Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] that [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They are obviously regretting that they let her start the paper round , but there seemed to be no reason for them to object to it . ’ |
| 2 | I am only suggesting that you take a little time off , shall we say , until you are quite well again ? " |
| 3 | We also need Government investment to back up the youth services , teachers and parents so that the next generation of youngsters does not include a minority whose self-discipline , self-esteem and respect for their own future are so lacking that they get kicks from racing stolen cars or lobbing bottles at the police . |
| 4 | Their calls are also very intricate , and the sounds of some of them , the young , sexually mature humpback males , are so haunting that they have become a best-selling record . |
| 5 | Some have been toppled , and some are so eroded that they appear to be nothing more than wind-scoured boulders . |
| 6 | In fact , these two warts are so enlarged that they look like long swellings behind the animal 's eyes , covered with pores through which the poison seeps . |
| 7 | ‘ I hope you are so humiliated that you commit suicide . ’ |
| 8 | Some people have average abilities , but are so driven that they get their way . |
| 9 | Artificial languages have been constructed for which it is possible to ascribe unique , non-zero probabilities to generalizations , but the languages are so restricted that they contain no universal generalizations . |
| 10 | Live the natural way : No , I am not suggesting that you return to some sort of Tarzan and Jane existence , simply that you try and reduce your dependence on those mechanical things which sometimes seem to threaten to take over our lives . |
| 11 | I am not suggesting that you take this model too seriously . |
| 12 | I am not suggesting that you throw extravagant dinner parties every night when I advocate entertaining . |
| 13 | I am just saying that we have no other alternative . |
| 14 | an awful lot from teachers , you know , we 're just expecting that they know everything about sex education . |
| 15 | So all I 'm saying is , if we 're not achieving that we need to go back and look at the way in which we 're operating the fax service , have a chat with erm Phil 's people or Jackie 's peo see if there 's any differences that we can take advantage of . |
| 16 | So we 're not proposing that you turn off the mainframe on Friday and turn on your Unix or open systems machines with your database on it on Monday . |
| 17 | So we 're not proposing that you turn off the mainframe on Friday and turn on open systems on Monday . |
| 18 | you 're not feeling that you 've got lots of little isolated subjects and lots of little isolated topics and it 's all building up and it 's all a lot it is a lot , |
| 19 | We 're not saying that you do n't like that . |
| 20 | They 're so bloody thick , they 're always saying that we dress like tramps yeah then why do they wear clothes with holes in them ? |
| 21 | So what they 're now saying that you 've got |
| 22 | ‘ I think you 're about to say that I do n't understand , but I assure you I do . |
| 23 | So we 're definitely agreed that we ask the Town Clerk to make those two contacts and to put it on the agenda for the Planning Committee ? |
| 24 | Well , it 's not a positive action that is noted , as we 're actually saying that we 've we 've read it , basically . |
| 25 | People are always complaining that they do not have enough work space/dumping space , but it may well be what they really need is better organized storage . |
| 26 | In the United States it has been clearly demonstrated that they do . |
| 27 | Feelings of guilt are really about a sense of unentitlement ; in thinking that your desires and feelings are wrong or ‘ silly ’ you are also saying that you feel you are wrong or silly , and not entitled to be taken seriously , or helped . |
| 28 | The idea has been carefully propagated that they lead a ‘ middle-class ’ way of life . |
| 29 | When one begins to take passages of Scripture and to ask how those can be so presented that they speak with equal force and with the same intended meaning as when they were originally communicated , all kinds of possibilities emerge . |
| 30 | I 'm not demanding that you succeed , only that you try . |