Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] be [adv] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think I should react more favourably to an attitude of confidence and trust … than to an attitude of suspicion that I am inherently extravagant and require continual supervision , ’ wrote one in 1952 , showing his misunderstanding of the decentralising potential of financial controls . |
| 2 | She knows that I am well aware that the 20 complaints referred to in that evidence were ‘ unsubstantiated and had not even materialised , ’ since I have covered her case in detail since the beginning . |
| 3 | Because I feel strongly that I am much more than that … perhaps many more nameless things , but valuable to me nonetheless . |
| 4 | You may think that I am too harsh and write with lack of sympathy for the children , expecting them to struggle with concepts which cause greater minds a great deal of thought . |
| 5 | You see although I wear the German uniform , you might really say that I am more neutral than anything else . |
| 6 | It 's just that I am so evil and perverted and encrusted with slime that it 's rather difficult for me to remember the fact . ’ |
| 7 | Nobody can do anything , Doctor Sparrow does not answer , he refuses to listen , he gave me no reassurance , but I know , I know that I am seriously ill and there is no one here except my mother , and who is to look after her , Dorothea ? |
| 8 | I am glad that the hon. Gentleman says that I am very efficient because that is what we in the Department of Social Security strive to be . |
| 9 | Tell him that I am very sorry but I can not make exceptions . |
| 10 | As there is already a stop in approximately the location you describe I regret that I am still unclear as to what your request comprises . |
| 11 | The only difference between what Daniel had to endure and what my children have endured is that I am still alive and have plucked up the courage to divorce my husband . |
| 12 | An honourable offer from Covent Garden or Glyndebourne for a worthy artistic venture is acceptable , but ‘ if I have a feeling that someone 's dreaming of going to a small provincial European theatre because they 're offered 1,000 dollars and they think it 's more important than a whole season at the Kirov , I am so angry and upset that I am absolutely confident when I say do n't come back . |
| 13 | My Lord it is since that erm because , as you mention that er because of all the delay , that I am quite sure that positively intended erm I lost large sums of paying my solicitors , solicitors as well as a surveyor and therefore I attempted to er , er to recoup that |
| 14 | Otaka has clearly had a most inspiring influence on the BBC Welsh , so much so that I am quite convinced that anyone coming to this excellent new recording blindfolded would never guess its provenance . |
| 15 | I always feel that I am as good as anyone else . |
| 16 | Lil would be the first to say — and Nick would back her up that I am never happier than when I 'm banging my head against a wall . |
| 17 | The most important duty that I owe you , the reader , is that I be absolutely honest and candid , and therefore , although I have no doubt that the growers will not like me for saying so , I suggest that unless you aspire to the show bench , or base your gardening on taking chances , you should not heed the blandishments but look instead for the shortcomings . |
| 18 | I 'm on a diet but I find I 'm so hungry all the time that I 'm just miserable and ca n't concentrate on anything . |
| 19 | I know you feel you 're justified , that I 'm little better than a fortune-hunter . |
| 20 | ‘ You 'll see that I 'm more useful than a real d'Urberville . |
| 21 | You 've helped me so much in the past , and now that I 'm more helpless than ever , you 're going away ! ’ |
| 22 | I 've become something of a connoisseur now that I 'm more housebound than of old . |
| 23 | ‘ Shall we say that I 'm less uncertain than I was at the beginning . ’ |
| 24 | Okay , so trial and error and involved with trial and error is something that I 'm almost certain that Assa and David are going to er , |
| 25 | Er , firstly that I 'm too fast and and er a number of people have said this to me so er and it 's true so I do n't wish to elaborate further on that . |
| 26 | And what makes me admit that I 'm as hapless as the biography to the left suggests ? |
| 27 | When that heroin is in my blood And that blood is in my head Thank God that I 'm as good as dead . |
| 28 | ‘ Miss Havisham , ’ I said , ‘ I must tell you that I 'm as unhappy as you ever wanted me to be . |
| 29 | Let me finish in a very positive note in saying that I 'm as concerned as the speaker to which I reply that that day will be reached and reached soon , please God , when we can sit down together and share fully in the sacrament of the lord 's supper . |
| 30 | The smoke and fog seem to get on my lungs , but apart from that I 'm as fit as Harry now . ’ |