Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps more significantly I was to find out that many Heads and teachers alike believed in the importance of creative experience for children , and so the way schools had developed was genuine , well founded and not a half-baked ill-digested educational " gimmick " . |
| 2 | My right hon. Friend the Secretary of State and my hon. Friend the Under-Secretary have talked with housing authorities throughout the country in the past few weeks and we have been interested to find out that many local authorities have land banks which they are not prepared to make available to housing associations . |
| 3 | It took two days to find out that neither man was going to admit to anything . |
| 4 | You do n't really want Fabbiano to find out that one of his little girls cost him a whoppin' big order . ’ |
| 5 | If they are fortunate to have enough money , where are they to find out that that helpline exists and obtain the numbers ? |
| 6 | It is no surprise , then , to find out that half of Lima 's population of six million live in informally constructed homes , most of them built on land that had been previously illegally invaded . |
| 7 | It did n't take a great mind to work out that this was some security conscious area . |
| 8 | I want to point out that philosophical , literary and artistic works prove to have particular value for sociology because they approximate the maximum potential consciousness of those privileged social groups whose mentality , thought , and behaviour are oriented toward an overall world view . |
| 9 | Mr Ferris asks us to point out that one of the requirements of the UK Air Navigation Order is that the current registered owner of an aircraft must keep the Authority informed of any changes to their address or ownership details in order that the UK Register of Civil Aircraft can be kept up to date . |
| 10 | Another counter to this argument might be to point out that one of the defining characteristics of higher education is that students are brought to the ‘ frontiers of knowledge ’ in a particular field . |
| 11 | Among all the fuss about income tax , I should like to point out that one of the best things the Conservatives have done is to allow a wife 's earnings to be taxed separately from her husband . |
| 12 | I 'd like to point out that all erm bonuses are paid at proof stage . |
| 13 | It is not enough only to point out that female choice might favour a bizarre male trait ; if the trait is deleterious , one must also explain why the female preference is not then selected against , for the females will produce sons with the bizarre trait . |
| 14 | Erm now it , it 's interesting to point out that female choice and of course one of the best examples of that is birds where the female chooses not , you saw it on the film , but this is just a reminder . |
| 15 | With regard to the transfer of title in stolen art work , I would like to point out that Swiss law can not , in comparison with the majority of European legal systems , be considered especially to favour illegal transactions . |
| 16 | Law was equally keen to point out that little was being risked , and to set at rest the fears of his supporters : |
| 17 | As this meeting is in camera it is allowable at this stage to point out that certain elements in this family , being of — er — immigrant origin , ah , have a totally different conception of the role of a daughter in a family and of parental rights , and while doing all they could to respect the traditions of minority ethnic groups , and in particular the rather dominant role of the father in such societies , in the last resort it was with the protection of a minor that the Council was concerned according to the law of this country . |
| 18 | Sir : As a Tuscan expatriate in Britain , I feel duty bound to point out that five out of the eight Italians included in the '50 mastersingers of Europe' were from Tuscany : Dante , Michelangelo , Leonardo , Machiavelli and Galileo . |
| 19 | Salerooms are at pains to point out that such paintings are now fetching as high or higher prices than ever . |
| 20 | But of course it is not enough to point out that such claims can be made implicitly . |
| 21 | I wish to point out that such a definition applies to none of the people present in this forest today . |
| 22 | That is not to say that someone who is using word processing or a similar application will not be able to make the best of a desktop publishing package but rather to point out that new skills will need to be learned , new concepts understood . |
| 23 | We would like to point out that many people at the centre told us that the attitudes we had encountered were less prevalent now than they had been in the past , and would continue to diminish . |
| 24 | In the years 1815–27 , when he was hated by the young Romantic poets for his apostasy , it is only fair to point out that many quite reasonable people were at panic stations because of incipient popular unrest . |
| 25 | However , while cultural and religious conflict was far from uncommon , it is important to point out that many village communities of England managed to avoid the damaging conflicts which existed at Terling and elsewhere . |
| 26 | But they hasten to point out that many spend them taking their charges to exotic educational destinations . |
| 27 | Though not wishing to detract from Campling 's writing , I wish to point out that many of the reactions , feelings , and transferences that she mentions also apply to those who were not sexually abused but ‘ only ’ emotionally abused . |
| 28 | It is fair to point out that many of the apparently new areas in which Community jurisdiction is established had already been anticipated by , or incorporated in , previous EEC legislation . |
| 29 | I realize that this was done without any intention of hurting anyone , but maybe it would be good to point out that this term can and does offend . |
| 30 | A LETTER reproves me for singling out rotten spelling in other places , notably The Guardian , and goes on to point out that this magazine is not immune . |