Example sentences of "[pron] is [adv] [verb] [adv prt] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Economic issues are real enough and it is often pointed out that politics is about priorities . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is often pointed out that chemists have failed in their attempts to duplicate the spontaneous origin of life in the laboratory . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ( 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 . ) |