Example sentences of "it [was/were] point [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It was pointed out to the young man that Philip was the chairman of CUM . |
| 2 | It was pointed out to the Special Branch man behind the screen that the police team investigating the murders had no knowledge of his information and he was asked why he had not passed it to them . |
| 3 | When it was pointed out to the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East ( Mr. Smith ) that his taxes would rise , the right hon. and learned Gentleman seemed surprised : what the right hon. and learned Gentleman said , in effect , was that taxes under Labour would ’ only ’ rise higher than those in any other G7 country — lower , perhaps , than taxes in Albania , but higher than those of all our competitors . |
| 4 | The Army spokesman added : ‘ It was pointed out to the convoy that it would be madness to try to drive through that particular part of the road , but they pushed on . ’ |
| 5 | It was pointed out during the workshop that women have always been flexible in terms of employment , but because they have to be rather than because they want to be . |
| 6 | While this is true as regards the specific wording of the offence of genocide , it was pointed out in the parliamentary debate relating to the Genocide Bill that almost all the offences included in the Convention were in fact already offences under English law . |
| 7 | As it was pointed out in the previous chapter , the reconstruction and expansion of the social services during the last war were dominated by one central principle : universality . |
| 8 | Kuwait and the UAE in particular were reported to have exceeded their quotas during 1989 , and it was pointed out in the press that apart from these two countries , together with Iran , Iraq and Saudi Arabia , the other eight OPEC members were currently producing at or around their ceiling capacity , so that any further additions to output would come from those five major Gulf producers . |