Example sentences of "[am/are] [adj] [pron] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am sorry it took place but I promise you it would be wisest to go home and forget it . ’ |
| 2 | By the way , I really am sorry I hit Gavin . |
| 3 | There are few who express complaints with the quality of care offered . |
| 4 | ‘ I am afraid I took pains to look out at the other side so as not to see him , ’ she had said . |
| 5 | I am afraid she gives way to her feelings more than she ought to do . ’ |
| 6 | Supporters of a more means-tested approach are also much more likely to favour some type of negative income tax scheme and argue that within each contingent class there are some who need help and some who do not , so that the rich in ‘ needy-contingent ’ categories gain at the expense of the poor in less needy-contingent categories , e.g. the low-paid workers . |
| 7 | Alternatively , because these needs are contradictory it inhibits progress toward user participation and control ( Dartington et al . , |
| 8 | Senior police officers are convinced he had knowledge of who was behind the gangland executions of Glover and Hanlon . |
| 9 | There are fewer who read Czech poetry , or have their paintings exhibited regularly in London and Edinburgh . |
| 10 | I AM glad you publicised Victoria Stone 's campaign for legislation to prevent learner drivers being supervised by , perhaps , an equally young but recently-qualified driver ( Weekend Guardian , October 28 ) . |
| 11 | I am glad you like Mr. Gould : — he has been always very obliging to me — although I never knew him till lately : Mrs. G. appears an exceedingly pleasant & amiable woman . |
| 12 | Structures where economic relationships are primary we call class societies , and in these we refer to the different unequal groups as classes . |
| 13 | When I am freezing I get cramp an I go crazy . |
| 14 | Restaurants , household and other personal services and less elegant public employments are all their conceded domain . |
| 15 | There are many who feel prisoners have had it too easy . |
| 16 | In the health service , job evaluation systems already cover ancillary , administrative and technical staff , but in nursing , where Whitley pay and conditions of service have long been established and clinical grading is now under way , there are many who think job evaluation is unnecessary . |
| 17 | I am sure ye have books , ’ he added with unusual thoughtfulness . |
| 18 | I am sure she consumes bread and fruit in the middle of the night . |
| 19 | ‘ I am sure you have business of your own with our friend here . |
| 20 | I am sure you have neighbours like that , too . |
| 21 | I am sure I spotted Nico Ladenis preparing some divine demi-glace and Bohringer , the head chef , bore an uncanny resemblance to Michel Guerard , one of France 's three-star Michelin men . |
| 22 | For a teacher not to know which national policies exist and how financial considerations affect those policies creates — as far as parents are concerned who want information and advice — an unreliable ignorance . |
| 23 | The most interesting are those which portray population flows as scaled ribbons on the network diagram , and evacuation shelter capacities as bar diagrams . |
| 24 | The most useful activities are those which stimulate children into thinking dynamically and constructively about what they have been doing . |
| 25 | Analytic statements are those which relate concepts to concepts and are true ( or false ) solely in virtue of the meanings of their terms , for instance the statement that all bachelors are unmarried . |
| 26 | The parts of the Old Testament which cause greatest offence are those which depict God as a God of anger , who orders his servants to act in judgement for him . |
| 27 | The main internal relations they are concerned with are those which generate waves of innovation by industrial enterprises . |
| 28 | The most successful agricultural systems in terms of sustained productivity and the least environmentally degrading are those which involve crop rotations and an adequate fallow period . |
| 29 | The workers ' rights we believe in are those which enhance individuals ' status and opportunities . |
| 30 | Function words are those which give structure to a sentence , such as articles , pronouns , prepositions , etc . |