Example sentences of "[coord] i [am/are] happy [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have bought Today 's Horse since the beginning and I am happy to say that it is getting better and better — something which can not always be said for the other horsy magazines , which are often repetitive and patronising . |
| 2 | To give the engineers a better appreciation of this aspect I encouraged them to learn to fly up to private pilot standard and I am happy to say this was approached by many of them with considerable enthusiasm . |
| 3 | In each case I pressed the national authorities concerned to allow me to send a UK ‘ observer ’ to their investigation and I am happy to say that our request was agreed to on each occasion . |
| 4 | I should like to know whether the Opposition welcome the reduction of that £0.5 billion burden on British employers or taxpayers or whether they regret it and I am happy to give way now to the hon. Member for Sedgefield if he will answer that question . |
| 5 | And I am happy to name the jackass . |
| 6 | I am not expensive , and I am happy to take only 20,000 francs a month . |
| 7 | ‘ They have asked me to do what I can to help and I am happy to do so . ’ |
| 8 | I can bear to say that , and I am happy to do so sincerely . |
| 9 | It is in you my brethren , that I behold Narayan , for Narayan signifies ‘ God in man' ’ , and I am happy to go on pilgrimage from village to village in order to win every day the vision of God in the faces of my brothers . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ For the past few years I have built my life around rugby and I am happy to go on doing that until I ca n't go any further in the game ’ , he said . |
| 11 | The idea to which my hon. Friend refers strikes me as excellent , and I am happy to support it . |
| 12 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend and I am happy to pay tribute to the security services . |
| 13 | The Welsh-medium schools provide a first-class education and I am happy to tell my hon. Friend that Welsh is being taught in eight out of 10 primary schools in Wales and in nine out of 10 secondary schools . |
| 14 | I have told my hon. Friend in private and I am happy to tell him in public that if the doctors concerned say that when they installed the computer they did not know that the list size criterion existed , I am happy to accept that as a statement of fact . |
| 15 | Obviously , this factor alone governs a guitar synth 's overall usefulness as a serious music tool , and I 'm happy to report a significant improvement here . |
| 16 | evidence , er I would however like to point out this is n't included into the report , but much of these have these days that incidence of complaints received er by organization such as ours from the general public and I 'm happy to report this indeed can be verified factually that the incidence of complaint against the highway service has dropped off enormously in the last two or three years , certainly within the last two years when we concentrated so much of our time and effort and improved in the quality and immediacy of the service of practice , er the level of complaints these days , and these are general complaints , not |
| 17 | We all know the great fiction that the Lab is independent of the police and I 'm happy to go along with it most of the time . |
| 18 | That was a year ago , and I 'm happy to say that all went well . |
| 19 | Erm , it is perhaps only in the last er , six months or so that the erm , turnaround in the fortunes of erm , er , B Sky B have been acknowledged and er , I think there has been an element in our thinking that we wanted to keep our dry er , until such time as er , B Sky B which we have great belief and faith in and our , as you know we increased our investment during the year erm , sees its way through to profitability and I 'm happy to say that that 's happening now at a reab reasonable rate and that that means that it is highly unlikely that the hundred and thirty million of guarantees that we still have outstanding to B Sky B are likely to be called . |
| 20 | There there was a very substantial increase in ninet ninety ninety-one , and I 'm happy to say that , all but two of those projects have been fully funded by sponsors , and in fact , our policy now , and this is operated from the the first of April this year , is that all projects shall be fully funded by sponsors , and that includes a contribution to the overheads that erm , the projects incur . |
| 21 | I think that 's what Mr 's moved as an amendment , and I 'm happy to accept that , so that forms part of |
| 22 | When it was over the doctor there said , ‘ We 've found four polyps in your colon , and I 'm happy to tell you that none are cancerous . ’ |
| 23 | I am not precisely sure that I know what the right hon. Gentleman had in mind on sentencing policy , but I am happy to engage in exchanges outside . |
| 24 | All this made for a disappointing start but I am happy to say that much else is on an altogether higher level . |
| 25 | After the agreement was reached , indignant voices were raised in many quarters , but I am happy to say that few , if any , regarded my behaviour as treacherous . |
| 26 | Alas , I was to reach the age of sixty and retire before even the first sod was turned , but I am happy to relate that the building is now complete and occupied by AIB . |
| 27 | But I am happy to find that I am not alone . |
| 28 | so no winners on the football field for us this weekend … but I 'm happy to say we 've got other victories to celebrate starting with one for Shelley Nutt in the world barefoot water ski-ing championships |
| 29 | ‘ It may work out that I do n't get as many as last year , but I 'm happy to play up front and as long as Newcastle go on to win promotion it does n't really matter anyway , ’ said the converted midfield player who marked his 25th birthday with the 51st-minute opener . |