Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [that] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It would be wrong for me to pretend that these problems can be solved quickly — if they can be solved at all . |
| 2 | Nor am I suggesting that black children are somehow linguistically deficient or unable to separate English from Creole . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I contend that such Biros employ an advanced form of camouflage . |
| 6 | ' I contend that these crowds spontaneously generate from microscopic spores which constantly drift about in our atmosphere , awaiting the perfect conditions in which to briefly flourish . |
| 7 | Earlier this year , I announced that local authorities would receive aggregate external finance of £5.13 billion . |
| 8 | When I had finished , and when we had counted the money in the hat ( which we did round the corner , discreetly ) , I realized that four songs had earned us enough to pay for a proper meal , each , in a cheap restaurant . |
| 9 | Though , as he agreed in throwing Coe overboard while Barry and I were reported , virtually , by the select committee , to be on an equality , I fear that personal feelings together with hostility to my style , had an even stronger influence . |
| 10 | I fear that such risks will be taken by the government here too . |
| 11 | I do hope that it will be possible for you to participate in this exercise , even though I realise that many demands are made on people 's time . |
| 12 | I expect that most readers are in the 20–30 age group . |
| 13 | In the simplest I found that many owners saw their houses as white elephants . |
| 14 | One symptomatic phenomenon was revealed in my own research in Leicester for an Open University television programme , when I found that many teachers of English were unwilling to come to terms with the interest and creative potential of Asian students in English language , literature and drama . |
| 15 | Yet during interviews with managers involved , I found that other factors were at work . |
| 16 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 17 | I found that most parents were initially rather shocked at finding out their daughter was pregnant , some cried , some got angry , some were very matter-of-fact , and some were quite pleased . |
| 18 | Instead , I found that military firms are to blame for selling all the arms to these poor countries and most of the sales go on without the governments knowing . |
| 19 | On the first morning came two shocks — I found that Christian names were dropped — from now on I was Maidment . |
| 20 | Perhaps I will convey a better idea of the tone of those evenings if I say that regular visitors included the likes of Mr Harry Graham , valet-butler to Sir James Chambers , and Mr John Donalds , valet to Mr Sydney Dickenson . |
| 21 | I suggest that general practitioners ' decisions are generally what Spiegelhalter and colleagues call stage 1 decisions — that is , unaided intuitive judgments . |
| 22 | I suggest that four suspects as well as your murderer will be quite enough to cope with . |
| 23 | ‘ Having in mind all the circumstances I suggest that active inquiries in this case be suspended until fresh information is forthcoming . |
| 24 | ’ In order to ascertain the indigenous meanings , I suggest that indigenous concepts be explored , and the vocabulary denoting inner states examined . |
| 25 | I suggest that these meanings arise from everyday discourse , which habitually makes use of oppositions such as masculinity/femininity , science/arts — oppositions which make sense only in relation to each other . |
| 26 | If that is the case I imagine that more Scots will wish to take advantage of trust status . |
| 27 | I conclude that such carers will either be obtained from the crossroads organisation or something similar or from private advertisement but not from a nursing agency . |
| 28 | Unlike most of the sights before , you are unlikely to be standing alone and I noticed that other visitors wandered round in disbelieving silence . |
| 29 | About this time I noticed that those crews who consistently got aiming point pictures on the bomb plots issued by HQ Bomber Command after each raid were never selected for PFF . |
| 30 | In Norway recently , I noticed that most buildings had a flag pole with their national colours flying . |