Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [vb base] [verb] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The background to the situation which I have described is that in December 1990 and January 1991 there had been an uprising in Somalia in the course of which the President , Siad Barre , had been overthrown . |
| 2 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 3 | What I wish to propose is that for this poor and hungry population many of the physiological symptoms of which they complain are also symptoms of chronic hunger . |
| 4 | What I wish to suggest is that filling the structural lacuna makes structured talk without higher-order thought look much less likely . |
| 5 | What I hope to show is that the attacks on the reality and irreducibility of both subjective experience and thought leave one with no contentful conception of the world . |
| 6 | And what I 've asked is that they actually did and not separate it . |
| 7 | What I 've said is that I 'd like to see the existing C P O's become divisional staff at the division that they are working now so that the divisional commander can allow them to stay there holding hands with the new civilian C P O for up to six months if necessary because it then becomes a local decision as to when the when the two have that umbilical cut . |
| 8 | He admitted : ‘ What I 've learned is that I was too complacent going into this competition . |
| 9 | What I 've found is that there 's a lot more complexity and problems in happiness , many more layers , than I 'd imagined . |
| 10 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 11 | So what I want to suggest is that the second two categories I 've mentioned , that 's the vocal channel and the body language channel can actually be very important in communication . |
| 12 | However what I want to emphasize is that Residents ' Association 's case is not does not rely on an inner northern route acting as a an alternative to a western rel route . |
| 13 | Er , what I would like to propose the erm a a that resolution two of course , was put down at the time it had to be put down er , and is clearly going to be affected by , that it happened at the th the financial services in March and what I have suggested is that you might prefer this be a a a second resolution it is or and turn to the to add on the end of that resolution thus urging local churches to through their consultations with district treasurers and finance committee to increase their contributions to the Ministry of Mission Fund in nineteen ninety three in such a way that provincial commi , commitment may be increased by at least five percent over the nineteen ninety two . |
| 14 | What I do stress is that the judge should approach the exercise of the discretion with a predilection to give effect to the child 's wishes on the basis that prima facie that will be in his or her best interests . |
| 15 | What I do mean is that although most women do hope for a happy and loving relationship with their husbands , the attainment of this is not the purpose of marriage . |
| 16 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 17 | WHAT I do know is that people like Havel have been getting a little impatient with those relishing pieces appearing lately in the American press that say , roughly : ‘ Right , you guys over there have had your romantic Ruritanian fun and games with revolution and dancing in the streets . |
| 18 | What I do know is that , faced with cancer , the desire for solitude was somewhat tempered . |
| 19 | What I do know is that we owe a great debt to these doughty fighters of the past in banishing the menace of the Krooms for ever from this green and pleasant land . |
| 20 | What I do know is that The Da completely missed the point , as usual . |
| 21 | What I do know is that whatever Mario says ( ‘ I do n't think he was too unhappy about it ’ ) or Colin thought ( ‘ The atmosphere within the team was the happiest I can remember ’ ) , that was not the way Ronnie saw it . |
| 22 | ‘ What I do know is that the scale of success we could be embarking upon far out-strips anything I experienced at Liverpool . |
| 23 | What I do know is that all you people are here because the Fascists have given the list of your names to our headquarters . ’ |
| 24 | What I do know is that there are thousands and thousands of people out there for whom life is intolerable , roughly ten a day actually succeed in killing themselves , how many more have a go we do n't know . |
| 25 | " I do n't pretend that medical science has yet found a method of treating cholera that 's quite satisfactory , I do n't say there is n't room for improvement , ladies and gentlemen … but what I do say is that it 's the duty of a member of the medical profession to use the best available treatment known and accepted by his fellow physicians ! |
| 26 | What I do understand is that if the master 's not home for the party tomorrow , the mistress wo n't be pleased — and that 's putting it mildly . |
| 27 | What I do recall is that we drank beer which Eliot , like George Saintsbury , regarded as having certain virtues , especially at lunch-time , which wine did not possess . |