Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] be [that] " 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 | But one incident that amused me was that I was booked for a coffee commercial and the producer phoned me up the night before the session to let me know the track we were doing , because he said he wanted to get it as close to the original as he possibly could . |
| 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 | What amazes me is that , in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen , I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion . |
| 12 | What worries me is that they may break down the wall scrambling over it . |
| 13 | 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 ? ’ |
| 14 | What worries me is that it is not going to end there . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ The one thing that worries me is that I do n't think he cares . |
| 17 | The only thing , the only thing that worries me is that the thing gets priority . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | can promise you is that commissions awarded on basis of competition , we were looking for quality , we invited bids , we |
| 22 | One of the accusations used and levelled against er against Christianity against the , the evangelical message , against things like the , the mission of Graham and , and others is that it , it does n't meet the needs the , the material needs of people but if you deal with the persons spiritual needs , if their sins are forgiven , those problems that are causing the material problem , it 's amazing how there are dealt with as well , the best way to sober up a person , the best way to deal with a person who 's an alcoholic , the best way to deal with a person who is a drug addict , the best way to deal with a person who , who commits adultery is not by telling them the wrongs of those things , it 's not by trying to , to , to do , to , to , you know , to , to counsel them it 's presenting the gospel allowing Jesus Christ to come into their lives and to forgive them , that will make the person sober quicker than all the counselling in the world and Paul says I brought you the most important the fundamental thing , that Christ died for our sins Paul again when he 's writing to the Romans in chapter five and verse eight he says but God demonstrates his own love towards us , in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us so God did in Jesus Christ what we could n't do for ourselves , so all of you have sin , so all of my sin , and he came and he died on the cross and as he was dying there was that transmit there , for he was n't dying for his own sin buy he was dying for your sin and for mine , it was all piled on him and so when we except what Christ has done , when we come to that place and yes I believe that you died for me , |
| 23 | The only thing that stopped him was that he could n't decide exactly what the problem was . |
| 24 | And her only reason for distrusting him was that she distrusted Alexander , a feeling almost certainly shared by the majority of people who had ever met him . |
| 25 | ‘ But why I mentioned her was that I heard by chance that she has married again . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Without for one moment implying any impropriety , this last episode demonstrates how deliciously appropriate it is that Mr Wyatt should subsequently have struck up such a warm friendship with the world 's foremost collector of air miles . |
| 28 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 29 | ‘ What worries us is that our sales could be affected because fingers of suspicion are being pointed at us . ’ |
| 30 | the reason the world does n't know us is that it did not know him . |