Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [that] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | 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 . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | I was arguing that gay people have nothing to be ashamed of and yet my troops remained invisible as though they needed convincing too . |
| 37 | If you 're pr promoting that rich peasant economy , you are hoping that middle peasants will be upwardly ambitious and mobile and , and will also move up to be , to be rich peasants . |
| 38 | Well , see when you 're drinking that all day long |
| 39 | I take the point that you 're suggesting that another group may have re- considered it 's position . |
| 40 | alright , well then building on that I do n't quite understand it , if you 're , you 're saying that those provisions that allow agents to pull for whatever funds are necessary are what , void to what extent to the extent that the funds are or are said to be erm needed to satisfy claims on policies which had you known that which you say you ought to have known , you would not have er authorised the agents to write , type rather long that , but I |
| 41 | After a pause , she said , ‘ And you were hoping that one day she 'd give up seeing men altogether and have a steady relationship with you ? ’ |
| 42 | She 's warning that more lives will be lost because cars and lorries are racing through the main street at up to eighty miles an hour . |
| 43 | She 's hoping that private businesses will contribute to the upkeep . |
| 44 | In the language of contemporary sociology , she is saying that juvenile delinquency is a subculture … |
| 45 | Cos I was talking to Lilian , she was thinking that each year she 'd be given an update it should be a five year plan . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | I was talking to a woman and she was saying that young people were n't the same in her day . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | Also , as you all know , the festive season is fast approaching and in Glasgow the Committee will be helping to sell raffle tickets to raise funds for a good cause , every year we hold a raffle on the day of the Christmas lunch and we are hoping that this year we will raise a substantial amount . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | We are assured that both MPs retained a smiling dignity throughout . |
| 53 | Note that we are assuming that both sets of firms sell their output at the price p t and that they have identical real wage elasticities of demand ( - α ) : that is , the firms are identical in every respect other than the timing of their wage contracts . |
| 54 | In this sense we are arguing that all accounts , including those that aspire to academic objectivity , are structured by the social contexts in which they are generated . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | A problem with this idea is of course that most dreams are not remembered , so that even if solutions to problems are achieved during dreams they can not be regarded as adaptive , unless we are to believe that these solutions are somehow incorporated unconsciously . |
| 57 | ‘ We are saying that higher education is on the point of collapse , and unless something very radical is done to repair that damage we are going to have a completely different type of education system in the future , ’ he said . |
| 58 | We are saying that some populations ( i.e. sexual ones ) evolve faster than others , and hence will survive when others go extinct . |
| 59 | We are saying that this applicant does not do that |
| 60 | Oh , that too erm that we are , had , if we are saying that this evening we are looking at communications and different elements of it , I think this is an area which if ever there was an example of how perhaps not to do it how to blow it askew , it 's probably the best one we 've had in , in decades . |