Example sentences of "[that] i [be] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I come now to what will be the first of many simplicities which I shall offer to you this afternoon ; for I am sure you already realise from what you know of my speakings and writings — and it will be all the more painfully obvious in half an hour 's time — that I am incurably simpliste . |
| 32 | In view of the fact that I am walking this is somewhat academic , but it gives us a point of contact . |
| 33 | Often I find that I am many hundreds of metres behind the party when I escape from the trance of pattern-watching and childhood recall . |
| 34 | It is , I decide , not my fault either that I am a human being who does not want to be eaten alive . |
| 35 | I ask Tor , who has come across to see how I am coping , if this is normal , a guarded , off-the-cuff way of informing him that I am shit-scared and would like the weather to change . |
| 36 | For the moment I am concentrating mostly on the fact that I am riding under the Arctic sky , a very black sky , heavily overcast , being pulled across the ice by a team of dogs . |
| 37 | By the time we get to the jarv tracks I am over it , putting it down to a poor night 's sleep and a wearing day that have combined so that I am feeling the cold more than I normally do . |
| 38 | It was a fight but now that I am at college you can believe I am the happiest girl around here . |
| 39 | People all the time wish to pigeon-hole you … to say that I am totally a chat-show host or I am entirely a serious headmistress figure . |
| 40 | ‘ But you must remember that I am an industrialist and , really , factories are as interesting to me as museums , ha ! ha ! ’ |
| 41 | ‘ I do n't want it known here [ i.e. at Magdalen ] that I am writing ‘ pomes ’ [ sic ] . ’ |
| 42 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ The decision to do so was one of the hardest I have ever made : but now that I am committed ( by dint of posting the letter before I had time to change my mind ) I began to be afraid of opposite extremes — afraid that I am merely indulging in an orgy of egoism . ’ |
| 44 | It is for refugees in Britain that I am writing to ask for your help . |
| 45 | ‘ It is because of you that I am living here in peace . |
| 46 | ‘ It is pointless and ill informed to say that I am entering a profession trained in killing , ’ he said in his defence . |
| 47 | And now that I am inclined to hear time 's winged chariot hovering near , and see deserts of vast eternity not too far ahead , I am determined to make the most of my remaining years both in my secluded garden and on my open-space allotment . |
| 48 | But my personal philosophy is that I am not incredibly optimistic , but I am a realistic utopian or a utopian realist . ’ |
| 49 | ‘ To the 40,000 or so employees , the further 50,000 employed by their distributors , and some tens of thousands more employed by their suppliers I would say that I am delighted that Rover is part of British Aerospace . ’ |
| 50 | I have to say that I am now prepared to act as I see it : with the same political cunning as any politician . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ It is not that I am in favour of it , it is what is happening . |
| 52 | ISWALLOW hard , suspecting that I am about to become another statistic in the rising tide of Tube violence , 380 reported assaults a year and mounting , 16,000 other crimes . |
| 53 | Yet I must still think it my duty , without reconsidering whether or not it be worthwhile , to continue this plain record of what ( I know ) need not have been plain but for the accident that I am a niggler without impulse , not an imaginative artist . |
| 54 | Restless that I am , I often pray that someone would cage and rule me entirely . |
| 55 | Ignoble creature that I am ! |
| 56 | Silly that I am ! |
| 57 | Otherwise , ‘ how great soever the assurance is , that I am possessed with , it is groundless ; whatever light I pretend to , it is but enthusiasm . ’ |
| 58 | That I am living in Britain in the first place has everything to do with the fact that I came here to start the magazine you are reading , a magazine for men . |
| 59 | One Cabinet colleague surveying the scene murmured to me : ‘ There is no way that I am going to grow old in the service of this House . ’ |
| 60 | While I owe much to that tradition and trust that I am still persona grata within it , in many respects I have gone beyond Evangelical thought on matters to do with the Church and sacraments . |