Example sentences of "[pers pn] [is] [verb] that [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She 's warning that more lives will be lost because cars and lorries are racing through the main street at up to eighty miles an hour . |
2 | She 's hoping that private businesses will contribute to the upkeep . |
3 | Nicola from Chartbury in Oxfordshire is very worried about her younger son , and she is hoping that some of you may be able to help . |
4 | In the language of contemporary sociology , she is saying that juvenile delinquency is a subculture … |
5 | She is saying that this good thing , this knowledge , can be used — to tell us , for example , that Amis is not a Tudor writer : but she is rather more moved to say at the same time that it ca n't or can hardly be used , devoted as she is to the thought of a separation between , in this case , Amis 's friendships and politics , his life — and his art . |
6 | Either it 's argued that British life does n't show up well in front of a film camera , or that British filmmakers are n't capable of using that camera to probe behind the surface of things . |
7 | Even today , when the tottering of a Goldcrest or TESE is taken as a sign that the film industry is going under , it 's assumed that big companies are the key to surviving in the film business , because that 's the way they do things in LA . |
8 | Of course , it 's recognised that some of those allocated these vouchers will sell them straight away to others having money . |
9 | Now it 's hoped that these hungry youngsters will soon have a mother of their own too . |
10 | By using a combination of laser optics and cancer drugs , it 's hoped that some patients will be in and out of hospital within a day . |
11 | Now with living proof of patients like Michael , and researchers evidence it 's hoped that any doubts doctors may have had about penicillin will dissapear . |
12 | It 's hoped that three thousand jobs will be created but now council leaders fear that , because of the recession , a buyer will be difficult to find . |
13 | But it 's hoped that more people will choose to have it . |
14 | It 's hoped that more cameras will be installed , financed by local businesses . |
15 | And while it 's said that central government intervention would ‘ not be appropriate ’ , campaigners feel the only way to improve matters is through legislation . |
16 | It 's unsurprising that such an attitude failed to produce competent screenwriters , let alone exciting ones . |
17 | I 'll give you another , it 's reckoned that ninety million tons of water , I 'll repeat that , ninety million tons of water , sufficient to supply the needs of this immediate area for over a hundred years , cascaded down off the moor that morning . |
18 | It 's estimated that 5,000 Somalian children are dying every day ; 3 every minute . |
19 | It 's estimated that each day another three species are lost for ever . |
20 | 40 escalators out of service over the 270 stations , but fret not ; it 's estimated that all will have been repaired by 1996 . |
21 | It 's estimated that half a million pounds worth have been smuggled out of the country already this year . |
22 | In fact it 's estimated that most of the major cave systems in the world today started life between 10,000 to two million years ago . |
23 | Worst affected is Somalia , where it 's estimated that three children are dying every minute . |
24 | It 's alleged that twenty eight year old Andrew Livermore of Northampton , went to the home of Digby Saunderson last August and stabbed him to death on his doorstep . |
25 | It 's recommended that these are used in conjunction with brushes to keep them from clogging . |
26 | That 's that 's part of , of presumably , one of the objections from the U K Government , erm , that essentially , it 's saying that that these arguments ca n't be , justified on health and safety grounds and that that the approach , de-regulation and freedom in the market to al allow people to do what they want to do , which is the fact that they , if they want to work twelve hours , then presumably the Government and yourself are supporting that that freedom . |
27 | It 's explaining that this is what the recommendation is , however , I 'm not a dictator , I 'm put there by you voters , your representatives have got to decide . |
28 | So rather than pay nine pounds ninety pence it 's claimed that many lorry drivers take a detour through gloucester , then heading back down the A48 through Newhnam . |
29 | IT 'S claimed that next to losing a spouse , moving house is one of the most stressful things you 're likely to go through . |
30 | Critchley 's party-piece has the rounded phrasing , the well-turned punchline of frequent rehearsal ( it 's claimed that some of his fans can recite it back to him ) , but it captures the tone of the Tories in those days perfectly . |