Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] i [verb] it [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is too easy to dwell on the environmental down-side of the industry and I believe it is about time we brought home to people the improvements we bring to their life-style . |
| 2 | He said : ‘ Herbie is a dangerous , up-and-coming boxer and I think it 's a fight the public would really go for . |
| 3 | Best said : ‘ I can see the thinking but I think it 's stupid . |
| 4 | Er , it 's not my cup of tea but I think it 's looking alright . |
| 5 | And a very dangerous conspiracy since I suspect it 's connected with the secret project I was controlling alone . |
| 6 | I 'm more satisfied in my mind when I know it 's clean . |
| 7 | The taxpayer , assuming the validity of the statute as I believe it is entitled to do , considers itself obligated to pay . |
| 8 | ‘ The taxpayer , assuming the validity of the statute as I believe it is entitled to do , considers itself obligated to pay . |
| 9 | The taxpayer , assuming the validity of the statute as I believe it is entitled to do , considers itself obligated to pay . |
| 10 | And then later on , oh and then she was going to see room bookings and try to find me another dining hall cos I said it 's pretty late notice , and she said oh no , it 's a week and I thought well I had booked it two months ago . |
| 11 | With difficulty , but I think it is fair to say as well it has got great compensations , because if you build walls , if you 're hiding , if you 're pretending , if you 're always subscribing parents and stopping them from coming in you make problems ; parents worry and suspect that there are problems behind those closed doors , and I think this is why we have established fifteen different parent teacher groups which meet regularly in different parts of Sussex , from Seaford to Shoreham , to Hove , to Brighton , and in small groups of ten/fifteen/twenty they 'll sit down with a teacher and they do n't just do fund raising they thrash out the different aspects of their children 's education and then they come in and meet in a main committee and I think it is this involvement that enables the parents and the teachers to work very closely together . |
| 12 | ‘ The situation is now that if he works hard and shows the right attitude and I think it is right , then last week will be forgotten and he will go in the side . ’ |
| 13 | Actually , I sent Felicity to Summerhill because I saw this awfully exciting film called The Alamo , starring John Wayne , whom I adore , and he makes this absolutely glorious speech in it which goes ‘ Freedom , I like the sound of the word ’ , actually it 's ‘ Republic ’ he says , I know that because it was on the television last week , but I 've always heard it as ‘ Freedom ’ and I read that A S O'Neill positively breathed Freedom , as indeed do all the Irish , I find , and one has to have pots of money to go there , which gives one — what 's the word ? — sachet , which you do absolutely need to get into Society these days , and Felicity ( her name means Freedom , too , from the Latin , you know ) was frightfully keen to go , and does n't the name simply drip June in , say , the Cotswolds , and Felicity says there are teachers there with nothing to do at all , so you can tell the staff must be tip-top — I mean , what luxury ! spare staff ! — and Felicity 's always been such a tearaway and I know it 's jolly hard but I do think one needs Discipline to get one 's Freedom , I 've always had it , and Republics too , and now I gather she 's been on television , and Felicity was absolutely swearing by the school or something , Angela says , and where is it — somewhere pretty — she goes by train … |
| 14 | You could argue that some of them work outside the home because they have to , for financial reasons , but I think it 's indisputable that a ever-growing number want to work outside the home and I think it 's very important that they should be allowed the scope to do so . |
| 15 | It may well be a social skill but I think it 's |
| 16 | I think this is an extremely complicated er issue but I think it 's on that needs to be looked at consistently across North Yorkshire . |
| 17 | I , I , I thought it was a great pity because I mean it 's er a major thing upsetting |
| 18 | Can I sorry could I could I take obviously take some question people wish to ask a question because I think it 's important that before people start drifting away we actually bring the meeting to some conclusion and determine where we 're gon na go with the meeting once it 's actually passed . |
| 19 | Let me tell you how I see this whole difficult question because I think it is interesting . |
| 20 | So I look at my watch and I see it 's nearly midnight . |
| 21 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 22 | Her sister thinks of this pain all day and night and says it is the worst part and I think it is , worse even than how it is to end . |
| 23 | I think that 's the first part and I think it 's ready to go on there , erm |
| 24 | I am Mrs who 's sort of the secretary and books , does the booking for the hall , he could n't get that , anyway it occurred to me afterwards it must of been the grandmother of that girl that bought the erm , cos he kept on talking a Michelle and that 's the girl that bought our suite and I reckon it 's her child 's birthday party , she said erm you know my , you know my son-in-law , I said do I ? |
| 25 | And then that other was a member of parliament and I knew it 's erm I knew he , I think it was erm oh I can see him stood up there . |
| 26 | It 's a small cottage and I think it 's very pretty . |
| 27 | It 's a conscious decision and I think it 's important that men understand a woman who is offering an alternative lifestyle . |
| 28 | But once I have the thing and make it available , and say here is the gift that I promised it 's yours , it 's available , then , all you have to do is come and take it . |
| 29 | Can , can we leave that word alone for for a moment cos I think it 's a bit of red herring er , to some degree . |
| 30 | I 'm sure some of you last year or least last week or even last month , read about the black sack that had all the wonderful jewels in it that came into a charity shop and I think it 's a lesson for us all is n't it , not not to miss anything in a black sack , Jacqui . |