Example sentences of "be the [noun] that i [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , see these are the ones that I sent in and I did n't think they would , they would agree with because they were duplicates unless they found the original . |
| 2 | These are the ones that I saw on the |
| 3 | Looking at the report and using the present criteria for increase in pensions and these are the figures that I did n't produce but er they look pretty bleak as I said because what the pensions can expect next year will be eighty four P for single pensioners and one twenty eight in that area for a couple and then we had look at we have some concern of what happened yesterday in a statement by the Chancellor of the Exchequer who said he is going to extend V A T and also it has now been that instead of putting on half of it in nineteen ninety four he put the full pile at seventeen and a half percent in nineteen ninety four because what was being saved is that if he 's leave the other half to nineteen ninety five it 'll be round near the elections and er there could be some difficulty . |
| 4 | So bleak are the prospects that I heard one media journalist muttering that the ITC ought not to be advertising the franchise at all . |
| 5 | Yes , if you look at it in a certain light , as those philosophers are apt to who go on to say that there must ( 286 ) have been more than the sentence in my mind for it to be the case that I meant such and such . |
| 6 | ‘ I suppose it could be the fact that I backed Double Dutch at 10-1 as a saver simply because I think she 's good value and certainly not because there 's anything wrong with my horse , ’ Ramsden said . |
| 7 | Those were the words that I had written for Antoinette ! |
| 8 | Where is the proof that I lurked in a church and killed Mandeville 's servant with a crossbow bolt ? |
| 9 | But very often I think tabloid journalism is interesting in terms of language because it 's very punchy it 's succinct because i i in some of our terms you might find people into a three minute reader and a thirty minute reader because in attention span and intellectual capacity are quite different but to actually condense something into meaningful short bursts , even if they are politically biased actually requires a certain amount of skill I would suspect the clarity index which I ca n't find is the process that I mentioned the other night where you take erm some people call it the fog index a correct me if I 'm wrong in my figures , but I think it 's a piece of something like two hundred or three hundred words you count the number of suc erm colons and full stops or is it only full stops ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | That is the undertaking that I gave to the Select Committee . |
| 12 | I am aware that the Ramblers Association has said that , but there are 100 such crossings on the east coast main line , which is the example that I gave . |
| 13 | This is the example that I wanted to quote in erm , in er , answer to er , the question you asked me earlier . |
| 14 | that 's the way that I saw it . |
| 15 | the er children 's television show they they occasionally show a Newfoundland pulling a boat , well now that 's the film that I made about ten years ago and this Newfoundland pulled in the boat . |
| 16 | But that 's what the flat machines do and that 's the machine that I invested in , very expensive , very versatile , they also knit , today they will also knit the Arran stitching . |
| 17 | But it 's still the same , but it 's the pains that I got the last time that 's gon it 's like sharp pains that 's going round about , just the insides of the nipple . |
| 18 | Oh well here 's the college that I saw |
| 19 | that Robert 's already gone over , but I actually got the impression that erm I that you did n't feel relaxed in what you were doing , you knew what you were talking about but erm you did n't feel relaxed and if I 'd 've been your customer then I , I certainly would n't have felt relaxed either and and that 's the impression that I got which was the completely opposite of Robert . |
| 20 | It was the thought that I liked . |
| 21 | Lying in bed , looking at the stiff poses in the pictures , I began to want to see the living reality — and the only reality to begin with for me was the singing that I heard through my sickroom window . |
| 22 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 23 | Such was the shock that I walked off the site in a state of mental turmoil after all the farewells at the season 's end . |
| 24 | ‘ You 'll never get that ’ was the response that I got , ‘ You had better start with us ’ . |
| 25 | After supper I was shown to a tiny bedroom overlooking and adjoining the graveyard ; so profound was the silence that I felt part of it . |
| 26 | That was the point that I heard him make in Brighton . |
| 27 | It was the feeling that I had survived , and that maybe , with help , I was going to continue to survive . |
| 28 | That was the thing that I found exciting about the script . |
| 29 | I would say the thing that kept me sane during that period was the fact that I had a part time job , and erm we were able to pay for some home help . |
| 30 | One of the biggest challenges was the fact that I had to work quite direct , once the colour was put on it was incredibly difficult to lift off completely and so I could afford to make very few mistakes . |