Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [verb] [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am assuming that this identity business is a foible of John 's , of Tod 's , of Hamilton 's , and not universal . |
| 2 | In each case , if I am to claim that this revelation or experience is of ‘ God ’ , and is not simply an expression of some form of mental delusion which should be referred to a psychoanalyst , then I am forced to debate the interpretation that I am giving . |
| 3 | Furthermore I am suggesting that each team should be no larger than 16 staff . |
| 4 | I am suggesting that this relationship is also to be found in games , in the arts and in life . |
| 5 | John MacGregor , Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food I am advised that hard cheese processes suppress and kill off pathogens . |
| 6 | In both subjects I am told that more time and more help is needed to spread the ideas , to run courses , to try out new approaches in different situations , to evaluate the success of the last step before embarking on the next , but the curriculum workers I met were disturbed that they were unable to provide what they knew teachers needed . |
| 7 | So what I 'm hoping that this Council will do is send a message up to White Hall that this is an abuse of executive power to stifle the challenges of t to the authority . |
| 8 | So I 'm hoping that this system that I give you will allow you to do that , anybody been a best man at a wedding ? |
| 9 | I have n't read anything official from Elland Road for the past few months , so I 'm presuming that this season coming we wo n't need premier cards to go to away games . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm seeing that white bothy down there , ’ the driver informed me , pointing out a delightful cabin with a golden thatched roof . |
| 11 | It is in the shared interest of of the parties I 'm describing that this county should be able to attract and accommodate er inward investment of strategic significance to help the people of this county find the due employment that they need . |
| 12 | The beans have now reached the top of their 6ft canes and I 'm praying that any autumn gales will be delayed until the beans are all safely harvested . |
| 13 | Women made up only a minor proportion of the prison population in Geurrero and I was assured that this situation was reflected throughout Mexico . |
| 14 | Nearly ten years ago , in CD 's infancy , I was writing that most CD players sound like poor quality amplifiers , not least because they contain poor quality amplifier circuits , and little seems to have changed in the interim . |
| 15 | When I wrote a popular book recently , I was advised that each equation I included would halve the sales . |
| 16 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 17 | I was told that each train which passed us happened to be the one that was taking Tam Mahaddie away to kill the Kaiser and win the war . |
| 18 | Does the Secretary of State recall that in answer to an earlier question of mine to his colleague at the Department of Employment , I was told that 25,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost in the past 12 months in Yorkshire and Humberside ? |
| 19 | I did not receive a thank you from the owner of these cards nor from the Midland Bank , yet I was told that common practice in Britain is to reward the finder . |
| 20 | I was informed that British Steel would be making a decision on the day that it made the decision — I was informed in confidence some days before that it would be making a decision on that day . |
| 21 | There is ‘ unity of command ’ which is to say that each member of the organisation only has one direct supervisor . |
| 22 | Ackroyd pastiches Dickens in form rather than style — which is to say that this book is very long , Dickensianly long ( the main text signs off at page 1084 , where it gives way to a fat coda of source notes , bibliography and index ) . |
| 23 | However , the Lord Chancellor wishes the Legal Aid Board to keep the arrangements governing eligibility and contributions for legal aid under review so as to fulfil the Board 's overall aim , which is to ensure that legal advice , assistance and representation is made available to those who need it . |
| 24 | ‘ Drivers want to be able to put the same smart card in a holder ( or a different card in the same holder ) whether driving in the Netherlands or on a French autoroute , ’ says Ian Catling , a member of an EC group which is ensuring that electronic Babel is avoided on the roads . |
| 25 | The European programme is , like the US Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile ( GOSIP ) effort , mandatory , and its is expected that most government buyers will follow the guidelines because they will have to give and explain reasons for non-standard purchases . |
| 26 | Well , see when you 're drinking that all day long |
| 27 | I take the point that you 're suggesting that another group may have re- considered it 's position . |
| 28 | After a pause , she said , ‘ And you were hoping that one day she 'd give up seeing men altogether and have a steady relationship with you ? ’ |
| 29 | However , who 's to say that this figure would n't be as open to exaggeration as amp output always used to be ? |
| 30 | In the language of contemporary sociology , she is saying that juvenile delinquency is a subculture … |