Example sentences of "[vb infin] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | the first thing that we , we , we would respect is and suggest and this is a course which has been offered erm , erm , in order of other cases , er , we should ask that the er because of the adjournment necessary for investigation , the , the money will attract interest and we would ask for an order that the erm , the plaintiff is entitled to interest at the special account rate on any lump sum hereafter ordered to be paid , now what that means is that if at the end of the day the instruction say goes off and the conventional lump sum order is made , we are entitled to interest on the whole of that lump sum , if on the other hand a structured settlement is put into position and er part is either applied to the purchase of the annuities , in the commercial way to try and settle it or taken it back by the health authority , in consideration for self funding structured settlement , then we would only get the interest on the actual cash we have been kept |
| 2 | The unfortunate fact that my right hon. Friend must recognise is that the current treaty has been negotiated by the current Government , who do not share our sense of priorities . |
| 3 | A rather similar , and equally mistaken , line of thought which might appeal is as follows . |
| 4 | What we do n't know is whether that crate contains the kegs . |
| 5 | What we do n't know is whether March is a start of a new trend upwards above budget , that 's a different scenario cos then you can say okay , just like we talked about with claims and E W S. |
| 6 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 7 | What we do know is that Lloyd George , despite his public stance of support for the National Government , thought , in private , that it had been a mistake for the Liberals to join it . |
| 8 | What we do know is that his full conversion to Christianity released in him a literary flow which only ceased with death . |
| 9 | WHAT I do know is that people like Havel have been getting a little impatient with those relishing pieces appearing lately in the American press that say , roughly : ‘ Right , you guys over there have had your romantic Ruritanian fun and games with revolution and dancing in the streets . |
| 10 | I do n't know what my future style will be but the one thing I do know is that I will keep on changing . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I plan the holidays and what the others do n't know is that , in the course of planning , I 've developed the precise art of finding somewhere to stay where , when you open your bedroom window , in front of you is the most splendid bit of Romanesque architecture . |
| 12 | What we do know is that the first Rottweiler to be registered with the New Zealand Club was Auslese Montrachet , who was imported from Australia . |
| 13 | The only thing I do know is that something must be done to get her away from here … anywhere . ’ |
| 14 | What we do know is that , in the United Kingdom , men who reach 60 have a further life expectancy of 16.8 years and women have a further life expectancy of 21.2 years . |
| 15 | What I do know is that , faced with cancer , the desire for solitude was somewhat tempered . |
| 16 | What I do know is that we owe a great debt to these doughty fighters of the past in banishing the menace of the Krooms for ever from this green and pleasant land . |
| 17 | What my source was up to , I have no idea ; all I do know is that while the world was waiting to discover how Mrs Thatcher was ever going to be toppled , the most unlikely possibility was that she might admit she had been wrong about something and ask for her P45 without more ado . |
| 18 | ‘ The thing that people do n't know is that there was a horrendous gap in between . |
| 19 | If you buy a ‘ Rolex ’ watch for £50 , you know it 's unlikely to be genuine , but what you would n't know is that it may only be worth £5 . |
| 20 | What I do know is that The Da completely missed the point , as usual . |
| 21 | What I do know is that whatever Mario says ( ‘ I do n't think he was too unhappy about it ’ ) or Colin thought ( ‘ The atmosphere within the team was the happiest I can remember ’ ) , that was not the way Ronnie saw it . |
| 22 | What we and Holyfield do know is that Bowe offers a safer route , if not to heavyweight immortality then to respectful acceptance by his peers for his efforts inside the ring , in line with the respect his quiet dignity commands outside it . |
| 23 | ‘ What I do know is that the scale of success we could be embarking upon far out-strips anything I experienced at Liverpool . |
| 24 | ‘ What they do n't know is that we do n't look like that either . ’ |
| 25 | What you do know is that it has caused you considerable hurt and pain . |
| 26 | The origins of HIV are uncertain yet one thing we do know is that HIV has the potential to affect everybody worldwide . |
| 27 | What we do know is that they can have extremely unpleasant effects . |
| 28 | All I do know is that it truly happened . ’ |
| 29 | All I do know is that we 're very conscious a great deal of money 's been spent by the Council and by the Trust to try and make the place outside more inviting those tubs been put there er they been planted etc there 's a lot of litter there we 've put litter bins there there 's taxi rank there there 's lot 's of things been put there I think the problem is it is n't the people who do that I mean it 's the people who actually do the litter and it 's quite clear that we do go out we do tidy up but it happens and it 's a case of balance of what we can do and what you ca n't do but we do work at it I can assure you . |
| 30 | It has to be possible to dream and speak the unthinkable , for the only thing that we do know is that we shall not know what tomorrow 's world will be like . |