Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [verb] [adv prt] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm simply pointing out that there were better ways to have made this trip today . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm really pissed off that I feel a bit silly about Kathy , er no not Kathy , Jenny . |
| 3 | Er I 'm only basing on that there are one or two empty shops |
| 4 | I was completely pissed off that I was 16 and I had n't done it yet . |
| 5 | ‘ When we split up I was really pissed off that we had n't achieved a lot of things we could have done , and that mood was coming through in the last records because it was depressing . |
| 6 | I was merely pointing out that she is not a waif ; she must belong to someone . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I was merely pointing out that this is a very specialized machine and requires skilful control . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ All right , but I was merely pointing out that I would hardly liken you to an animal or bird from New Zealand when I 'm Australian . ’ |
| 9 | This took the form of teasing , mostly , and one day I was so fed up that I just walked out of school . |
| 10 | The interviewer will expect you to be slightly nervous , indeed may be rather alienated if you are so laid back that you appear almost indifferent . |
| 11 | She 's so grown up that she shouted herself hoarse through a bloody pantomime not two hours ago . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Moreover , it is frequently pointed out that the early Christian definitions of faith did not mean by the Greek and Latin words that we commonly translate as ‘ person ’ exactly what we would mean by ‘ person ’ today . |
| 14 | It is frequently pointed out that , compared with the previous dismal history of negotiations for disarmament , the past twenty-five years have seen an exceptional success in the conclusion of nuclear arms limitation agreements . |
| 15 | It is also pointed out that the danger of " hurrying " and teaching " more " is that time for gathering information and reflecting on practice and the implicit and explicit theories that guide it can evaporate easily in the busyness of increasing demands … |
| 16 | At the least it is usually laid down that the amendment of the Constitution can take place only through a special process different from that by which the ordinary law is altered … |
| 17 | It is seldom pointed out that the use of verbal insults is almost always an integral part of incidents in which women are physically and sexually assaulted . |
| 18 | It is often pointed out that the long-running set of victimization data in Britain , the General Household Survey 's regular measurement of the extent of burglary victimization since 1972 , indicates that most of the increase in recorded burglary is a reporting phenomenon . |
| 19 | Economic issues are real enough and it is often pointed out that politics is about priorities . |
| 20 | It is often pointed out that higher education was centrally seen in this way in the nineteenth century , but that very different models were on offer . |
| 21 | Thus , it is often pointed out that the statistics of murder include many domestic killings , the implication being that the figures are not therefore quite as grave as they seem . |
| 22 | It is often pointed out that chemists have failed in their attempts to duplicate the spontaneous origin of life in the laboratory . |
| 23 | It is often pointed out that governments manipulate the economy to engineer booms in periods immediately preceding elections , to the detriment of the economy , often by manipulating the money supply . |
| 24 | ( This is not meant to be a criticism , for I doubt whether we can work effectively without such things ; it is merely to point out that modernity enters the church far more easily than the church enters modernity . ) |
| 25 | I think we r we we accepted in in the County Surveyors report to members , er it was clearly pointed out that the traffic benefits of the inner routes are greater than the outer route . |
| 26 | He said when Mr McKay 's sick note was sent in it was not picked up that it had anything to do with the accident . |
| 27 | Nonetheless , it was also pointed out that screening could be effective in uncovering treatable conditions which sufferers were otherwise likely to put up with as simply the inevitable consequence of old age . |
| 28 | It was also pointed out that , for the colinear case , it was convenient to rescale the approaching waves such that at the point of collision . |
| 29 | It was also pointed out that all Dutch ovens must have adequate floatation . |
| 30 | It was also pointed out that there were cuts in the community care , in particular the home help budget , with home helps being restricted in the chores that they are allowed to carry out by law . |