Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps I am hoping that temper will sustain you through this ordeal . |
| 2 | By saying this , I am accepting that Geraldine herself may well have engineered the engagement . |
| 3 | In short , although it is an oversimplification , I am suggesting that workers develop solidarity , or a bounded culture and protect their own boundaries as a group in order that their primitive fears can be allayed . |
| 4 | ‘ I in no way wish you to think that I am suggesting that delays and loss of documents should be treated lightly , but I would like to put forward the view that it was not within the power of my client to remedy the situation they took over from an authority since re-organised under Section 5c of the Reorganisation of Ancillary Services ( Domestic ) Act . |
| 5 | ‘ I am dumbfounded that Ferguson tells me I could n't have spoken to Edwards , but the person I feel really sorry for is Gary Bull . |
| 6 | Be assured however that if I can in any manner contribute to the success of your efforts , either by the proposal of questions for discussion , or subjects for Papers or giving my opinions on any part of the Veterinary Art which you may think proper to investigate I shall at all times feel myself honored by the request , & I am persuaded that Mr Sewell will be most happy to ( ? add ) his exertions in any way congenial to your wishes . |
| 7 | True , this is on one of those detested and expensive 0898 numbers but I am assures that Directus keep the message as succinct as possible and that is rare for a call to last more than a minute . |
| 8 | I am informed that Calderdale tells us that about 11 per cent . |
| 9 | I am advised that doctors at the Queen Elizabeth II hospital have confirmed that Carley could not have been transferred when the hospital test results showed that she had meningitis and the test results were available within one hour of Carley 's admission . |
| 10 | I am advised that Dyfed is likely to reject the application and maintain its view of the extent of the IDO as presented in its High Court case . |
| 11 | I am saying that Lord Justice Woolf , who produced an authoritative report on prison riots and the improvement of prison conditions — admittedly , a report that does not recommend the one thing that the Home Secretary has chosen to do , but a report which the Home Secretary wrongly described as comprehensive — draws attention time after time to the simple fact that all prisons that rioted in 1990 and were the subject of the inquiry were so overcrowded that many of the proper duties that prisons should perform were not being and could not be performed . |
| 12 | This is really the heart of my thesis ; the eighteenth-century philosophers said that true men differed from sub-men because they were rational philosophers rather than poets ; the nineteenth-century positivists said that true men differed from sub-men because they were scientists rather than superstitious believers in magic ; I am saying that men are men and not non-men because they have created artistic imagination which is bound up with the use of language and other forms of patterned but arbitrary expression , e.g. dancing and music . |
| 13 | We can pick over whether the peak age is 15 or 18 , but I am saying that crime has doubled . |
| 14 | I am arguing that schools must respond more positively ; as Hargreaves ( 1984 ) states : |
| 15 | I am told that Reed will regenerate the hype on Madonna 's Sex ( Mandarin ) for a mass-market edition . |
| 16 | I am told that Piper were so glad to land this important order that they only charged an additional £5 per aircraft for the modification . |
| 17 | And , speaking of England : ‘ I am surpised that Neil Back has been omitted from the squad because he is an outstanding player . |
| 18 | To devise policies that directly lead to more positive and imaginative approaches , I am proposing that schools need to focus on two particular strands of educational research : first , the research that has been developed in relation to ‘ effective schools ’ , and second , the principles that underpin ‘ The Whole-School Approach to Special Educational Needs ’ . |
| 19 | the first sheets er and in the meantime , I mean I 'm hoping that Roger and Norman and Dave are at least putting something together , |
| 20 | I 'm hoping that Wendy 's going to be |
| 21 | So as a result to that , there , there erm , there is going to be a public meeting on the tenth September , which is actually organised by the Labour party , erm , but obviously the who thing very worried about the attendance at that , erm the , have , had to organise it very quickly because he wants to get it in before the sixteenth , we 'll still trying to get erm a National speaker , I 'm hoping that Julie from the er , eh National Help Federation will be able to come , but she 's on holiday till Monday erm , I do n't . |
| 22 | Er , so there was a cost to the County Council , but I 'm assuming that members would support stepping in , in these circumstances . |
| 23 | I 'm assuming that David 's suggested that |
| 24 | I 'm determined that Constance wo n't fall into the same trap . ’ |
| 25 | I 'm determined that Constance will be given a chance . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm told that Edwin Garland was a close friend of your late husband . ’ |
| 27 | I came as a foreigner and I 'm told that Suffolk people were stand-offish , difficult to get to know and you 'd be a foreigner for years . |
| 28 | I 'm told that Brian Summers put up some money to get the company started and now has quite a significant slice of the Supersight action . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm told that Princess Margaret , too , was interested in your jewellery , is that right ? |
| 30 | I 'm told that Reading is a different place now . |