Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] be that the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course not , all I mean is that the distance between the charges is very small with respect to some other distance of interest . |
| 2 | The most important thing I learnt was that the lawyer 's job in local government is to help get things done rather than provide elegant reasons for doing nothing . |
| 3 | The first thing I noticed was that the whole of the top half of the house was swathed in what looked like green plastic bandages . |
| 4 | The only other downside I noticed was that the car tended to be a little ponderous in lower gears around town . |
| 5 | The first thing I noticed was that the Transit had gone and Armstrong was back in his place of honour outside No. 9 . |
| 6 | All I remember is that the King and de Craon were talking excitedly together and that de Craon seemed pleased . |
| 7 | That I understand is that the lake at Skelton Hall is too deep to be found suitable by the Great Crested . |
| 8 | The point being made , I think is that the indie bands and football thugs have killed it . |
| 9 | because he mentioned and I said is that the lady that lives in America ? |
| 10 | and Paul was coming up the stairs , I said is that the police , is that a police car ? |
| 11 | And if you cast your minds way back to Tuesday you will remember that what I said was that the Americans were trying to create a system of limited government er and yet one which er protected the liberties of individuals not all individuals , not black individuals especially but of individuals , this was the rhetoric of the time and the main device that they invented to do this was something called the separation of powers and they argued that , where political power is concentrated , the potential for abuse is greater so that where executive and legislative powers are held in the same hands , as they are in our system of government , the , there is more prospect of government encroaching upon the rights of individuals . |
| 12 | The one minor gripe I have is that the Pioneer does n't have mudguards . |
| 13 | th th the building went ahead and people every year or two sometimes twice in a year get flooded and they get sewages the the sewer with the volume of rain water they ca n't otherwise get away , but it brings to light what happens i i i in the ditches and , and the waterways that are spread across the direction of Airport and then out into the river when the tide is low because the switches close when the tide comes in and basically er and this is up to date information the information that I have is that the channels are the responsibility of the er you know responsibilities are either kept cleared or not clogged up and in connection with the , with the incident I , I did hear it said that in , in a place where once said it usually counts that possibly and more than the that the first flood was due because the drains and the ditches could n't take the volume of water after they were cleared and things have been pretty reasonable erm since that time , so it would seem to confirm what , what I have to say about keeping clear erm but it may be that authorities that were n't responsible had the job of cleaning them , I do n't know . |
| 14 | oh I see is that the paper we bought from that shop ? |
| 15 | The point a lot of you made was that the course does seem to be very based on one text , the Arnold text and you 're quite , well you 're almost right about that . |
| 16 | All she knew was that the vehicle was behind her now . |
| 17 | The chief lesson you gather is that the South African police are remarkably well-informed and the ANC recruitment procedure sadly lax . |
| 18 | All you said was that the Koran was n't an easy read . |
| 19 | Er , I make the point I think that , erm , we should oppose the er , Deregulation Bill if it 's based on providing deregulation by Ministers , because I think that 's a constitutional point that is of great import , but the , the rest of it erm , are really sets of principles that I hope you 'd agree to , subject to amen amendment and dis discussion , because the information that we got is that the consultation period is going to be very tight indeed , and that it might not be able to go through the normal committee procedures in order to put things through erm , with er , proposals in that , er , in that respect . |
| 20 | But I think , but I do think it does mean that the first thing we say is that the work is more important than some of , maybe some of the , the nicer to have three year projects at the moment . |
| 21 | ‘ The last official reason we received was that the Treasury was unwilling to approve any more sports . ’ |
| 22 | I think one of the problems we face is that the campaign for is coincided with the campaign to save the pits . |
| 23 | Anyway , the only we know is that the lifeboat was washed ashore near , and not a sign of of men on it . |
| 24 | All we know is that the container or bottle was never found . |
| 25 | So all we know is that the universe is expanding by between 5 percent and 10 percent every thousand million years . |
| 26 | We do n't have any difficulty with that , what we find is that the relatives of the people involved have the difficulty . |
| 27 | In paragraph 78 , the report records the Secretary of State as saying : ’ the view that we took was that the technology that was involved was reasonably well proven We were perfectly satisfied that it would work . ’ |
| 28 | there 's no problem there , erm , but because we do n't actually have a radio that gets us the World Service , the people did n't know what was going on , the only thing that we knew was that the air , because Riyadh is a military city |
| 29 | What neither of them knew was that the morning pouch from Riyadh contained a confidential letter from Steve Pyle to the London-based General Manager for Overseas Operations . |
| 30 | The surprising conclusion they suggest is that the Council was more of a brake on the sovereignty of the Assembly than is usually supposed . |