Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [adv] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am reliably assured that King 's College Chapel in Cambridge , which has stood as steady as a rock for the past 450 years , could never be built today because the design would never be accepted under the safety limits of the building regulations ! |
| 2 | I am simply denying that God ( whatever we may mean by God ) could be of such a kind that God could intervene in human history , or be revealed through particular events in history , or through a particular person , in a way in which God is not potentially present to us in and through all acts and persons . |
| 3 | I am simply arguing that Brooke-Rose 's analyses point toward her later use of what she herself describes as ‘ metaphor ’ at the level of discourse . |
| 4 | I am not stating that Lord Armstrong was obeying government instructions over this much ridiculed staff restructuring : I am asking if he was . |
| 5 | I am not suggesting that Scotland has ‘ lost out ’ over the past 13 years from the fact that there was only one fund based in London . |
| 6 | Of course , the success of this lesson has to do with more than structure ( indeed , I am not suggesting that structure is all a teacher needs to know about ! ) . |
| 7 | Of course , I am not suggesting that women should give in to biology ( perish the thought ) , but that PMS is not quite the pathological state that a few health experts would appear to be suggesting . |
| 8 | The notion of difference of level between quite different programming languages can equally well be expressed within a single language : at a single level of language , say of the programming language LISP , one normally defines a function in terms of sub-functions , so that I might for example write a function WALK(x) ( where x ranges over walkers ) whose sub-functions ( to be executed in order ) might be some form of LIFT-RIGHT-LEG ; FLEX-RIGHT-FOOT ; and so on ( I am not suggesting that sequence would be even remotely plausible in fact ) . |
| 9 | I am not claiming that meat is indispensable for good health ; it is only necessary to show that a diet to which it contributes can be no less healthy than one from which it is excluded . |
| 10 | I am not arguing that children do not suffer at the hands of adults ; clearly they do and again we have looked at the evidence concerning incidence and prevalence . |
| 11 | Although the Utting report , which was published in the summer , made it clear that training was not the central issue in such cases , I am not arguing that professionalism is not important . |
| 12 | By emphasizing this convergence I am not saying that culture and identity are unimportant , but challenging the routine reduction of race to them alone which obscures the inherently political character of the term . |
| 13 | I am not saying that disturbances always have a single cause . |
| 14 | I am not saying that women religious have totally solved the problem . |
| 15 | I am not saying that churches should not state their views about social evils , but it is quite another thing to imagine that clear statements are denting the Evil One 's power . |
| 16 | I am not saying that people who are directly subjected to racism are inevitably attracted to one-dimensional argument or that those who are not necessarily take a more sophisticated view . |
| 17 | I am not saying that Christians subscribe openly to such a view of doubt . |
| 18 | ‘ I am not saying that Charles is incapable of love , it 's just that he has this unreal perception of women . |
| 19 | But I am not saying that Dr. Briant should necessarily be stopped from making his scientific searches , for his ability to do so is as God-given as that warning . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm simply saying that Sarella disclaimed all rights to Uncle 's bequest before becoming engaged to me . |
| 21 | ‘ But I 'm just content that things have been going pretty well on the field so far . |
| 22 | I 'm just saying that things might be less confused , and less dangerous , if he could soberly entertain the idea of being homosexual . |
| 23 | I 'm not suggesting that Paul Rideout , Tony Cottee , Maurice Johnston and Stuart Barlow are all bad players , but they do not give Everton that extra option someone like - dare I say it again - Graeme Sharp would offer . |
| 24 | I 'm not suggesting that legislators woke up one morning and said : ‘ We must abolish slavery ! ’ or ‘ Bear baiting must cease ! ’ , but for the position to have changed from tacit acceptance to wholesale condemnation , there must have been a fulcrum point when the arguments tipped decidedly in one direction . |
| 25 | I 'm not saying that P P G twelve does not apply . |
| 26 | I 'm not saying that women and girls are bad . |
| 27 | ‘ I 'm not saying that women ca n't raise sons on their own , I 'm saying that it 's difficult for a woman to teach , and very near impossible , in my mind , for a woman to teach a young boy how to be a man . |
| 28 | Do n't get me wrong , I 'm not saying that companies should n't sponsor ballet or opera , but I think they have to not lose sight of sponsorship potential with the disadvantages as well as the anonymous giving branch , because small amounts of money to some organizations may do disproportionately more than the Scottish Opera |
| 29 | I 'm not saying that negotiations should be completed by a certain date , but that the matter should come back to court by a certain date so that there is therefore er er is a time , an incentive for the |
| 30 | But I 'm not saying that people are incompetent , but it takes a certain amount |