Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [vb pp] [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more I drink , the more I am persuaded that young wines offer most pleasure ; a constantly renewable resource , popping up fresh every year . |
| 2 | I am informed that local authorities currently have to make their requests through the police . |
| 3 | These figures do not allow any sum for interest and therefore it may be that calculations will have to be made by council to include that figure or alternatively I am informed that both parties wish to consider the possibility of the incorporation of this judgement into a structured settlement . |
| 4 | John MacGregor , Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food I am advised that hard cheese processes suppress and kill off pathogens . |
| 5 | I am advised that local authorities seeking simply to provide the public with access to a comprehensive range of artistic and literary materials will not be put at risk by this provision . |
| 6 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 7 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 8 | And I am told that another Metro got similar treatment in Newtownards on that Friday evening . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I 'm told that professional painters now have shade cards that provide a selection of 3,000 colours . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm told that nine inches of rain fell during the twenty-four hours prior to the flood , and that five of those inches were in one single hour , ’ he said . |
| 12 | Women made up only a minor proportion of the prison population in Geurrero and I was assured that this situation was reflected throughout Mexico . |
| 13 | When I wrote a popular book recently , I was advised that each equation I included would halve the sales . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | On a recent visit to a day centre , which served both younger disabled and old people , I was told that old people were envious and resentful when computer learning was introduced for the younger disabled people . |
| 19 | I have asked parliamentary questions about the illegal sale and possession of knives and I was told that 150 people were prosecuted in 1988 for having in a public place such an article with a blade or point and in 1989 , it was 2,018 — a huge jump . |
| 20 | That was er a flat in Plumtree , we were offered a flat on the first floor and when we examined the kitchen it was extremely obvious to me that our gas cooker would n't fit in the , the place where it was designed to fit , when I asked where do we put the washing machine I was informed that most tenants kept the washing machine on the balcony , when I said well where do we put the refrigerator , well most people keep the refrigerator either in the hall or , or rather not a hall it was a passageway , in the passageway or in the living room , now it does seem to me with hindsight that if that 's planning I , to use an old fashion London phrase , I 'm a Dutchman . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |
| 23 | She was advised that formal evidence would have to be called in order for her to form an opinion under section 7(5) of the Act of 1976 as to whether the defendant should be remanded in custody or on bail on the same or more stringent conditions , and that accordingly the hearing would in effect be a trial and would require to be heard before at least two justices . |
| 24 | In Kendra Sone 's article ‘ Vetting equality ’ ( 16 February ) we are warned that psychometric testing , when used for selecting candidates , should be used with care and that candidates could find themselves open to discrimination if such tests become part of tougher selection processes . |
| 25 | All parking signs have now been placed in position as requested by the Committee , and we are assured that twelve parking places are to be delineated at the Nursing Home end , which should alleviate the parking problem . |
| 26 | We are assured that both MPs retained a smiling dignity throughout . |
| 27 | Where some women are free to make vows of chastity , we are reminded that all women should be free to refuse men access to them . |
| 28 | We are told that such schools will be given funds with which to buy back LEA services — if they choose . |
| 29 | When this absolute test is not met we are told that significant benefit or risk remains . |
| 30 | What Bet and Alec thought of a packed house replete with Manc ravers is anyone 's guess but we are told that this event , which was a joint Most Excellent and A Bit Ginger promotion , had the Mancunian cognoscenti rocking over the most famous beermats in Britain . |