Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [is] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The greatest irony is that I thought he could help me in my research on rape , ’ she says . |
| 2 | A further point is that I have been strongly advised that we should take out cover against the need to indemnify owners against not being able to occupy their units due to events such as fire , flood or damage by previous occupants . |
| 3 | And as I walk back through the streets the other thing fuelling this self-criticism is that I turned up there with the gun . |
| 4 | The other thing that I wonder might have some bearing is that I know parts of Sally Park and Sally Oak and they 're very acid , they can grow rhododendrons and azaleas and things very well . |
| 5 | The result of this strategy is that I 've never missed a plane in twenty-eight years of international travel — except once . |
| 6 | Another reason is that I thought writing in it might be like having someone to talk to , and if I read it back later it would be like someone talking to me . |
| 7 | ‘ Another thing is that I 've started trying to play real tunes , real melodies — straight from the heart , really trying to commit myself . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , the funny thing is that I do n't know really what it 's like because I 'm not in that little room any more . |
| 9 | The only reason for this conversation is that I need transport . ’ |
| 10 | The sad part is that I 've come to hate my body so much , I blame it for everything , and now I ca n't let anyone get close to me , to reassure me . ’ |
| 11 | The second point is that I 've , the Americans I , I , it 's one of the promises about street life in second from the bottom , two weeks in the winter , four weeks in the summer , well I know to my cost erm through my ear being blasted which is why you 're a County Councillor anyway , that it 's been six weeks at the present time , we 've had a lot of lights going down , okay we 're trying to improve it , we had people walking into cars , er , er a few burglaries which I 'm pleased to say the police have helped out in , but if we 're going to change and get it down from a level of six weeks to two weeks as it is in the area I represent , is that not a question of putting extra resources in it and there 's no good putting promises unless we can deliver . |
| 12 | And my second reason is that I 've come to doubt the futurologists , the people in the think tanks . |
| 13 | The second reason is that I wanted to educate the carp into finding bait in the area before I alter the character of the swim in any way . |
| 14 | Again my my personal view is that I think phasing has got a lot a lot going for it but I do not know how you could phase current commitments , because after all those those are on the table now . |
| 15 | ‘ The usual routine is that I get frog-marched into the presence of the Topmost Panjandrum so that he can have a good gloat . |
| 16 | One thing I can say of him with total confidence is that I have never met a man less interested in money . |
| 17 | Further , it makes me angry with myself to find that the perfectly natural and utterly unfair result is that I begin to dislike Paxford , no exercise of the will convincing me that it is not the unfortunate P. who is boring me with his views on everything under the sun . |
| 18 | It takes me about a quarter of an hour to walk briskly to work — the maddening thing is that I do not bring so that walking is reduced rather as my feet get tired in the heat , and we have had some really hot and humid days . |
| 19 | The only other major change is that I put Van Zandt pickups in them . |
| 20 | My answer to that long intervention is that I did not say that a payroll tax was the same as the selective employment tax . |
| 21 | ‘ However , the good news is that I managed to find the switch for the air-conditioning . |
| 22 | ‘ The important thing is that I got in a couple of block tackles , which was significant . |
| 23 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
| 24 | But the plain fact is that I have had a devilish run of ill luck , and I do not care for Thompson 's tariff . |
| 25 | My only excuse is that I love Paige very much , and I always protect those I love . |
| 26 | He told TODAY soon after the tragedy : ‘ My only crime is that I fell in love with another girl . ’ |
| 27 | Luckily this has n't hurt my fish , but the reason for the purchase in the first place is that I plan to set up a marine tank in the near future and I wanted to check my local tapwater . |
| 28 | The only difference is that I suppose er at we have er which is development in North Stockton , we have er erm permission for four hundred erm executive dwellings which is the sort of er market which you could have been looking for at in the past . |
| 29 | The only point is that I want that foreigner not to undersell my labour and I want him to be as competent to do the work as well as I would do it myself . |
| 30 | That 's perfectly true , it is a system of the end of the world and my only consc my only complaint is that I do n't think that what my Right Honourable Friend is suggesting is in fact a destruction of the tripartite system . |