Example sentences of "pointed [adv] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | She also pointed out that a considerable sum is raised for charity by the festival . |
| 2 | It pointed out that a prolonged period of profits growth at ISC had ended because of insistence by the auditors that ISC adopt more conservative accounting policies on long term contracts . |
| 3 | He pointed out that a cubic metre of air over the affected forests had been found to contain 400 mainly unknown but man-made organic compounds . |
| 4 | He pointed out that a young officer 's life had been tragically taken while doing his duty , protecting others . |
| 5 | Protagonists of seventeenth-century fen drainage pointed out that a fat ox was better than a well-grown eel , and a tame sheep more use than a wild duck . |
| 6 | Hector Charlesworth broadcast a Dominion Day speech , in both English and French , in which he pointed out that a famous French writer had said that ‘ A man with two languages is a man with two souls ’ and he felt that if LaRochfoucauld could make such a statement it might well be embraced by all true Canadians . |
| 7 | Council and committee chairman Don Mayes pointed out that a number of those buried at Blackmoor were from their parish . |
| 8 | I pointed out that a certain amount of intimacy was inevitable when you work so closely with someone . |
| 9 | Commenting on the many questions asked he pointed out that a literal understanding of what was said in the O.T . |
| 10 | He pointed out that a design could be drawn using one option and knitted using another . |
| 11 | It pointed out that a prisoner might die , before the information had been extracted , if the torture was too severe : ‘ One must give them pain to make them respond quickly , to make them afraid , not to kill them , but to bring them close to death . ’ |
| 12 | Although Adam pointed out that a profit was projected for the whole group , and that the group expansion had been phenomenal , Miranda felt a wistful longing for the old , less comfortable days — not so very long ago — when KITS had been her brilliant baby |
| 13 | In our discussion on accountability in public sector organisations in Chapter 2 we pointed out that a principal focus of processes of accountability was finance . |
| 14 | He pointed out that a number of companies , with more money behind them than his own , had recently expressed interest in expanding — notably Volume One , Zachary Kwintner 's Discount Book Company , Hammicks and Ottakars — and that the Book Bargains Ltd shops were all in ‘ super locations ’ . |
| 15 | On this assumption , a Cambridge don , John Michell , wrote a paper in 1783 in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London in which he pointed out that a star that was sufficiently massive and compact would have such a strong gravitational field that light could not escape : any light emitted from the surface of the star would be dragged back by the star 's gravitational attraction before it could get very far . |
| 16 | My hon. Friend the Member for Stroud pointed out that a regulator is much better than an ombudsman . |
| 17 | It was only then that the aggrieved captain pointed out that a drop goal is disallowed after a free-kick under modern laws and McNally had to blow again to signify a change of verdict . |
| 18 | The Guardian of Feb 15 pointed out that a united [ CIS ] military " can hardly be sustained " and that Ukraine 's main fear was of united armed forces being effectively under Russian control . |
| 19 | ‘ I think it was last March when you first pointed out that a madness in railway dealings was growing . ’ |
| 20 | It was the Saudi oil minister , Shaikh Ahmad Zaki Yamani , who pointed out that a cut-off of Gulf oil would raise prices and ‘ seriously affect the Western economic recovery , . |
| 21 | Nevertheless the Belgian scholar van der Vyver pointed out that a panegyric addressed by Ennodius of Pavia to Theodoric the Great in 508 refers to a recent influx of Alamans into Ostrogothic territory , and he suggested that this should be linked to Clovis 's victory , which he placed in 506 . |
| 22 | The CML pointed out that a sealed form 53 was a receipt , and that lenders would be reluctant to issue it before receiving the monies in question . |
| 23 | It pointed out that a recent packaging industry report on the packaging of liquids for human consumption had revealed a marked increase in the amount of energy and waste involved in the period 1986-90 . |
| 24 | He pointed out that a government-funded voluntary organisation , the Inverclyde Home Safety Group , was providing smoke alarms in some of the district 's more deprived areas . |