Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One thing that doing the talk show has taught me is that people hear what they expect to hear . |
| 2 | ‘ One thing these workless weeks in Venice have taught me is that I need my profession . |
| 3 | The Americans tried to do it in Panama , what disgusts me is that these are the pictures that sold , the ones done when there was no more opposition . |
| 4 | No I tell you why I chucked them is because they 're a better make are n't they , K P ? |
| 5 | The first thing I said to the commissioning editors when I met them is that I would not commission one programme . |
| 6 | The problem with using them is that they may produce a self-fulfilling prophecy . |
| 7 | ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully . |
| 8 | ‘ However , what upsets me is that I have heard unconfirmed rumours that some of the riders were threatening to pull out if I were put in the third row of the grid as was at first planned . |
| 9 | What impresses me is that when the causes of this ancient conflict have been forgotten , except by those who have made a study of it , this monument remains , crudely chiselled and doubtless seldom visited , testament to three modest souls who died for what they believed in and who are otherwise lost to history . |
| 10 | What astonishes me is that the whole subject of injury from radiation seems to have been treated at the time with a casualness that approaches imbecility . |
| 11 | The only way people will trust me is if I give them a signed piece of paper with my address on . ’ |
| 12 | What amazes me is that , in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen , I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion . |
| 13 | What worries me is that they may break down the wall scrambling over it . |
| 14 | But what worries me is that , since middle age has been put to fright , will old age descend overnight like a sudden frost on the dew ? ’ |
| 15 | What worries me is that it is not going to end there . |
| 16 | I 'm no expert , but what worries me is that , when you 're dealing with madmen , they increase their demands at the slightest sign of weakness . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The one thing that worries me is that I do n't think he cares . |
| 18 | The only thing , the only thing that worries me is that the thing gets priority . |
| 19 | Now the thing that worries me is that the N R A and our linkage with them is I do n't think it 's early days for them and they have n't got the the power and the erm law behind them to enforce it as the way which I think most of us would like to think of have a erm erm an organization tha that can in fact start bringing the law in that if people fail to do what they say erm so that aspect I think I now Chris also mentioned this erm tilting in West Sussex and again that mentioned in the structure plan , because I six mill a year but in ten years that 's two and a half inches . |
| 20 | But I think there is I mean something that ought to be mentioned one of the things that worries me is that there is n't here today a man of the type that I meet every day in Oxford who says ‘ sexual harassment ? |
| 21 | Erm , this is something that I 've spoken with about over a long period and what really has concerned me is that we 've two red signals , both facing the traffic and children and blind people could be crossing thinking the traffic had held up , and when I or detecting we rely on our own engineers maybe going round that way , maybe the police or public reporting it . |
| 22 | Oh she 's do you know she 's and she 'll do as she , she 'll do as she pleases . |
| 23 | We still fall well short of that , I mean er it 's bad news that anyone is addicted to drugs but what is important is that we should actually know who is and so we can help them . |
| 24 | can promise you is that commissions awarded on basis of competition , we were looking for quality , we invited bids , we |
| 25 | The evidence on which I base it is that , within three weeks of the White Paper being introduced in the middle of this year , there were 15 announcements of changes to the proposals now in the legislation . |
| 26 | ‘ I expect it 's because he 's a clergyman , or was , miss . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ I expect it 's because you 're my stepbrother , ’ Jenna said sarcastically . |
| 28 | ‘ I expect it 's because I 'm writing and it takes longer , ’ Maggie confessed with a shrug . |
| 29 | Officials say it is because the two sides have different versions of what was decided at the previous negotiations that the ceasefire has broken down . |
| 30 | Some say it is because no boat people have been returned home against their will since December 1989 . |