Example sentences of "be i [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nor am I suggesting that black children are somehow linguistically deficient or unable to separate English from Creole . |
| 2 | Nor am I suggesting that these strategies are in fact used by professional translators in any significant way ; one has to acknowledge that , in spite of being available in theory , they are in fact rarely used in practice . |
| 3 | Not for a moment am I suggesting that these figures , always in billions , are not important ; only that I , an innumerate , can not make head or tail of them . |
| 4 | How was I to know that stupid woman would call the police ? ’ |
| 5 | How was I to know that old Ian had n't trekked across South Africa with a couple of elephants and demanded ‘ an audience with Nelson or I 'll smash you with a stump , . |