Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am hoping that the Labour Group leader comes back and says : ‘ Prove it . ’ |
| 2 | I am determined that the highest and most stringent safety requirements should be adhered to , and the regulatory bodies must be satisfied that any work done at Dounreay is carried out to the highest standards . |
| 3 | I am suggesting that the British crime survey is very important . |
| 4 | Indeed , I am persuaded that the central criteria against which I have had to measure these applications will be met , and that patient care will be advanced very considerably . |
| 5 | I am not arguing that there are no uses for a conceptual demarcation of classes quite distinct from the demarcations present within popular ideology — on the contrary , I have used such a demarcation in previous chapters — but I am arguing that the latter demarcations have a real importance and should not be dismissed as merely ‘ subjective ’ . |
| 6 | At the end of the public road is a notice prohibiting cars from going further , and I am told that the new owners of the Killilan estate are enforcing this ban fairly strictly but not in all cases . |
| 7 | I am told that the same considerations of constituency difficulty , demography and geography would apply to rearranging the constituencies within Scotland . |
| 8 | I am told that the tapered polyester bristles have a different shape cross-section to conventional bristles , octagonal in fact . |
| 9 | I am told that the Chinese name for them ( the shrub comes from China ) is ‘ cat droppings ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm hoping that the second half of 1993 will be an improvement . ’ |
| 11 | and I 'm hoping that the local authority will start coming across with a bit of work for me . |
| 12 | Well I do n't I was suggesting we were becoming one but I was suggesting that the Prime Minister thought this is desirable . |
| 13 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 14 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 15 | I was told that the local authority were still maintaining an open mind about the possibility of placing the children with the father and that the choice of foster parents made in October was intended to cover the possibility of the children being returned to the father , but also to cover the possibility of a need for the children to be with foster parents for some longer time , in the event of the assessment of the father proving unsatisfactory . |
| 16 | I was told that the last thing a parish priest coming in would want would be to take place before he |
| 17 | When 1 commented to the hosts of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee ( under whose auspices 1 went ) on the use of steel for guarding the rings , I was told that the full , true installation ( ’ green field ’ ) cost would have been near to £50 million . |
| 18 | My apologies did little to assuage the situation and I was informed that the federal government had ruled against allowing key production personnel to enlist in the armed forces . |
| 19 | I was saying that the second major point of contention has to do with public consultation on the results of the Hydrotechnica report . |
| 20 | Have you been suggesting that the dead girl might have been your father 's mistress ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If I read you rightly , ’ said Radulfus , having searched Cadfael 's face , and found it in very grave earnest , ‘ you are saying that the young man was attacked in mistake for a Benedictine brother . ’ |
| 22 | You 're thinking that the gross is round about seven percent . |
| 23 | I think you 're suggesting that the local government would do a lot more if the national government would allow it , and I suspect you 're a Labour member of the Oxfordshire County Council and I think that you would point at the Conservative central government as being , if not deliberately anti-women , then the effect of some of it 's policies seemed to indicate that that 's where it 's heading . |
| 24 | She was determined that the new course would not bite the dust because of a rearguard action by a couple of old fogies like Maurice Webb and Henry Hedger . |
| 25 | She never said to whom that fresh statement was made , but it was apparent to the jury that she was saying that she had made a statement contrary to that incriminating one , and she was suggesting that the second statement set out her case as she was putting it in the witness box . |
| 26 | But since she knew that the Czech word for ‘ please ’ was ‘ prosím ’ she was hoping that the polite woman 's parting phrase had been the equivalent of an English ‘ Excuse me , please ’ while she went away to hand her card over to Vendelin Gajdusek . |
| 27 | Ever the optimist , Davies she was saying that the extra 's day 's practice would give her ‘ a headstart over the rest of them ’ . |
| 28 | This is an important time in the development of financial institutions across the community and we are determined that the actuarial professional should play its part in laying the proper foundations , to ensure the most effective protection for the rights and security of the ultimate consumer |
| 29 | We are expecting that the British economy next year should grow in line with the G7 average . |
| 30 | We are thinking that the listed men must each have a refuge ready , if this Act is not withdrawn . |