Example sentences of "be [verb] [is] that [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason so many things are delayed is that they have to be perfect . |
| 2 | What I am suggesting is that I think if you if you concentrate only on the question of who are the chief officers that 's very important and that 's very indicative , but it 's not the whole story . |
| 3 | So what I am suggesting is that you do n't accept this resolution and you accept a modified or amended version of it . |
| 4 | We are told that " the reason why constituencies of about five members are recommended is that they form communities [ ? ] where electors may be expected to have sufficient personal knowledge of the candidates ' . |
| 5 | And what happens to the little oxygens once they 're discarded is that they do n't go back and join an oxygen molecule . |
| 6 | No they 're not the realities , because what we 're saying is that we have to modernize the policies of the Labour Party , but the policies are absolutely based in our traditional concerns , I mean , let me give you an example , when Beveridge was talking about unemployment , and the life long need for people to work , he was talking about a male workforce , where it was a man supported by a non-working wife , now we still have at the absolute heart of our concerns in the Labour Party peoples need to work , but we 're now talking about a situation , where women are sharing with their husbands the role of bed breadwinner , and in many families the woman is the sole breadwinner , and therefore our policies about employment and the economy recognize that the world has changed , our principles are the same , but the world to which we 're applying it is very different , and , again , on that you see there would be no distinction between the so-called traditionalists and the so-called modernizers . |
| 7 | I mean you could have , if you have basically what we 're saying is that you have a whole load of of subject reports and on the top of it you 've got form tutor report |
| 8 | What , what you 're saying is that I mean broadly this is , is quite an incentive based system , at least on the face of it |
| 9 | If I 've got this right , then what you 're saying is that I do n't need to feel any jealousy about the multiplicity of your sexual partners , because you 're married . |
| 10 | But what Gunshot have got over those they 're criticising is that they do n't give a shit who they upset . |
| 11 | The only reason that I am speaking is that I do not believe that the guillotine motion has anything to do with speeding up the Education ( Schools ) Bill because time was being wasted . |
| 12 | Well what I am saying is that I do n't think it is his primary concern . |
| 13 | The main criterion by which all these forms of pedogenic modification may be distinguished is that they affect all parts of the bones and teeth more or less equally , so that the whole of the surface is altered , not just small parts of it . |
| 14 | We remember the dazzling tries of Gareth Edwards , Gerald Davies and the rest but what tends to be forgotten is that they needed the Welsh forwards to pulverise their opponents into submission first . |
| 15 | The only sense in which the legislature can be properly said to have authorised these things to be done is that it has enabled the Poor Law Board to order , and the managers to do them , if , and when , and where , they can obtain by free bargain and contract the means of doing so . |
| 16 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 17 | We seldom read in the tabloid press local police force fails er we may frequently read in the local press in the tabloid press rather , that the Home Secretary has failed and yet what we seem to be saying is that we believe that all the responsibility should be local , all that responsibility , all the blame when things go wrong should go to the Home Secretary . |
| 18 | I know you 're not Steve but all I 'm saying is that we had a discussion about this earlier in the week . |
| 19 | And what I 'm saying is that we make less cracker but with the advertising we 're doing doing at the moment , in the magazine and Yellow Pages and I just want to kind I 'm going to talk to you about what other ways of advertising . |
| 20 | So that when you introduce yourself , you are seen as a haulier , was the phrase you used , er , and we , we 'd all need to spend an awful lot of time and an awful lot of effort into raising ourselves above that image , I mean there 's nothing wrong with being a haulier , all I 'm saying is that we have to raise ourselves above that image . |
| 21 | All , all I 'm saying is that we need to , before we literally start dotting I 's and crossing T's in any literal sense is to sussed out whether that 's gon na , whether they 're going to be receptive to the subject matter . |
| 22 | All I 'm saying is that we do n't have to go groping about in corners looking for motive , there 's plenty of it lying about . |
| 23 | There 's a lot of conservatism in the vocal world here , and they sometimes come to performances to compare if it 's louder or softer ; I like big voices and I 'm trying to collect every rich voice I can , does n't matter if it 's in Novosibirsk where we heard Gorchakova , but what I 'm saying is that it has to be a complex , not just a voice and something else , or not just actor and a bit of voice . ’ |
| 24 | I mean , what I 'm saying is that I 've come across many of dem who try to speak the Jamaican language , er , the Jamaican Patois , but how they speak it is totally different , becau' they 've got the English accent , and um , dey , becau' they 've got the English accent they try to speak the Jamaican local Patois the same way and in doin' so it sounds really terrible you know it sort of sounds you know it 's really funny . |
| 25 | ‘ All I 'm saying is that I think we need to be apart for a while , come down to earth , if you like . |
| 26 | So , I mean what I 'm saying is that I think we should have a league table if you like of , of attendances , I , I recognise that that may not be popular , but I think it 's going to be one way of sorting out those people who attend every opportunity , and sometimes just to pat an officer on the back . |
| 27 | If we 're gon na do a deal then we , we , we have some to drive it through but what I 'm saying is that I think that if you have this meeting I , which is what February the second ? |
| 28 | There is a problem of access to affordable housing , all I 'm saying is that you do n't solve it by wholesale allocation of land . |
| 29 | Now all I 'm saying is that he undertook to give us those in forty eight hours . |
| 30 | All I 'm asking is that you take time to weigh up the deal I 'm offering and — Do you have a licence ? ’ |