Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] [is] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , John Fowles ( or a version of him ) intrudes famously — or notoriously — into chapter thirteen to discuss his tactics and emphasize that ‘ this story I am telling is all imagination . |
| 2 | What I am suggesting is that introspective reports , while often providing helpful qualitative information , can never be reliable enough to use as quantitative data defining the presence or absence of conscious awareness . |
| 3 | So the question I am wondering is this : does the person Albie owed money to — the man behind Vinnie Dirkin — know who it was that killed him ? |
| 4 | The point I am making is that pedagogic research calls for the independent appraisal of ideas as a precondition to their application . |
| 5 | What I am saying is that |
| 6 | What I am saying is this . |
| 7 | Yeah , but what I 'm saying is that , yeah , but what I 'm saying is when the parent comes to you and says well the primary school said they were you can say well well yes but by by our standards and our assessment when they arrived here |
| 8 | teacher I 'm not going to argue that but what I 'm saying is that in this report I do n't think that 's necessarily the appropriate format . |
| 9 | A and all I 'm saying is that and I rest my case |
| 10 | I did n't show you the , the grade and the stage curves because we all know what they look like but what I 'm saying is that by doing the count provides us with additional information on this group of patients . |
| 11 | And what I 'm saying is that |
| 12 | Now there 's another thing questions what I 'm saying is that 's something to take away with you , or perhaps you wo n't get the chance er try now er . |
| 13 | Well that , that 's what I 'm saying is that , I think what we have to start doing and I 'm not suggesting you 're not doing , but I just want to talk about this in , before we practically kick off on the course proper , I think what , I mean that comes off , and then the oil starts dripping out of it , and the minute the oil starts dripping out , then we become quite a good artist are n't we ? |
| 14 | It 's not completely true , what I 'm saying is that , and then what happens of course , you get over to the hub with , with , with the sales virgins who 've just joined the company |
| 15 | Yeah but what I 'm saying is that 's my week up the spout like , in n it ? |
| 16 | ‘ What I 'm saying is this . |
| 17 | So what I 'm saying is this will appropriate for year seven , eight , nine and ten |
| 18 | ‘ What I 'm saying is this : there are a handful of your new designs that I think are too special to be included in the general collection . ’ |
| 19 | What I 'm saying is this . |
| 20 | ‘ What I 'm saying is this … ’ |
| 21 | But what I 'm saying is some schools they might be here seventy five days out of a hundred but for twenty of those |
| 22 | No , what I 'm saying is some schools have lost it in year eleven as well . |
| 23 | Because the the nettle I 'm grasping is this ah it is said by the , both of them , that it was you who had what they call a long barrelled gun , it must be a shotgun . |
| 24 | but the point I 'm making is that up to the end of giving you advice it is perfectly free there is no charge on you whatsoever . |
| 25 | Look s s seriously the point the point I 'm making is that for for most jobs of an average sort of size , what happens under A C E scale fees as I understand it , if I 'm wrong I 'm I stand corrected . |
| 26 | The point I 'm making is that in fact erm a woman 's reproductive system discriminates actively . |
| 27 | Erm but the the point I 'm making is that existing figures erm for the existing sorry the figures for the existing structure plan indicate that there 's been an overshoot on agreed figures . |
| 28 | The serious point I 'm making is that , too often , in schools , the kind of questions are focused on just what is least interesting , not the , people 's attitude to witches , or to their bodies , or their attitudes to women , to children , all these things which are now considered part of the historian 's province , but instead we get saddled with the Treaty of Uncia Scolesi and the Repeal of the Corn Laws , and this is worrying . |
| 29 | But the , the link between sex and reproduction is always likely to be more critical to a woman So , so , so you see th th the point I 'm making is these insights seem to me to be to have a kind of relevance to er women 's experience of sex that is some ways greater than it is to male males can you know once they 've done their fertilizing work , they 're , they 're really through as far as erm as far as biology is concerned , not perhaps as far as social . |
| 30 | Now what I 'm wondering is this : instead of thinking that staying put is natural , and then having to introduce a force of gravity — which then mysteriously pulls on everything to make them behave in the same way — why not start out by saying that falling is the natural thing to do ! |