Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] [that] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am determined that this exciting opportunity should not be lost , ’ he said . |
| 2 | We do n't have a dishwasher either but I 'm assured that these two things can Totally Change Your Life and you wonder how you ever lived without them . |
| 3 | I have never seen an avocet in Cornwall , but I 'm told that this rare and unique bird has been spotted on these marshes . |
| 4 | ‘ The one and only thing you share ultimately together is sex and if you step outside your marriage you are sharing that one ultimate thing with another body another person , ’ Claudette tells him . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ You are saying that all those people in my constituency ‘ We do n't want you . |
| 6 | You are told that all these ritual practices have now come to an end , for the coming of Jesus makes all ceremonial redundant . |
| 7 | You 're suggesting that these simple tasks are beyond my capabilities ? ’ |
| 8 | ‘ You 're saying that this crazed man fitted the picture ? ’ |
| 9 | You 're told that that particular function is equal to that . |
| 10 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
| 11 | Instead we are arguing that all academic texts are effectively working with a particular brief and it is important that this be either spelled out in the production of academic texts or taken apart systematically by the readership . |
| 12 | WE are told that 13 million people plan to escape from polluted cities to the clean country — but who polluted the cities in the first place ? |
| 13 | Then , we are told that this constant presence of God guiding and helping his people has been completed . |
| 14 | We are told that these last four words are Rimbaud 's and the Surrealist André Breton 's , and that in 1968 they were a slogan of the protesting Sorbonne students . |
| 15 | Can we be assured that those regional representatives will reflect the political majority in those regions and will not simply be Government nominees , as we have seen in so many quangos and regional bodies that have been set up in recent years ? |
| 16 | And they are insisting that any cross-channel transfer fee for O'Hare or winger Johnny McIvor be ploughed back into strengthening the team locally . |
| 17 | But they 're warning that nineteen ninety three could be different — with new EC regulations allowing in a flood of dangerous fireworks from Europe . |
| 18 | However , while there is extensive evidence of assortative mating ( O'Donald , 1980 ) , of the importance of plumage characteristics in courtship ( Williams , 1982 ) and of female preference for males who can defend superior breeding territories ( Pleszczynska , 1978 ) only very recently has it been demonstrated that consistent female choice for any continuous morphological character in males is an important source of variation in male reproductive success . |
| 19 | STV propagandists let it be understood that each major party will put up a candidate for every seat . |
| 20 | Nor can it be contended that this harsh judgement on Socrates was in any way typical of Athenian democracy 's attitudes towards its critics or even its enemies . |
| 21 | But , as one eminent Scottish judge pointed out in MacCormick v Lord Advocate ( above ) , why should it be assumed that successive reconstituted Parliaments at Westminster have inherited the attribute of ‘ sovereignty ’ peculiar ( and , as is above suggested , perhaps with a limited meaning even then ) to the English Parliament . |
| 22 | Now it 's hoped that these hungry youngsters will soon have a mother of their own too . |
| 23 | It 's hoped that three thousand jobs will be created but now council leaders fear that , because of the recession , a buyer will be difficult to find . |
| 24 | I 'll give you another , it 's reckoned that ninety million tons of water , I 'll repeat that , ninety million tons of water , sufficient to supply the needs of this immediate area for over a hundred years , cascaded down off the moor that morning . |
| 25 | It 's estimated that 5,000 Somalian children are dying every day ; 3 every minute . |
| 26 | It 's alleged that twenty eight year old Andrew Livermore of Northampton , went to the home of Digby Saunderson last August and stabbed him to death on his doorstep . |
| 27 | That 's that 's part of , of presumably , one of the objections from the U K Government , erm , that essentially , it 's saying that that these arguments ca n't be , justified on health and safety grounds and that that the approach , de-regulation and freedom in the market to al allow people to do what they want to do , which is the fact that they , if they want to work twelve hours , then presumably the Government and yourself are supporting that that freedom . |
| 28 | A search of the area is still going on , but it 's thought that all 99 passengers and fourteen crew were killed . |
| 29 | ‘ It is fitting that these important landscape features should be given priority and where possible repaired or rebuilt , ’ said a spokesman . |
| 30 | It is hypothesised that most existing studies of adoption are not sufficiently long term to , demonstrate these effects . |