Example sentences of "[pers pn] pointed out [that] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pointed out that the head of any such branch or formation would have less experience than myself or my successor in the medium in which we proposed to operate . |
| 2 | I pointed out that the ground was once part of Tip Farm and that on rainy days Bob Crudge still used it for artificial insemination . |
| 3 | ‘ I pointed out that the job would involve some travel . |
| 4 | I pointed out that the samples cost damn near as much as it would cost to paint the room , but a woman in paint picking mode is not an easy person to reason with . |
| 5 | She pointed out that the plaster would soon fall away without paint . |
| 6 | She pointed out that the states with the highest suicide rates were those in the Western US , such as Nevada Montana and New Mexico , where guns are more readily available than in the East . |
| 7 | She pointed out that the programmes of study , which have statutory force , now say that for all stages reading materials should ‘ include works written in English from other cultures ’ . |
| 8 | When he talked to his mother on the telephone last night about the Los Angeles riots , she pointed out that the same sort of thing — Koreans being attacked by cops , but the cops never being guilty — used to happen in Japan . |
| 9 | She pointed out that the piebald donkey in leather boots that had for years pulled the mowing machine which cut the acres of grass at Deer Forest , was at the end of a useful life , and , in any case , the whole performance took up two working days of the farm labourer who drove her in long reins — reins thin as thread and cracked with age : there was nothing economical about that . |
| 10 | In Chapter 1 , we defined unemployment as the number of people who are willing and able to work but are unable to find jobs and we pointed out that the unemployment percentage ( or rate of unemployment ) is the number of people unemployed expressed as a percentage of the labour force . |
| 11 | In Chapter 4 , we pointed out that the profile of the known sample group was skewed away from the ‘ typical ’ young unemployed heroin chaser identified by the prevalence study because of the very nature of being a ‘ known ’ user in treatment . |
| 12 | They pointed out that the conditioning phase of a latent inhibition experiment involves a treatment ( a change in the outcome of the target stimulus — the presentation of a US ) that , according to the theory , should produce a change in the value of α . |
| 13 | They pointed out that the school was important to the community and that it would be missed . |
| 14 | In a recent book they pointed out that the laws of physics dictate that the sun 's luminosity must have increased by 30 per cent during the past four million years . |
| 15 | They pointed out that the information provided by such an analysis of the components of shareholders ' funds did not seem to be useful and was difficult to interpret . |
| 16 | They pointed out that the incident could be marked by planting a tree on the course or giving a party . |
| 17 | Placing himself in an illustrious line of critics he pointed out that the Pharisees did not escape the sharp edge of Jesus 's tongue for their ‘ self righteousness ’ and ‘ judgemental ’ attitudes . |
| 18 | He pointed out that the strength of the regime could not depend on ‘ the laws [ ! ] of the Gestapo alone ’ , and that ‘ the broad mass [ of the population ] needs an idol ’ . |
| 19 | In addition , he pointed out that the price/performance ratio has changed by a factor of 6,000 in the past few years : ‘ If the car industry had had the same change that the computer industry has experienced since 1960 , a car that cost $10,000 in 1960 would now be sold for $1 , ’ he said . |
| 20 | When I asked Tony Geraghty what he had meant by ‘ not being counted ’ he pointed out that the S.A.S. 's own casualty figures did not add up . |
| 21 | He pointed out that the structural basis of human behaviour must be rooted in the gregarious nature of primates and the potentialities thereby offered for the socialization of individual experience . |
| 22 | He pointed out that the occurrence of conflict rather than co-operation and the fact that evolution ‘ rests on a struggle for existence ’ shows ‘ a want of that organic unity in which the good of one part is necessarily the good of the rest ’ . |
| 23 | Fellows seems to have acted in the sale of the Grand Union to the Grand Junction , for in a letter to the Grand Union he pointed out that the price would have to be realistic , bearing in mind that they were not dealing with a willing purchaser . |
| 24 | He pointed out that the prisoner did not deny that he had killed his wife , but it was a spur-of-the-moment loss of temper , and that his client had panicked and tried to conceal the body . |
| 25 | He pointed out that the federal government was directly responsible for determining the prices of only 11.5 per cent of industrial products and 14.5 per cent of retail prices , and concluded from that that the government played only a minor role in generating inflation . |
| 26 | He pointed out that the Select Committee had found no material difference between Gothic and Classic and with regard to the incongruity of the styles : |
| 27 | And he pointed out that the NII had given assurances to both the House of Commons select committee on energy and to successive energy ministers that there would be no unresolved safety issues by the time the public inquiry got under way . |
| 28 | He pointed out that the army version of the shooting prompted the questions : Why , if the army believed that it had caught three terrorists , did it let all of them escape ? |
| 29 | Also he pointed out that the portions of the castle most liable to be hit by missiles , especially the parapets and roofs , could be thickened in the masonry , and reinforced to good effect . |
| 30 | He pointed out that the SOFRECOM recommendations for a VHF-FM system would be the only way to achieve national coverage , but that this would be very expensive : a mere K537,000 had been allocated for capital expenditure , ‘ just a drop in a sea of water ’ . |