Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [that] " in BNC.

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1 You perhaps do not realize how long and desperately people have fought to keep Winston Spencer Churchill in the wilderness , and how furiously angry many of them are that he is back where he belongs .
2 I 'm sure , then , that readers of Dogs Today will be as concerned as I am that a well respected and successful breed rescue charity looks set to collapse this year , unless they receive real help — financial and physical — immediately .
3 I am that God to whom you w ill not pray .
4 And , Sir , I come to crave of you a boon , that you will give me Rodrigo of Bivar to be my husband , with whom I shall hold myself well married , and greatly honoured ; for certain I am that his possessions will one day be greater than those of any man in your dominions .
5 Yes : and I am that salmon
6 I am that I am .
7 Ian Luder , head of Arthur Andersen 's executive and personal taxation services group , says that ‘ the more that I have been working on employee schemes , the more convinced I am that there is an impact ’ .
8 Branson stood beside Simon Draper , visibly shaking , his face set in a grim mask , ‘ I ca n't tell you , ’ he began , ‘ how sad I am that people have felt the need to have a meeting , without Simon and I being present .
9 ‘ As sure as I am that you 'll leave New York as you arrived — empty-handed . ’
10 JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London .
11 ‘ Sure I am that until this party was sighted , the Lord Owen had no thought in his mind of any such happening , and no plans to provoke it .
12 In fact the more I look at her the more convinced I am that she resembles one of the Yorkies .
13 May I say how thrilled I am that that United Kingdom shipyard has such a healthy order book ?
14 The more I read about Opposition policy the more convinced I am that if they were in government there would be no food left to eat in this country .
15 ‘ As certain as I am that Queen Margaret has two tits !
16 JUST THOUGHT I 'd write to say how surprised and disappointed I am that the 10,000 Maniacs have decided ( at the time of writing ) to play only three live dates in the UK this year , all of which are in London .
17 May I start by saying how pleased I am that you have recognised Michael Buerk , Alistair Cooke and the Today programme team .
18 Well I strange erm accusation yes we will be , we would keep the council tax down if I am that that would be a popular message to give out and so having accepted our below er the guideline figures they did take this into consideration but we have a budget that has elements of growth in industry .
19 ‘ After all you 've done in the past for Rosemary and me , and are still doing , ’ he went on , ‘ I got to thinking yesterday that I could have been a sight more energetic in letting you know how delighted I am that you 're going to marry my cousin .
20 Oh , how glad I am that I did n't die .
21 ‘ Have n't I shown you how delighted I am that you did ?
22 But first I want to say how sorry I am that I had to send Dawn to you instead of coming myself as I promised .
23 Disgusted as I am that an estate full of innocent people can be used as pawns in a much more complex and devious game , this threat comes as no surprise to me .
24 Because when I was thinking about trying to talking to you today , I thought although we 've worked quite a lot with people along this group , you might be sitting here and thinking well you do n't seem to be doing any specific work for and with old people erm , well I think your quite independent and can work out your right that , but one of the things this front line review erm it erm , it 's considering Council front line services under various headings , one of which is Retired Services that the Council provide as a group , now the leader of the Council wants to erm , get public views on how we look at these services , so , and that 's , that 's individuals and groups and one of the things that you might like to think about and I 'm that we as a local government unit who are servicing this review can help you with , is to consider how you might want to fee in for that review , erm and , and consider this , that the re-services for retired people , that the Council provides that you use and basically whether you use that , or service , we want to hear that , the Council would need to know that cos were gon na be making decisions about whether or not they should continue in this front line review erm , and erm , you know , or what things you would , what , what are your questions on about those services , what other things you would like to see provided , things like that and I thing this group could quite easily make a collective representation , a collective submission to that process then you could do it as individual 's as well , so that , that exercise it , it should be over by the eleventh of October it starts on the sixth of September .
25 I would agree with you that if the if we have gone along and said to people , well er yo , we 've got alternative accommodation for you and they have n't wanted to go then , well I 'm sure that we hope not to give them that er er , alternative accommodation er , and it 's not in our interest at all to er , keep er , places empty , and further more we have n't really got er enough er , alternative places to put er , these er tenants in so I 'm that it 's as the result of the sort of dwellings that er we 've er we now find ourselves with as a result of the er initial buildings in the first place .
26 Oh I 'm that are n't you ?
27 So what what I 'm that that that 's the sort of basic outline and I see it as an opportunity of putting the name in front of quite a lot of schools
28 It means that I 'm that you and Edward are .
29 Nobody is that I 'm that I 'm aware , is proposing a distribution park of strategic importance .
30 I 'm that he wants .
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