Example sentences of "[be] that i [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The problem is that I learnt this trick whilst tied up and submerged in a barrel of water . |
| 2 | ‘ The end result is that I 've large arrears on the centre 's mortgage , and now the building society is threatening repossession in the new year , unless we can clear the arrears . |
| 3 | Those of us who witnessed the touch-and-go progress of an ultimately triumphant War and Peace — recorded by Philips for release early next year — feared for the future of the rest , but as Gergiev puts it ‘ that which makes me incredibly proud is that I announced these things and they happened ’ — and , one might add , that inspiration was to hand for rather more performances than the fiercely self-critical Gergiev might admit . |
| 4 | Well mum , what it wants is that I got this tooth |
| 5 | ‘ I worked on various things , but the reason I 'm here is that I spent five years with SimFic working on artificial intelligence . ’ |
| 6 | The answer to the second is that I agree that Crime Concern , which enjoys all-party support in the House , does excellent work . |
| 7 | Erm , I think it 's worth saying that er us j just reiterating on what councillor has just said and that is that I think most tenants are very well aware of the right to buy and er er the motion being unnecessary but what happens with the motion is that it possibly attracts people who really in many ways can not actually afford to buy er to take advantage of their rights but who might be persuaded by very persuasive tactics to do so . |
| 8 | One of the reasons , Brian , is that I think German history is too important to be left to the German historians . |
| 9 | ‘ What no-one can deny is that I have Scottish blood in me , and I have always known it was there ’ , he said . |
| 10 | ‘ What 's interesting about it is that I have both worlds , because I play with Phil Collins ’ band as well as Genesis , and with Phil I do all the records too . |
| 11 | The only point is that I want that foreigner not to undersell my labour and I want him to be as competent to do the work as well as I would do it myself . |
| 12 | The disadvantage of being the Society 's spinster is that I spend all weekend smelling of sheep . |
| 13 | I said the thing is that I pay sixty pence for five well I said it costs me another sixty pence to come and change them ! |
| 14 | The only difference with you is that I used two grains of gunpowder and no oil . |
| 15 | The only snag was that I had bad after-effects from the anaesthetic . |
| 16 | I mentioned this to no one for two practical reasons : one was that I loathed swimming , and if I pretended that I was still menstruating , signing the little red book every four weeks , I should be able to evade an unpleasant experience for at least one week out of four ; the other was that I feared further reprisals might be taken against me . |
| 17 | The second side-effect — and this is n't necessarily a criticism — was that I found this guitar absolutely unbearable to play unless it was as near perfectly in tune as possible . |
| 18 | I think her principal objection to me was that I exercised some influence over him , which was at odds with her own belief that all such influence should be exercised through her . |