufficient innovation .
16 Andrew Roberts points out that the yachts embody the relationship the design group feels exists between safety and comfort .
17 Since Normanton ( 1971 ) wrote this there have been important moves to improve the information provided by local authorities , though Tomkins ( 1977 ) points out that the standards of reports vary , some being elaborate while others are simply extracts from the accounts .
18 This can be used to calculate the required information ; it turns out that the improvements that can be achieved by access frequency loading are to reduce accesses to synonyms from 34.06 per cent to 28.4 per cent for single — record buckets , and from 8.59 per cent to 4.90 per cent for ten-record buckets .
19 In quantum mechanics it turns out that the operators x and p do not commute , which is why there can not be a state in which they both take definite values .
20 And on top of that , it turns out that the Americans really dig The Kitchens .
21 In this case , if it turns out that the goods do not exist at the time of the contract , the seller will be liable in damages to the buyer for breach of his contractual undertaking .
22 It turns out that the numbers put to the four PowerPC implementations the 601 , 603 , 604 and 620 , detailed last week ( UX No 390 ) , refer to chipsets and not systems as was implied .
23 The unfortunate Mr Henman concluded cautiously , ‘ If , in the final analysis , it turns out that the qualifications were deficient … ’ then it would be a matter of ‘ hindsight ’ .
24 It turns out that the worms move at a rate which is unaffected by the intensity of illumination , but they change direction , to left or right , at a rate which does vary with light intensity .
25 But if it turns out that the units make an independent contribution , then there is a further level-of-analysis problem .
26 The results of these studies are too numerous to detail here , but it turns out that the investigators concerned all reached fairly consistent conclusions about the personality traits that typified their subjects .
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