Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb base] that [adv] " in BNC.

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1 I accept that , although I gather that even the German Parliament is deeply divided on how much of it and how much of the Government should move from Bonn to Berlin .
2 It is his type that has been projected as a desirable up to the present time , although I feel that recently , Rottweilers in Germany have become slightly lighter in build and longer in the loin , a very workmanlike animal , designed for Schutzhund work .
3 ‘ No , she said not , and although I think that virtually everything she has told us about herself is a pack of lies I do n't think she 's lying about that . ’
4 Outside Cabinet Leon Brittan argued in a speech that the Government must have the right to look at new ideas , although I suspect that both Leon and Geoffrey Howe must have been appalled at the way the issue had been handled .
5 well this people I mean with , with , that I mean that really is more or less the same amount as the other companies have said for er more or less the whole lot , so why the wardrobes are so cheap and yet the , the bed surrounding is so expensive , we do n't know
6 By that I mean that substantially fewer customers have terminated contracts citing reasons of dissatisfaction or failure to deliver .
7 I should , at this point , declare my interest as being associated with Horizon , but it is through this link that I know that not one of the producers involved with BBC productions was consulted in any way during the writing of the book .
8 Well I think we were very lucky at the start that were were just starting up in England and they were actually more into what we were doing than er to the extent that I think that maybe other record companies might have laughed at them and said they 've no hope of surviving but I mean they had the Furies with er Sweet Sixteen and then they had er about six hit singles from Foster and Allen and about six or seven albums and then they went down to Daniel O'Donald which became an enormous success so I think when that happened then all record companies kind of said well maybe there is something here .
9 I 'm more concerned about erm future possibilities , not least the possibility that the , if we fight the next European election under first past the post system then of course there will need to be a further set of boundary changes in the very near future arising from the parliamentary boundary commission proposals and I hope that again that the minister will take the change in in his remarks a little later , to assure the house that this was , because of the time constraints and there are reasons for that that I 'll come to , but because of the time constraints that this was in fact just a one off proposal because its sad that party political considerations that the minister has eluded to , the difficulties that Conservative party had over the Maastricht bill , caused our boundary procedures to be tampered with at all in the U K. At the same time as we 're seeing er a welcome expansion of democratic forms in the rest of the world in erm Eastern and central er Europe , in South Africa for instance we see the erosion of these forms in the United Kingdom .
10 And so I , I think the Americans are , are doing a good job , er but there are many many pitfalls ahead , and , and I hope that now that we 've got more troops there , that we will be er carefully consulted , er the whole time before any er drastic action is taken .
11 Th there are a number of papers , and we 're going to start off this morning er with , when people , just I 've started actually speaking here so that er to allow people time to come into the room and I know that here we are .
12 You know and I know that not everyone will agree with you .
13 Dear Harsnet , he wrote , I am not sure if this will reach you and I know that even if it does you will not reply .
14 He knows and I know that well before the six o'clock bulletin started they found that one of the flats was empty , and they asked where was the guy inside .
15 ‘ But you know and I know that deep down I 'm about as alien to your concept of life as a creature from outer space . ’
16 I know that in every one of your homes there is a JNF Blue Box and I know that wherever it is in your homes it is not gathering dust .
17 I know there are many , and I know that quite a few of you are students in the classes run by the Centre for Continuing Education .
18 And I submit that out of this same background — conversations with Pound — comes that surprising coupling of names with which Yeats ends ‘ To a Young Beauty ’ ( 1918 ) :
19 The discount system has the potential to run us into a substantial amount of trouble and I believe that very few people will be prepared to defend it in a year or two .
20 The test of contempt requires a risk of serious prejudice and I believe that usually the protection of criminal proceedings against such risks should prevail even if this is difficult to reconcile with our obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights .
21 And I find that extremely understandable , but nevertheless we felt it was necessary to say , ‘ Well , you know , it 's not right .
22 They 're not accepted wholly in society and I feel that why the hell should n't they , y'know .
23 Now they are really dangerous and I understand that even today they are responsible for a number of deaths and serious accidents each year among farm workers .
24 And I suspect that even if you replace these people in positions of power you ca n't replace human nature .
25 , but erm , and I notice that quite often the shelves would be half empty , came here , I would stop on the way back from the school the bank and the butcher 's and the paper shop over the road I could come in quarter to nine and I 'm , you know , I , I was done and I said to my Arnold they 're not going to sell much unless they put some money into filling the shelves surely Spa will back them , and he said I keep on telling them that I keep on saying to them if you do n't put the goods there on display people are going to go over the road to Lipton 's and and
26 I 'm very glad to see that there 's quite a lot of nurses here , and I presume that quite a lot of those are women nurses , and I think that this is terribly important , and I think a useful thing with this new service could do is to go out and talk for instance to the meetings of women 's organisations , to old peoples ' clubs in the afternoon , and actually ask people what they would like , and get them talking in a nice informal way , rather than waiting for somebody to let them know what they think , because I do n't think they 're going to get it .
27 We did n't go to the funeral , but me cousin Dora who was Aunt Lucy 's daughter , she got there was er Walter , , Walter and Leonard were in a pram and me cousin Dora went down Lane and wh to the corner of Street and watched the funeral go past up to I 've got vague memories of that they 're not clear but I do know that he took us to watch me dad 's funeral past the corner of Street and I presume that now that it must have gone up Street up to Street street , cos he 's buried at Ryecroft .
28 And I think that instead of sitting round and bitching about them , which you can do , it 's better to try to take more of an interest and make interesting videos , because if you 're a creative person I think you can make creative videos . ’
29 and I think that rather ruined the whole afternoon erm
30 But I do think that the district auditor is beginning to be presented as a bogie man erm , waved in the faces of people in rural areas , as a sort of threat that even if the council does n't want to close your school , it might , and I think that probably is n't a very proper use of the district auditor 's image , nor of his report , and I think perhaps some direct contact with him , er to show what progress we 're making , paragraph by paragraph , and what we think of that report from December ninety-one , probably needs to be made .
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