Example sentences of "it pointed out " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Those who did read from end to end discovered that , far from giving its blessing to ever-expanding production and consumption , it pointed out its futility . |
| 3 | It pointed out , however , that an annotation of the changed sex on the register would not safeguard privacy because it would reveal Rees 's change of sexual identity . |
| 4 | Instead , it pointed out the main areas for reform and the re-orientation of policies required . |
| 5 | It pointed out that , where parties seek to negotiate during the course of disciplinary proceedings and an agreed formula is worked out , it would be ‘ most unfortunate ’ if the mere fact that agreement was reached while the proceedings continued enabled the employee to say later that there was a dismissal . |
| 6 | It pointed out that he had , after considerable difficulty , recently obtained a new lease for Montagu House and had commissioned Burn to rebuild it . |
| 7 | It pointed out that the Committee had found that Gothic and Classic were equally suitable as the style to be adopted , but Coe and Hofland and Banks and Barry had mistakenly chosen . |
| 8 | Unfortunately it was not a very good lute , as the assistant in the music shop to which he tried to sell it pointed out at — unnecessarily — great length . |
| 9 | It pointed out that it is bound by a constitution which limits its work to prisoners of conscience and the abolition of torture and the death penalty . |
| 10 | In a large advertisement in the local press it pointed out |
| 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 the DES said it was considering this , it pointed out that there was a practical difficulty in the difference in salary scales . |
| 13 | It pointed out that : |
| 14 | Out went the Lovebooks set up by Miles and John Hopkins ; its new holding company was KNULLAR , which could be , the paper suggested in August , the ‘ Karmic Neo-Universal League for Liberty and Reality ’ ; but to a Swede , It pointed out ‘ it could mean something entirely different ’ — ‘ fuck ’ to be precise . |
| 15 | But it pointed out that the delays would have only a marginal impact on the total UK production profile and would help to sustain the mid-1990s production plateau beyond the turn of the century . |
| 16 | It pointed out : ’ no overt decision had been made to phase out geriatric wards ; the practice grew as health authorities saw the opportunity to transfer costs to the budget of another Government Department by transferring one aspect of care to the voluntary and private sector . |
| 17 | The IIF cautiously welcomed the debt-reduction agreements struck with Mexico and the Philippines [ see p. 37243 ; p. 37580 for their respective finalization ] , but it pointed out that the two countries had continued to service their obligations during negotiation of the deals , in contrast with other middle-income debtor nations seeking relief under the plan . |
| 18 | In 1990 Hawke asked the newly created Resources Assessment Commission to adjudicate on the issue ; the report , filed in 1991 , recommended that mining should not be prohibited on environmental grounds , but it pointed out that the Hill was sacred to an Aboriginal group , the Jawoyn people . |
| 19 | The MRF , it pointed out , had supported a vote in the National Assembly on Dec. 29 approving the release from detention of former Prime Minister and BSP member Andrei Lukanov . |
| 20 | It pointed out that not all the monitoring carried out by an LEA required the application of professional educational judgement . |
| 21 | The Council was aware of the ‘ high degree of priority and urgency ’ to be attached to this work , but in making the commitment it pointed out also that leaving freedom to colleges to devise and conduct their courses meant that ‘ the consequent interaction between College and Council can stretch over a fair amount of time ’ . |
| 22 | As it pointed out , we could double our expenditure on dentists but if people were still not prepared to brush their teeth ( and governments still refuse to fluoridate drinking water ) then the same number of teeth would probably have to be extracted : an appalling 8 million that year , with almost 30% of the people in the country having no teeth of their own . |
| 23 | It pointed out that , in the pressure areas , it had had only modest success in achieving a steady flow of land on to the market . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It pointed out that he had a good defence to the action , namely that he was not responsible for publication . |
| 26 | It pointed out that drilling levels were already falling and predicted this would mean a further considerable reduction . |