Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [to-vb] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This is all I shall have to remember him by — you are cruel to treat it with such levity . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I know , ’ said Henry , ‘ and I am sorry to bother you at this time of night but my client has given me to understand that this is when you would be available . |
| 3 | I am sorry to worry you over this but the result of the present system is that John Merer and I are barely on speaking terms . |
| 4 | There is no harm in adding , say , 5% to that price as long as you are prepared to reduce it by that amount in negotiation . |
| 5 | Children who know the meaning of more or of both more and less are careful to distinguish them from each other and from nonsense words introduced in the same setting . |
| 6 | It is important to remember that the linguistic utterances of others are just as much externally observed behaviour as walking down stairs or pressing a button in a psychophysics laboratory although , because of the high information content of linguistic behaviour , we are prone to endow it with some mystical quality which opens a special window on to the mind of the person generating it . |
| 7 | This therefore tends to essentialize ‘ the prejudiced individual ’ — the prejudiced teacher or student — who becomes the target for pedagogies that are supposed to cure them of this pathology . |
| 8 | Dentists have traditionally been paid for filling holes ; people are unwilling to pay them for much else . |
| 9 | But Ministers are unlikely to give it to either group as Mr Major does not want the lottery to be seen as gambling . |
| 10 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 11 | As for NT , Microsoft is back describing it as primarily a server operating system , and acknowledging that vendors are unlikely to bundle it with more than about 10% of the desktop machines they ship . |
| 12 | ‘ I am concerned to find him like this , ’ he said , sliding away from the immovable barrier . |
| 13 | I regret that I am unable to assist you with this aspect at this time . |
| 14 | I am happy to see them in this workmanlike state . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry to put you to any inconvenience , but it ca n't be helped . |
| 16 | I 'm sorry to bother you at this time of night . |
| 17 | I 'm pleased to see it on this year 's Congress Agenda . |
| 18 | I am inclined to leave it at that . |