Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | The title of this article may suggest that I am claiming that all girls are marginalised in mathematics , but I hope that I have indicated that the situation we actually see is far more complicated than this . |
| 6 | I 'm told that professional painters now have shade cards that provide a selection of 3,000 colours . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She 's hoping that private businesses will contribute to the upkeep . |
| 13 | We are assured that both MPs retained a smiling dignity throughout . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | We are saying that some populations ( i.e. sexual ones ) evolve faster than others , and hence will survive when others go extinct . |
| 19 | We are told that such schools will be given funds with which to buy back LEA services — if they choose . |
| 20 | ‘ We 're hoping that these pings and pops will prove to be sexually attractive to this group of males . |
| 21 | They are demanding that richer countries cut back their carbon emissions to compensate . |
| 22 | They 're warning that overloaded vehicles are dangerous and can cause serious accidents . |
| 23 | There were no good rules and regulations , and hospitals and insurance companies felt that they ought not to sit down and make them because , once they made them , they were admitting that these things were taking place and that such decisions were being made and were subject not only to public scrutiny but a threat of medical malpractice suits . |
| 24 | Those admitted to Belgium were put on a train whose doors were locked and windows nailed shut ; they were told that such measures were necessary for their own protection . |
| 25 | The discussion about the service policeman 's job prospects might have been more sanguine had it been known that civil servants in Whitehall were reading a provocative paper on full employment policy . |
| 26 | Nor can it be assumed that all parts of the biosphere have the same 14 C concentration . |
| 27 | Nor can it be assumed that professional courses always tackle the social aspects : How much do accountants or pharmacists consider the professional client relationship ? |
| 28 | Only by engaging in extreme forms of economic casuistry can it be claimed that such things can be supplied satisfactorily without the agency of government at either national or local level . |
| 29 | Neither should it be thought that informal methods necessarily lead to untidy work presented in a poor hand . |
| 30 | As to schools , a DES spokesperson let it be known that such concerns are left to the LEAs and that studies of this kind are likely to be part of religious education . |