Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [vb pp] [that] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am determined that this exciting opportunity should not be lost , ’ he said . |
| 2 | The more I drink , the more I am persuaded that young wines offer most pleasure ; a constantly renewable resource , popping up fresh every year . |
| 3 | I am informed that local authorities currently have to make their requests through the police . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | John MacGregor , Minister of Agriculture , Fisheries and Food I am advised that hard cheese processes suppress and kill off pathogens . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Well I am told that that is the earliest thing at all . |
| 8 | I am told that Honest John has taken to phoning up editors of the papers that helped him regain power to plead with them not to be so beastly . |
| 9 | I am told that other people have had similar experiences but are not prepared to enlarge on their stories ; perhaps they had seen a ghost of a long-gone railwayman who had worked in the area years ago and had come back to his earthly place of employment ! |
| 10 | And I am told that another Metro got similar treatment in Newtownards on that Friday evening . |
| 11 | In both subjects I am told that more time and more help is needed to spread the ideas , to run courses , to try out new approaches in different situations , to evaluate the success of the last step before embarking on the next , but the curriculum workers I met were disturbed that they were unable to provide what they knew teachers needed . |
| 12 | We do n't have a dishwasher either but I 'm assured that these two things can Totally Change Your Life and you wonder how you ever lived without them . |
| 13 | I 'm disturbed that one or two suppliers of environmentally-friendly products seem to be adopting conventionally unscrupulous tactics in order to sell their goods . |
| 14 | to , to , I mean when I first had the er plaster off , which was for ten days it was , I could not believe it that these fingers were not going but I 'm told that that 's quite usual . |
| 15 | I 'm told that professional painters now have shade cards that provide a selection of 3,000 colours . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | I have never seen an avocet in Cornwall , but I 'm told that this rare and unique bird has been spotted on these marshes . |
| 18 | Women made up only a minor proportion of the prison population in Geurrero and I was assured that this situation was reflected throughout Mexico . |
| 19 | When I wrote a popular book recently , I was advised that each equation I included would halve the sales . |
| 20 | I was told that all I needed to know was the total spend and that was it . |
| 21 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 22 | I was told that each train which passed us happened to be the one that was taking Tam Mahaddie away to kill the Kaiser and win the war . |
| 23 | Does the Secretary of State recall that in answer to an earlier question of mine to his colleague at the Department of Employment , I was told that 25,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost in the past 12 months in Yorkshire and Humberside ? |
| 24 | I did not receive a thank you from the owner of these cards nor from the Midland Bank , yet I was told that common practice in Britain is to reward the finder . |
| 25 | On a recent visit to a day centre , which served both younger disabled and old people , I was told that old people were envious and resentful when computer learning was introduced for the younger disabled people . |
| 26 | I have asked parliamentary questions about the illegal sale and possession of knives and I was told that 150 people were prosecuted in 1988 for having in a public place such an article with a blade or point and in 1989 , it was 2,018 — a huge jump . |
| 27 | I feel I must reply to some of the points Mr , Findlay made during the course of the conversation ( I was told that these were not just his views , ie. he had discussed the matter with you ) . |
| 28 | Among the films I brought was that of the Scharnhorst and when its showing time was listed in the ship 's paper , I was informed that one of the passengers , a Captain Danckwerts , had been the Scharnhorst 's wartime assistant navigating officer . |
| 29 | I was informed that this was the third ’ clip out ’ he had had during the night on that rod , the other two having been either aborted or missed . |
| 30 | 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 . |