Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [am/are] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is perhaps worth recording here , particularly for the benefit of Alan , to whom I am copying this letter , that the idea , while being born out of a most pleasant lunch with Terri Peralla , stands up well in my view to critical evaluation . |
| 2 | I find myself here and now — at my hotel window , the road below crowded with traffic , the fish market gone until tomorrow , the winter sun lighting the exercise book in which I 'm writing these events of nearly three years past — wanting to put down my pen , lean back and wonder at my arrogance , such stubborn obtuseness . |
| 3 | If he does become prime minister ( with the aforementioned majority ) , I will eat one copy of the edition of the New Statesman in which you are reading this article . ’ |
| 4 | The experience of coming from the north-east of England is an important influence on my views on the issue with which we are dealing this morning . |
| 5 | In the field of intellectual work Rosenbrock has questioned the underlying assumptions of the manner in which we are developing computer-aided design systems . |
| 6 | The white paper that was published some months ago indicates I think , very clearly , the kind of commitments that we have and the way in which we are meeting those commitments . |
| 7 | This is not a dispute in which we are seeking more pay for solicitors . |
| 8 | I am conscious of the late payment problem , which is something to which we are devoting great attention . |
| 9 | We made special provision for the homelessness problem last year , and my hon. Friend the Minister with responsibility for housing will be making a further announcement in the next day or two about the homeless figures for which we are making additional provision in the current year . |
| 10 | People did n't use to do that twenty thirty forty years ago so erm child sex abuse is very much on the agenda , both of professionals and also on the agenda of people suffering from sort of distress for which they are receiving professional help because um that 's one of the things which um I think more nowadays than before you find people encouraged to look for . |
| 11 | Politicians of the majority party without ministerial office find themselves frustratingly shut out from a decision making process into which they are given few insights . |
| 12 | MANY people will applaud Liverpool City Council for the zeal with which they are pursuing those residents who have deliberately refused to pay their poll tax . |
| 13 | Unless anyone should mistake my purpose , I say clearly that , provided that local authorities , at the point of change in April 1993 , have the power to spend that which they are spending this year , plus inflation , not one meal on wheels , not one old people 's home , not one teacher — in fact not one public provision — need be cut . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , Cavell tells me you 're receiving various invitations . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Are you telling me you 're having second thoughts ? |
| 16 | Dr. Saxby tells me you 're having some discomfort , and a smaller dosage will help . |
| 17 | The armchair traveller for whom you are shooting these pictures does not want to visualize paradise under cloud . |
| 18 | So she knows she may hear from you I am copying this letter to . |
| 19 | I 've known loads of people who who are working full time , and they come home Friday and the go out Friday night , stand up at the bar , and drink twenty pints or whatever , ten pints . |
| 20 | Oh you ca n't you , you , that 's what we we 're saying this morning |
| 21 | I 'm gon na tell her I 'm having that tape recorder , I says you 're not , she 's coming back for it on Friday . |
| 22 | Er because they know that on average unless things change a lot , that they they 're following this curve this growth this growth curve . |
| 23 | Or between wife and husband , we tend to think only of transfer from husbands to wife , but er we do meet quite er a w er ladies who 've got quite high earnings and they themselves are paying forty percent in which case they should make sure that any investment income of theirs is transferred to the husband , so as to get the , to either use up allowances that are not being used at all because of absence of the income , or to benefit from these different rates of tax . |
| 24 | Q So why is it we are seeing such chaos now ? |
| 25 | Essentially , I am suggesting that what I am calling private metaphors were developed by managers as a means of coping with the dissonance between what is commonly accepted as being management theory and what they thought for themselves it ought to be in actuality . |
| 26 | ‘ From what I 'm told old Sung is a docile man . |
| 27 | His tone is friendly but the questions are direct : where I 've been , who I 've talked to , what I 'm doing that day . |
| 28 | Yeah , well I think I 'm down this weekend cos I do n't know what I 'm doing this weekend . |
| 29 | This this is what I 'm saying last time that if you 'll work through it , understand it , Oh yeah I can do that , |
| 30 | The existence of such conflicts had been acknowledged and deplored as early as the 1580s by George Gifford 's non-Puritan countryman , who had commented : ‘ I know towns myself which are divided one part against another since they had a preacher , which was not so before … whereas before they loved each other , now there is dissension sown among them . ’ |