Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] 's [adj] [verb] that " in BNC.

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1 With talk of a series of stand alone shops it 's hard to believe that the idea is n't to rival Marks .
2 In this learning process it 's acceptable to remember that we are all imperfect .
3 She says it 's wrong to say that only Mrs Maxwell lost her pension .
4 ‘ On average I suppose it 's fair to say that they are down here once every three months so we know exactly what they want and how to give it to them . ’
5 I do n't think it 's reasonable to expect that you will ever get rid of jealousy or fear or anxiety .
6 benefits , not knowing where to find out about benefits , and I think it 's right to say that benefits agency staff are there to give information and there is a
7 Er , overall I think it 's right to say that we 're disappointed by these results but we 're not downhearted .
8 In terms of Greater York and its th the York greenbelt I think it 's true to say that er some time ago when David Kaiserman of Manchester did research on greenbelts he came to the view , or he came up with the conclusions from his questionnaires that he sent round , and that study was done , must be ten , fifteen years ago or more , that greenbelts should endure unchanged for at least twenty years , and probably in excess of thirty , and those were the responses of county planning and other major planning authorities at that time , that view if anything has hardened , the public view would be way beyond thirty years .
9 In fact I think it 's true to say that when the forty six hectare figure wa was agreed , it was known that the coal field was coming and er I think time has shown has n't brought anything like the number of jobs or economic
10 I think it 's true to say that the design responsible company , Deutsch Aerospace erm has discovered that er there 's a lot more software in this system than they had originally imagined and the , their sub contractors of course , they 've had to er write various parts of that for them and erm putting together the four elements of the programme has been a lot more complex than anyone imagined .
11 I think it 's true to say that we give it to them and we also drink it ourselves .
12 There is an additional aspect that erm we we must look also , I think , at the viability of the services and facilities , er , within the new settlement , if the new settlement is , for the sake of argument five hundred houses then my submission is that that really offers no long term viability for any facility or service , erm , clearly you might get a primary school if the new settlement size was of the order of eight hundred to a thousand dwellings , but you would not get any sizable retail element , and so however far that settlement was located from the main centre they would still become dependant on that centre , and that 's why I think it 's important to recognize that if you are to achieve the erm if you like the balance of requirements , of achieving erm a reasonable degree of self containment within the new settlement , but also meet the needs of York , it has to be a reasonable size , but located as close to York as possible
13 I think it 's important to understand that all my work is about demystification — both of the self and of the medical and family discourses which defined me for much of my life .
14 I 'm rather advertising this because I think it 's important to understand that although , and I 'm sure you know , that there 's this constant war really between , it was n't of course a physical war , but certainly tension , and difficulty between the university and the city .
15 I think it 's exciting to think that on the rare occasion we feature a non farming issue , we discover what a group of internationalists our readers are , and how in touch you are with current affairs .
16 I think it 's fair to say that the only significant report from the Operations Information Officer during this tour has been the dates of the first flights bringing Swedish holidaymakers to Larnaca .
17 Yes , it costs a lot of money , but I think it 's fair to say that that cost is within reach of the serious working player , and it could well be the answer for aspiring rock guitarists who need ‘ that ’ sound .
18 But I think it 's fair to say that the changes in the n nine , early nineteen eighties particularly those which gave the unions a predominant position in choosing the leader , were not of the unions ' making , certainly not of the G M B's making , as I know from personal experience at the time .
19 I think it 's fair to say that the Secretary of State has accepted that the special character of North Yorkshire , require a balance to be struck between environmental protection and development in the county .
20 It 's certainly true that government guidance is far more guarded erm in its support for new settlements erm the guidance has has of course been touched on but I would adem emphasize the dates of this guidance , er P P G three , housing , March nineteen ninety two , P P G twelve , development plans and regional planning guidance , February nineteen ninety two , and draft P P G thirteen , May nineteen ninety three , just looking briefly at P P G three , erm P P G , and I think it 's fair to say that P P G three takes up far less welcoming stance than did the previous erm P P G erm it recognizes that new settlements are controversial , and that the scope is likely to be limited .
21 I think it 's fair to say that know more about it than I do , but there has been a High Court case recently which has , seems to have er torpedoed the er prospect of er including affordable housing in new housing deals , so I 'm informed .
22 And finally just in terms of er public transport , I think it 's fair to say that there there 's probably little in it between them all because they 're all very poorly served by public transport .
23 Jobs will be found in Harrogate as elsewhere , and if we 're thinking of lumping in the B one office use and the other B uses in with the manufacturing , I think it 's fair to say that office uses are going to be far denser in terms of number of jobs per hectare than manufacturing , and therefore the allocations may not seem to be as great as otherwise might have been demanded .
24 I think it 's fair to say that it 's not quite as simple as just deleting that item out of the budget , there are in fact I think five or six people working for community arts and in the events of that item being deleted we would presumably have to add on the costs of making them redundant erm an an an and dis erm the community arts scheme I think represents , it 's true to say , a range of expertise .
25 I think it 's fair to say that we 've gone a long , long way in Oxford to breaking down barriers with regard to the inspection priorities , and we are in a position within the city where we have nature of , if you like , technicians and staff that are doing jobs that in many other surrounding areas , and indeed throughout the country are the prerogative of E H O , and these include areas specified as high-risk by MAFF , and include a great bulk of all customer and consumer complaints .
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