Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i be " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I should make it clear that I am drawing on notions of an idealised business environment when I refer to unambiguous communication being the motive power which occasions accountability . |
| 2 | When I say ‘ myths ’ it should now be clear that I am not using the term ‘ myth ’ in any pejorative sense but am referring to the cultural assumptions existing in the world of work . |
| 3 | Referring to his decision to resign from the Cabinet over the Westland affair in January 1986 , he says : ‘ I made a statement that day making it clear that I was going to continue in active politics in any role the Conservative Party wanted . |
| 4 | And they made it clear that I was extremely fortunate to be doing the job I do . |
| 5 | But it instantly became clear that I was n't speaking just for myself . ’ |
| 6 | On Jerba I had made it clear that I was not in the market for anything and they left me alone . |
| 7 | It soon became clear that I was not the only moth cruising Karen 's flame . |
| 8 | But it seems clear that I was diverting the feeling of cold , which pertains to the body , away from the physical and into the psychological realm , where alone I believed myself to exist . |
| 9 | And then , damn me , it was clear that I was sitting on someone ! |
| 10 | ‘ I thought it over again and I have decided there must be an announcement , because it would indicate the merits of the matter and make it perfectly clear that I was in the right . ’ |
| 11 | I would make it clear that I was seeking to build upon a solid platform of achievement — whether true or not — with gradual developments that can be understood and accepted from the outset . |
| 12 | ‘ But I made it quite clear that I was n't prepared to share a bedroom with you ! ’ she retorted angrily . |
| 13 | With hindsight , it 's clear that I was too single-minded about racing , too immersed , and that if I 'd paced myself better the joy would have lasted much longer . ’ |
| 14 | I wore the shantung tea-gown and a gold circlet round my forehead to make it clear that I 'm the Queen . |
| 15 | Oh I see , yes , yes , I , huh , yes I would do , I , I , I would say in quite definitely that these words are inspired by such a such artist and , make it quite clear that I 'm a writer and not a , I , I , I do n't study art or I just do n't understand science and painting and , and its my responses to that , yes . |
| 16 | ‘ Listen , I do n't know what you 're up to now , but let me make it quite clear that I 'm only prepared to put up with you for the sake of the station and my job . |
| 17 | Our recruitment to English ( and it is with English that I am in this paper principally concerned ) was again untypical . |
| 18 | And let's face it , I am more British than I am Kenyan . |
| 19 | He would n't be any more interested than I am . ’ |
| 20 | My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused confused to be attracted by , in effect , my own annihilation . |
| 21 | Professionally , if I felt there was a risk I should want to know that I was clear so I was certain there was no danger of me passing anything on to a patient or a future partner . |
| 22 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 23 | However , I am afraid that I am simply unable to attend . |
| 24 | I was afraid that I was doing something wrong . |
| 25 | ‘ I was also afraid that I was n't going to be fed properly . |
| 26 | Now Mrs Archer was a very good woman in her way but I 'm afraid that I was never one of her favourites because I was so slow to catch on , particularly in mathematics . |
| 27 | I was afraid that I was lost in the snow . ’ |
| 28 | I guessed you were from the first , and the fact that you could quite happily and openly go away with him for a weekend everyone would know about confirmed that I was right . |
| 29 | Without noticing it , while I was looking the other way , I had become old ; so old that I was an ‘ old lady ’ , known as such at the village school . |
| 30 | ‘ I found collecting watercolours so rewarding and interesting that I 'm slowly turning my hobby into a part-time business , ’ she says . |