Example sentences of "[pers pn] [am/are] [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 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | We are assured that both MPs retained a smiling dignity throughout . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | We are told that such schools will be given funds with which to buy back LEA services — if they choose . |
| 17 | When this absolute test is not met we are told that significant benefit or risk remains . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Now we are told that universal capping is necessary because the Secretary of State and his colleagues are frightened of trusting local people to make local decisions under the new banded system . |
| 20 | Once we 're found that favourite shape , there is nothing more frustrating than discovering that fashion has made it obsolete . |
| 21 | They are told that this sort of question or embellishment is inappropriate . |
| 22 | ( Lest it be thought that that example does not count because it is seventeenth-century English , it is worth noting that modern translations retain the and at the beginning of that verse . ) |