Example sentences of "[pers pn] [that] there [be] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , I do n't see but it does n't seem to me that there 's anything intrinsically better about Beethoven than Madonna . |
| 2 | However , it seems to me that there is something a little perverse in leaving me your notes on the making of the Big Glass when you must have known perfectly well that they contained material I would be certain to find offensive . |
| 3 | It seems to me that there is something finally maudlin and trivial about seeing neurosis as Nemesis . ’ |
| 4 | It seems that the work I do takes so much of what is essential in me that there is nothing left . |
| 5 | ‘ From the word go , ’ she says , ‘ my father impressed on me that there is nothing finer than to beat someone playing well . ’ |
| 6 | So it seems to me that there is nothing new there is no further justification and er on those grounds alone there is no reason to have this policy . |
| 7 | He reminded me that there were plenty in his early lifetime . |
| 8 | I do n't remember his words now and it would be ethically wrong for me to make them up , but he began to tell me that there was something in my lung . |
| 9 | It was left to a clinical teacher to absorb this stress , and to persuade me that there was nothing to gain from ‘ abandoning the cause ’ . |
| 10 | She told me that there was nothing to be said for death , nothing in mitigation : it was extinction , the end . |
| 11 | Even the fact that disappointed old toss-pots — unable to grapple with the idea that people once enjoyed themselves without getting drunk , vomiting and hitting one another — still react to the Sixties , as a notion , with comical indignation has never convinced me that there was anything special about that time . |
| 12 | It is time he responded and paid compensation to those farmers , and allowed them to get on with earning their livelihood , instead of telling them that there is nothing for them from the Ministry of Agriculture . |
| 13 | Any broadcaster will tell you that there is something different and better about a live ‘ performance ’ . |
| 14 | And I can tell you that there is something in Cave 's music , something black and unnameable , that 's becoming an increasingly rare commodity in modern rock . |
| 15 | → Just to set your mind at rest , Phil , I 'll start by telling you that there is nothing wrong with your equipment ; the situation is definitely down to other factors . |
| 16 | I can assure you that there is nothing sub-standard or left out of a home built machine . |
| 17 | Orton , on the other hand , told him that there was nothing to feel guilty about in a homosexual relationship . |
| 18 | Soon he had begun to convince her that there was something wrong with her , that she was n't normal . |
| 19 | Her doctor had told her that there was nothing he could do for this problem , so she decided on private treatment from a doctor that a friend recommended . |
| 20 | ‘ Something awful 's in the closet , ’ she 'd sobbed to Grams , and Grams had first held her and comforted her , then opened the door to show her that there was nothing inside but clothing . |
| 21 | Yet yesterday it had n't occurred to her that there was anything wrong with such a sound coming from the Essoldo Cinema box-office . |
| 22 | Cos we took it that there was somebody probably take it that there 's somebody inside the flat . |
| 23 | Or is it that there are none so blind as those who will not see ? |
| 24 | Cos we took it that there was somebody probably take it that there 's somebody inside the flat . |
| 25 | The narcissistic and windy urbanity of Freedburg and Kosuth means that they fail to convince us that there is something rotten in the United States . |
| 26 | Indeed , common sense must tell us that there is something paradoxical about setting up primary classrooms in which ‘ busyness ’ , diversity , movement and activity are counted as virtues if within these classrooms children are mainly engaged in solitary activities requiring concentration . |
| 27 | Thus the examples of ( 9 ) are acceptable : ( 9 ) your behaviour was barbaric this device is expensive his plan was inspired but impractical Where a prenominal adjective fits equally well with either relationship — ascriptive or associative — to its noun , we find that its occurrence in predicative position is acceptable , but only provided that the relation is taken as being ascriptive ; thus ( 10 ) mentions an individual who either has Greek nationality ( but the nature and region of the business which he or she deals with remain unspecified ) , or is a person who handles affairs connected with Greece ( but who may well be of some quite different nationality , Belgian for example ) ; ( 11 ) however unambiguously tells us that there is someone who falls into the former category : ( 10 ) the Greek representative ( 11 ) the representative is Greek |
| 28 | I 've already told you he knew the minute he saw us that there was something wrong — ’ |
| 29 | The Warden pointed out the most likely spot for short-eared owls on the hunt for stranded voles , told us that there were plenty of field fare about , and said it was a good year for ruff . |