Example sentences of "[pers pn] is [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know what it is to be alone , to fear death , I know and she is unaware that I know , and yet I have to go to her , I have to leave the safety of my room . |
| 2 | By next year , she is confident that two thirds of hospitals will have become self-governing trusts within the NHS . |
| 3 | When being questioned by magistrates about her teaching ( they were suspicious of her on the grounds of her sex and lack of social position ) she is confident that a greater Lord will answer for her . |
| 4 | She is sure that this will settle them for the foreseeable future . |
| 5 | If she is sure that she would not qualify for a supplementary pension and wishes to apply for a rent rebate or allowance , an application form , and the information leaflet There 's Money off your Rent , can be obtained from the local authority Housing Department . |
| 6 | ‘ Now she is sure that we are lovers . ’ |
| 7 | Trish had never been able to trace Will 's breeder , though she is certain that he is mostly thoroughbred . |
| 8 | She is certain that this interest in their marathon game helped to smooth away many problems which could have arisen . |
| 9 | Princesse Mat says she is certain that they will have you . |
| 10 | But ‘ belong ’ — she is fearful that for her at least the word may explode , may vanish in a puff of smoke as delicate as the smoke that trickles from Fenna 's nostrils when he is asleep ; as delicate as the fronds of smoke that drift mysteriously from the end of Phoebe 's cigarette when she gestures impatiently in conversation . |
| 11 | She is grateful that he does not wake Veronica . |
| 12 | As the corporals head for lunch they pass a recruit from the TA platoon shepherding her visitors toward the museum , Where she is convinced that she has found a photograph of her mother , Who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service in 1945 . |
| 13 | She knows what I 've got yet she is convinced that if she looks after me I 'll get better . |
| 14 | She is convinced that it works ; it ca n't fail . |
| 15 | Langer has done a good deal of research into the evaluation of this approach to schema activation , and she is convinced that is helps poor readers and good readers alike to learn more from difficult textbooks . |
| 16 | Nevertheless , despite saying so , she is convinced that his diary is full of entries about her . |
| 17 | We are back with appropriateness of response : a mother who has difficulty in feeding her baby may persist , because she is anxious that the baby should be properly fed , in prolonging a painful experience beyond her own and the baby 's endurance . |
| 18 | She is adamant that she will not tour until she feels she is ready . |
| 19 | Mary did n't get hit , but she is adamant that her father threw the tray of cups and saucers to the floor and they did n't just fall . |
| 20 | She is adamant that under no circumstances would she consent to further use of a nasogastric tube , whether or not she was drugged to such a degree that she felt little discomfort as it was pushed down into her stomach . |
| 21 | In all these topics she is concerned that there should be a proper recognition of the needs of the older people in our community . |
| 22 | LIBERAL Democrat candidate Rosamund Jordan has said she is concerned that the developer of a proposed five-a-side football complex at Claiville Common , Middlesbrough , seems reluctant to go ahead without a licensed bar . |
| 23 | A few days later , an irate Mrs Jacobs was in touch : ‘ She stated that neither she nor her husband saw our representative and she is annoyed that ‘ some person ’ should have questioned her servants about their private affairs . ’ |
| 24 | She is furious that he has married beneath him , but appalled when her vicious attack on him threatens to end their relationship for ever . |
| 25 | Although she turns up for the interview her customary peaked-capped urchin self , she is worried that her feminist interpreters will consider her video a sell-out . |
| 26 | She is worried about me not eating , she is worried that my periods have stopped , that I look thinner and thinner , that my hair has gone dry and flat and rasps like paper when you touch it , but she also admires me . |
| 27 | There is a moment here when Fred Pearson 's Shotover ( looking like a raffish , siren-suited version of Shaw himself ) says of his daughter , Lady Utterword , that she is afraid that she has no heart to break : at which point Jennie Stoller 's stately , voluptuous Ariadne throws himself at his feet with a wrenching poignancy . |
| 28 | She resists being fed because she is afraid that she will swell up and become too big for her coffin . |
| 29 | I think she is afraid that you might be embarrassed . |
| 30 | Consequently it is necessary for him to provide her with feedback so that she is aware that her opinion is duly considered . |