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

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1 The manner in which the security forces in Northern Ireland conduct themselves commands the admiration of all , and I am quite certain that the hon. Gentleman did not intend to impute any lack of commitment to them .
2 I do not believe Jenkins had any such ambition , and I am quite sure that it was not within his nature to take any active steps to intrigue , but Harold Wilson did believe — and conscientiously so — that such intrigues were taking place .
3 Of course , the Scottish Office runs a number of public information campaigns and I am quite sure that the hon. Gentleman would want us to do that to encourage the improvement of health in various ways .
4 And I 'm quite certain that the series of injuries was no more than an unfortunate set of coincidences . ’
5 Er Mr also commented om the er consideration of the er emerging alteration and increase in Selby District 's allocation from ten thousand to eleven and a half thousand dwellings erm and I would like to assure him now that we have completed out local plan studies , we are in the process of fine tuning them and and I 'm quite confident that we will be able to accommodate the eleven and a half thousand dwellings .
6 Chairman , can I say briefly that the merger and I 'm quite pleased that we 've finally er there is a death knell to this this awful word , it 's been bandied on for far too long , it 's been perhaps the single most controversial issue that has been debated by this authority along with some other mediocre issues and no one here would not admit er to the fact that it has been opposed on such massive scale and even today we 've had a further petition of three hundred and ninety five people opposing er this this this dreadful merger decision that was hanging over the er the the two centres and I 'm pleased that er this this er amendment , this er er erm this petition was brought forward today because it does indicate the continuing support and opposition to er the the kind of things that we should be doing and and those that we should n't .
7 And and I 'm quite sure that many of the people erm living in the flats , never had anything new .
8 And I 'm quite sure that you are exactly my style ! ’ he added smoothly , removing the champagne glass from her trembling hand and setting it down on a nearby table .
9 And I 'm quite sure that a major factor in their recovery is going to be knowing that their children are happy , and being well cared for . ’
10 ‘ We have still got ten days to go and I 'm quite sure that in that time our efforts will mean Mr Gregory will be all right . ’
11 I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority .
12 And I 'm quite sure that what Mr Major will then say if , if er demand and borrowing and so on does take off again , er is that this is because the real economy has improved , but of course it wo n't be true , er and we shall have to pay the price again er at the end of the , of the honeymoon period .
13 That would be a very great challenge for us to do , especially because we have never had the chance before to think about that , but er now I think that could be , er could become reality and I 'm quite sure that er there are teachers from that part of Germany who would like to , to work in your country ; maybe er English teachers er from East Germany teaching the German language here , that 's one thing I could imagine .
14 Data , sorry and I 'm quite happy that they 're called Data Processing .
15 The comparison between Watteau & Picasso was illuminating , and I was quite surprised that he admired the Watteau , though I suppose it could be a case of one manneristic painter admiring another ?
16 And you 're quite sure that you did n't go into that room , either of you ? ’
17 And you 're quite sure that while the car was down in Streatley , the thieves who I 'm after would n't have had a chance to take it and use it for their break-in ? ’
18 I have been over her story several times and she is quite positive that she saw Monsieur Erdle walking towards the belvedere at about half past nine , although she is unable to state the precise hour .
19 They were free to look over the top of the box to see what size the bricks really were , and they were quite aware that their own view was distorted because one of the portholes contained a magnifying lens .
20 he could feel the heat from her body and he was quite sure that , beneath the long cotton nightdress , she was naked .
21 A er and er it was kept secret for many a year , but er the just when they were , there the excise men came upon them , and this old ancestor of mine he was a big lad , over six foot , and he was quite sure that the man was n't going to take his whisky .
22 Rob Andrew , Craig Chalmers and Ralph Keyes may not be everyone 's cups of tea and it 's quite possible that someone like Colin Stephens may turn out to be a far greater player , but for England , Scotland and Ireland each one has shown that he is virtually indispensable .
23 In the case of Dr Jordan , they have the figures in front of them and it 's quite understandable that questions should be asked about his unusually high night-time payments .
24 And it 's quite likely that we never will .
25 Most of the ninety two naturally occurring elements , that 's leaving aside the , the elements that have been created artificially in particle accelerators and things , have been found in sea water and it 's quite likely that those that have n't yet been recorded from sea water will be recorded as our analeti er as our analytical techniques get better .
26 And it 's quite clear that the decorative touches have made this house a warm and welcoming home in which to spend Christmas .
27 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 .
28 Er , on paragraph nine the government 's own figures show that there is a shortfall of glee while the others who have a a social conscience , a and that they 've mixed , the site provision is n't keeping pace with the growth of the number of caravans and yet , what it 's proposing to do in this paper will make the situation worse by removing any incentive erm and any requirement on local authorities actually to provide the sites that are needed to make up that shortfall and it 's quite clear that what this is about is actually what it is happening in housing in general and that is shifting provision from the pri , from the public to the private sector .
29 Look at the implications looking back over it when when Fire and Public Protection had produced their report , but certainly the things are and it 's quite clear that we all know this case in my particular the river has been constricted by some thoroughly bad planning decisions and development control districts and they 're paying them that the owners are paying the penalty for that erm reducing the ditches and er building over them and okay we 've got problems erm so er there are structure plan implications erm which I do n't I think we should miss and if we say that really building on a is a principle well then we should try it right into the structure plan or looking at local plans for approval that we actually look at this a little bit more carefully .
30 We are here to serve people of Cambridge and it 's quite clear that the people of Cambridge do want good services , they want , they want services which which improve the quality of life in in in the cities and this is precisely what is erm spending is there to do .
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