Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] that [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The festival is the brainchild of performer , director and playwright Cordelia Ditton and freelance arts administrator Dominic D'Angelo , both of whom are determined that the overall tone will be celebratory and upbeat . |
| 2 | ‘ I am hoping that the Labour Group leader comes back and says : ‘ Prove it . ’ |
| 3 | I am suggesting that the British crime survey is very important . |
| 4 | For instance , ‘ I am persuaded that a good gaoler can more easily manage his prisoners by humane attention than by severity and heavy irons ’ ( Howard 1792 : 145 ) ( writing about Maidstone County Gaol ) . |
| 5 | Indeed , I am persuaded that the central criteria against which I have had to measure these applications will be met , and that patient care will be advanced very considerably . |
| 6 | I am arguing that a common ground exists between theists and atheists , where each exchanges different interpretations of reality and understands each other 's views . |
| 7 | At the end of the public road is a notice prohibiting cars from going further , and I am told that the new owners of the Killilan estate are enforcing this ban fairly strictly but not in all cases . |
| 8 | I am told that the tapered polyester bristles have a different shape cross-section to conventional bristles , octagonal in fact . |
| 9 | I am told that the Chinese name for them ( the shrub comes from China ) is ‘ cat droppings ’ . |
| 10 | and I 'm hoping that the local authority will start coming across with a bit of work for me . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm told that an olive tree ’ , says Mr Pattea wonderingly , ‘ will produce for 400 years . ’ |
| 12 | Well I do n't I was suggesting we were becoming one but I was suggesting that the Prime Minister thought this is desirable . |
| 13 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 14 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 15 | I was told that the local authority were still maintaining an open mind about the possibility of placing the children with the father and that the choice of foster parents made in October was intended to cover the possibility of the children being returned to the father , but also to cover the possibility of a need for the children to be with foster parents for some longer time , in the event of the assessment of the father proving unsatisfactory . |
| 16 | When 1 commented to the hosts of the Parliamentary and Scientific Committee ( under whose auspices 1 went ) on the use of steel for guarding the rings , I was told that the full , true installation ( ’ green field ’ ) cost would have been near to £50 million . |
| 17 | My apologies did little to assuage the situation and I was informed that the federal government had ruled against allowing key production personnel to enlist in the armed forces . |
| 18 | But Cnut was considerably more fortunate in the sources produced within 150 years of his death , for the explosion of literary activity which began shortly after the Norman Conquest , and which was to ensure that no future reign would be as badly documented as those of Cnut and his sons , also cast its light back to his period . |
| 19 | However it has already been challenged by live sheep interests who are arguing that a large proportion of exported animals are sold for further feeding and not direct for slaughter . |
| 20 | Have you been suggesting that the dead girl might have been your father 's mistress ? ’ |
| 21 | ‘ If I read you rightly , ’ said Radulfus , having searched Cadfael 's face , and found it in very grave earnest , ‘ you are saying that the young man was attacked in mistake for a Benedictine brother . ’ |
| 22 | You 're thinking that the gross is round about seven percent . |
| 23 | I think you 're suggesting that the local government would do a lot more if the national government would allow it , and I suspect you 're a Labour member of the Oxfordshire County Council and I think that you would point at the Conservative central government as being , if not deliberately anti-women , then the effect of some of it 's policies seemed to indicate that that 's where it 's heading . |
| 24 | The postponement was a crushing disappointment to NASA engineers who were hoping that a successful flight would restore Congressional confidence in the Agency . |
| 25 | The Empire is crumbling into civil war , Daemons are popping up on all sides , and who 's to say that the Great Enchanter does n't have a hand in it somewhere ? |
| 26 | Need it be a matter of wonder , when we see her capable of such restraint in general , that she should retire within herself and exercise that control we find her continually exerting over all her thoughts and actions the more energetically at a time when she is taught that a stray thought of desire would be impurity and its fruition pollution . |
| 27 | In retrospect it may seem that the trend was already irresistible — the First World War certainly made it so — but who is to say that a positive imperial policy pursued energetically in 1902 or 1912 was inevitably doomed to failure ? |
| 28 | The person you are about to see is probably a rather harassed individual who is hoping that the ideal employee is going to be , as we have mentioned before , the next person to walk through the door . |
| 29 | She was determined that the new course would not bite the dust because of a rearguard action by a couple of old fogies like Maurice Webb and Henry Hedger . |
| 30 | But since she knew that the Czech word for ‘ please ’ was ‘ prosím ’ she was hoping that the polite woman 's parting phrase had been the equivalent of an English ‘ Excuse me , please ’ while she went away to hand her card over to Vendelin Gajdusek . |