Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] be [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I confirmed in answer to the question to which the hon. Gentleman has referred was that we had put in place measures to deal with the problems arising from repossession . |
| 2 | what he has said is that he , it 's a matter for myself to talk to whoever I wish , and that he respects my judgement in these matters , er according to the joint statement issued Mr Reynolds briefed him on his discussions with me on that on that |
| 3 | In a sense I suppose , er what DeKlerk 's government has demonstrated is that they are trying as it were to be impartial and not allow political considerations to influence their judgement about whether Mrs Mandela should go on trial . |
| 4 | That sounds a lot heavier than it really is , because what our testing has proved is that you are not psychotic in any orthodox way . |
| 5 | And what has happened is that they have done your one extra teacher and the extra books bit and they 're finishing up effectively going into liquidation . |
| 6 | ‘ What has happened is that we have been clawed back from the disastrous level of whitefish we started at to a position in line with the top end of scientific advice . ’ |
| 7 | It is not enough to assume that all that has happened is that we no longer believe in hell , and that mutes , carrying black ostrich plumes , are out of favour . |
| 8 | All that has happened is that I met Hugo at a party and came to understand that , as well as having friend and spouse , a woman needs the excitement of a lover from time to time : a re-basing , as it were , in the physical : the reincarnation of the carnal self in a body which gets , over the years , far too controlled by spirit and mind . |
| 9 | The problem SAVE faced was that it had been so disfigured by later alterations that many people doubted it was of sufficient interest to merit saving . |
| 10 | The way that they get involved is that they try to back up some of the school teaching in the sixth form chemistry . |
| 11 | Now then all we 're doing , what we should have done is that we should have had an opening balance at the beginni or the end of December when the di information was first struck . |
| 12 | What he should not have said is that he was pleased to join Blackburn 'cos they were going places , implying he did n't think Leeds were going to have any more success . |
| 13 | Erm in t the second most important criterion I would have thought is that it needs to be on a public transport corridor . |
| 14 | Now the son , Paul , would replace this patriarch merchant , about whom the kindest words an outsider might have offered were that he had an ability to survive and prosper and stay as far away from conflict as possible . |
| 15 | If it did n't come off , the worst thing that could have happened is that it would have taken a few years to move him out . ’ |
| 16 | But the point you seem to have missed is that I do n't know the lines . ’ |
| 17 | What seems to have happened is that they have internalised the negative images that are attributed to black people and do not feel that they should identify with them . |
| 18 | What I should 've realized was that we 're still filling in the form |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | No what we said was that if you were interested to see if two variables are associated , this is for a pi squared you might look at sex differences , men and women , and smoking or non-smoking now if they were associated what we 've said is that you might for example ex in fact women 'll probably smoke more than men . |
| 21 | The story I 've got is that he was forced out because Ron Barron was threatening to prosecute him for fraud . ’ |
| 22 | Well I mean the arguments I 've had is that they 're not . |
| 23 | The suggestion I 've had is that we have got held in the budgets erm land acquisition , I mean it may be that we actually pool this the , the new land acquisition after the centenary , which might be erm a way of recognizing the centenary of the , of the parish council . |
| 24 | And what I 've asked is that they actually did and not separate it . |
| 25 | Utterly different from that silly , crushy feeling she had had for Tom before , when all that had happened was that she had felt miserably self-conscious and tongue-tied in his presence . |
| 26 | Well er we , we 've taken a , a , a policy view over the years because the group has a number of er very attractive er products and , and , and , and shareholders have frequently asked if was possible erm , to have concessions in all sorts of areas and the view we 've taken is that it involves a , a , a , a , a great deal of administration and that our real job is to er increase the profits of the business er , a as well as we can and then to pay dividends to the shareholders erm who will er , er , then use that money er , hopefully to buy a good number of our products . |
| 27 | All she had learned was that he was a man whose wife thought him the apple of her eye and who had tastes in Italian painting that were remarkably similar to her own . |
| 28 | He admitted : ‘ What I 've learned is that I was too complacent going into this competition . |
| 29 | What Peano had suggested was that it might be possible , not to take the simple ideas with which people had hitherto operated in mathematics as ultimate , but to derive them from something simpler still . |
| 30 | The reason as we have seen is that it succeeds in employing more information than any alternative system . |