Example sentences of "i [verb] that it [be] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , we did go down there for a week to explore the possibilities , and I admitted that it was n't what it was and that the rosy glow that still suffused me at the very name was probably nostalgia for my touring days , when it was the most prestigious of all the dates .
2 I regret that it is not possible to provide any further information on this matter at present , and hope that this information will be of assistance to you .
3 I regret that it is not possible separately to identify the money devoted to the range of conditions associated with the menopause from the £225 million spent on medical research last year .
4 I regret that it is not possible to provide that information in the form requested .
5 I repeat that it is not , and never has been , our policy to encourage local authorities or education authorities to promote homosexuality ...
6 I mean that it is not really government run er .
7 A closer look and I realized that it was not fog but smoke , and very thick at that .
8 Then I looked at it again and I realized that it was n't too hard .
9 It was even worse when I realised that it was more than that .
10 In Chapter 2 , I argued that it is very important to test the system as a whole as early as possible rather than to develop components in isolation .
11 I have n't had a period for over a year , and although sometimes I think to myself ‘ I 'm all right really ’ , then I remember I have n't got my periods back and I realise that it 's not as simple as it seems .
12 I realise that it 's not only an illness , I suppose , but it 's quite selfish in a way .
13 I realise that it is constantly in the interests of the Opposition to belittle the Government 's successes , but that is certainly one .
14 McAllister , who had put the doll down , and was now fetching out her work basket to embroider pansies on some fine lawn dresses made for the bazaar by the aforesaid ladies , said , ‘ I did n't mean to become involved , you know , but Matey has been so kind to me — when not slave-driving me , you understand — that when she asked me to accompany her I had not the heart to refuse , and strangely , after I began to work for the bazaar , I found that it was most rewarding . ’
15 er and of course I 've known Walter for years but I do n't know his wife , I 've never met his wife and of course not being able to get out into the street now , I should get out for about two years after I lost my husband and then I got this er awful pain nobody knows unless they have it er this arthritis in my knees , you see , and erm and then I found that it was too much for me to er otherwise I used to walk up to the post box road and I used to count the steps , three hundred and something steps there and three hundred and something back , you see , and to the front door , you see , but I , I ca n't do it now but I have with help and I went out last year with er Mrs and er twice we went to Dulwich which I enjoyed and so did she and the last time we went to and er we had our lunch and we went to see my cousins at West Suffolk and and , and then came home again , you see , and that 's the only time I went out last year and usually I used to go to for a day and I am hoping that if I , I am hoping , well you can only hope , that I might perhaps go so out one Sunday , once , just once in the , you see , because er , th that 's when when you 're old you 've got to keep , you 've got to hope for something
16 Sometimes I found that it was better left off , but equally it could often provide the missing element in certain sounds .
17 Each repeated the other 's remarks and on the couple of occasions that I went there when Sparks were crowded out , I found that it was extremely difficult not to laugh .
18 ‘ I speak on behalf of the Labour Party when I say that it is not , and never has been , the duty or responsibility of either a local or education authority to promote homosexuality ...
19 ‘ I 'm not really inclined to do a post-mortem on ‘ Provision ’ , other than to say that I acknowledge that it was less successful and less fun than the previous album , ’ he says in a most matter-of-fact voice .
20 I suggest that it is not a matter which a man wishes his employer to know about . ’
21 Its daggered gape was even wider , and I imagine that it was even more terrifying .
22 I hope that it is not too perfunctory a way of dealing with this interesting point to say that in my opinion it is comprehensively answered by the judgments in Bishopsgate Investment Management Ltd. v. Maxwell [ 1992 ] 2 W.L.R. 991 which Mr. Rawley , for the defendants , brought to your Lordships ' attention .
23 I hope that it is not too late to provide this .
24 I hope that it is not because the hon. Gentleman has not been called at business questions .
25 I appreciate that it was extremely difficult for you to decide what to do in the circumstances of some hon. Members being unable to get into the House .
26 I confirm that it is not our intention to widen the M25 outside its present curtilage .
27 If therefore certiorari is generally available for error of law not involving abuse of power ( as on the basis of Lord Diplock 's speeches I consider that it is so available ) then it should be available also in respect of a decision of a visitor .
28 I replied that it was not the first time , but that I had borne the previous occasions with courage and would do so now .
29 And I mean it was er I accept that it 's hardly that that Russia perhaps was intervening in the interests of er of of erm of of of of er Russian policy in that area .
30 I accept that it is absolutely essential for smaller publishing companies to be represented here .
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