Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] is [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing that doing the talk show has taught me is that people hear what they expect to hear . |
| 2 | ‘ One thing these workless weeks in Venice have taught me is that I need my profession . |
| 3 | The Americans tried to do it in Panama , what disgusts me is that these are the pictures that sold , the ones done when there was no more opposition . |
| 4 | The first thing I said to the commissioning editors when I met them is that I would not commission one programme . |
| 5 | The problem with using them is that they may produce a self-fulfilling prophecy . |
| 6 | ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully . |
| 7 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 8 | What impresses me is that when the causes of this ancient conflict have been forgotten , except by those who have made a study of it , this monument remains , crudely chiselled and doubtless seldom visited , testament to three modest souls who died for what they believed in and who are otherwise lost to history . |
| 9 | What astonishes me is that the whole subject of injury from radiation seems to have been treated at the time with a casualness that approaches imbecility . |
| 10 | What amazes me is that , in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen , I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion . |
| 11 | What worries me is that they may break down the wall scrambling over it . |
| 12 | But what worries me is that , since middle age has been put to fright , will old age descend overnight like a sudden frost on the dew ? ’ |
| 13 | What worries me is that it is not going to end there . |
| 14 | I 'm no expert , but what worries me is that , when you 're dealing with madmen , they increase their demands at the slightest sign of weakness . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The one thing that worries me is that I do n't think he cares . |
| 16 | The only thing , the only thing that worries me is that the thing gets priority . |
| 17 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 18 | But I think there is I mean something that ought to be mentioned one of the things that worries me is that there is n't here today a man of the type that I meet every day in Oxford who says ‘ sexual harassment ? |
| 19 | Erm , this is something that I 've spoken with about over a long period and what really has concerned me is that we 've two red signals , both facing the traffic and children and blind people could be crossing thinking the traffic had held up , and when I or detecting we rely on our own engineers maybe going round that way , maybe the police or public reporting it . |
| 20 | can promise you is that commissions awarded on basis of competition , we were looking for quality , we invited bids , we |
| 21 | The evidence on which I base it is that , within three weeks of the White Paper being introduced in the middle of this year , there were 15 announcements of changes to the proposals now in the legislation . |
| 22 | Without for one moment implying any impropriety , this last episode demonstrates how deliciously appropriate it is that Mr Wyatt should subsequently have struck up such a warm friendship with the world 's foremost collector of air miles . |
| 23 | ‘ What worries us is that our sales could be affected because fingers of suspicion are being pointed at us . ’ |
| 24 | the reason the world does n't know us is that it did not know him . |
| 25 | At the moment the advice they will give you is that erm you 're okay , but they are reviewing the regulations and once they actually er reach a decision then that work will be . |
| 26 | Cos what normally happens is with tetanus , that the reason it kills you is that you stop breathing because your muscles that work your lungs , the diaphragm , the intercostal muscles between the ribs , those seize up and you just stop breathing . |
| 27 | The best answer that I can give him is that the fact that Mr. Thorpe had available to him the escape route of appealing to a health authority elsewhere in the country meant that the process was not carried to its conclusion in north Devon . |
| 28 | Why why do you feel it is that people are suspicious of their neighbours ? |
| 29 | The easy way to remember it is that for a ‘ lesser ’ number of degrees , you turn ‘ left ’ , e.g. turning from 350° to 320° is turning to a lesser number and therefore you turn left . |
| 30 | The reason why we 've stopped you is that there 's no disc on your windscreen . |