Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] be [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only thing I do know is that something must be done to get her away from here … anywhere . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 4 | It has to be possible to dream and speak the unthinkable , for the only thing that we do know is that we shall not know what tomorrow 's world will be like . |
| 5 | What we do know is that they can have extremely unpleasant effects . |
| 6 | What we do know is that they simply say it 's too far round er the diversion in distance terms is too long . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | What you do know is that it has caused you considerable hurt and pain . |
| 10 | All I do know is that it truly happened . ’ |
| 11 | All I do know is that it seems someone here does believe that they still have an influence . ’ |
| 12 | What we do know is that it is impossible to write any human being off as permanently damaged . |
| 13 | ‘ What we do know is that he is delirious but constantly conscious . |
| 14 | ‘ The one thing I do know is that he will be at the inquest . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The one thing I do know is that he will be at the inquest into the death of L/Cpl Edwards . |
| 16 | He 's obviously an unfortunate athlete like Steve Cram , but the one thing I do know is that he is the best friend any vet could have ! |
| 17 | I do n't know what my future style will be but the one thing I do know is that I will keep on changing . ’ |
| 18 | What we do know is that his full conversion to Christianity released in him a literary flow which only ceased with death . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It seems to me that all of us in this chamber have at one time or another , wanted to actually spend money erm it comes programme of committees , I do n't think it 's behoved upon me at the moment to transgress on what programme committees are actually er but to predict exactly where they will want their expenditure to go but I do know is that there is a huge backlog of member generated aspirations in terms of the environmental improvements , traffic calming facilities , particulary which I suspect were actually generated mildly in excess of the figures which we have before us tonight which is why we clearly leave open that further bids against capital can be made in the course of the next three years , erm which will be assessed against the overall financial position of the council and I think the council much more than that . |
| 21 | What she did know was that she never wanted to go away again . |
| 22 | All she did know was that she had n't seen the last of him by a long chalk ! |
| 23 | What I did know was that I did n't want to grow up , and my diary records that I confessed as much — when pressed to my housemistress . |
| 24 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 25 | What I did know was that I discerned in the detail the cynical hand of the practising hack . |
| 26 | What she did know was that he lived with his mother and two brothers , and that after the war he would go back to work in an insurance office . |
| 27 | What , however , a large number of studies of the effects of regulation do show is that there are frequently unintended consequences of regulation which impose a cost on society that must be weighed against the expected benefits of the regulation . |
| 28 | The one thing the serfs did understand was that they were not yet free . |
| 29 | She did n't quite , but what she did understand was that she hated this woman , and the thought momentarily came to her that that man would n't surely have been as bad as this mean-faced nun . |
| 30 | What the results do indicate is that we must be prepared to consider radically new views of reality without placing locality in a central position . |