Example sentences of "[pers pn] [be] [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the range of benefits to which the elderly and those caring for them are entitled is still inadequate to meet every need , it is wider than some realise . |
| 2 | All I am hoping is that it was n't the boy friend you 're meeting tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 3 | Certainly no American text of the sort I am discussing was ever written for black people — no more than Uncle Tom 's Cabin was written for Uncle Tom to read or be persuaded by . |
| 4 | ‘ Situations ’ , Elizabeth wrote , ‘ I have sometimes taken from life , as a jumping-off point : but imagining myself into another world , using the eyes of the people I am creating is what my writing has chiefly been about . ’ |
| 5 | What I am advising is that you consider acquiring some well-proven software ( I can recommend PC-Tools or the Norton Utilities , for instance ) for the occasions when a little home diagnosis is required , and learn how to use it . |
| 6 | It is them that I am appealing to somebody because of the erm the the th thought transference that I am using is feeling now compelled to pick up the phone O nine O four six four one six four one . |
| 7 | What I am advocating is balanced view of your own work and a more sensible approach to its shortcomings . |
| 8 | The related themes I am pursuing are difficult to keep apart , and really require a contrapuntal or fugal exposition . |
| 9 | In The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , John Fowles ( or a version of him ) intrudes famously — or notoriously — into chapter thirteen to discuss his tactics and emphasize that ‘ this story I am telling is all imagination . |
| 10 | According to that document , non-fundholding practices such as the one to which I am referring were entitled to reimbursement of computer costs from April 1990 . |
| 11 | Many of the men are black or half-caste descendants of freed Saharan slaves and I feel that what I am watching is not Islamic at root but a practice brought by their ancestors and grafted on to the religion . |
| 12 | It is easy to pretend that the values and standard of behaviour about which I am speaking are genteel or middle class . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What I am suggesting is that introspective reports , while often providing helpful qualitative information , can never be reliable enough to use as quantitative data defining the presence or absence of conscious awareness . |
| 15 | What I am suggesting is a more subtle movement between the two . |
| 16 | I have been talking about experiences which affect both men and women ; what I am suggesting is that the role of the Weaving Mother is to spin a thread , a bond , from the ‘ raw material ’ proffered by the male . |
| 17 | What I am suggesting is that both my aunt 's remark and her attitude stemmed from assumptions already prevalent within the family as to what was appropriate behaviour . |
| 18 | What I am suggesting is that you should not underrate your ability to succeed in what is now a highly competitive market place . |
| 19 | What I am suggesting is that if education is for all then it must meet all needs . |
| 20 | All I am suggesting is that the balancing exercise should be capable of being performed . |
| 21 | What I am suggesting is that this use of ultra simple " binary logic " , which is tied in with the way we recognize speech sounds , is an inbuilt feature of our psychological make-up which distinguishes us as human beings . |
| 22 | What I am suggesting is that Spenser 's texts offer glimpses of issues which Elizabethan culture found awkward to confront directly — a belief in the precariousness of its civilisation given the existence of savagery ( exemplified by other customs , baser classes , other religions ) confronting a self-defined orderly minority . |
| 23 | What I am suggesting is you knew there was an armed man in the flat , you were worried he was under the bed and if only concern was to get that bed up and over to check he was n't there , you did n't bother to wait to get Julie off it . |
| 24 | So what I am suggesting is that you do n't accept this resolution and you accept a modified or amended version of it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | What I am expressing is a tentative belief that it is raining , not the belief ( or awareness of the fact ) that I believe that it is raining . |
| 27 | But when you called I was teaching , and the rule when I am teaching is that one of my sons must answer the phone . |
| 28 | What I am doing is leaving that literature to one side and considering factors that have been found to affect performance at work . |
| 29 | Erm but one of the things that I am doing is over the next quarter with , various people begin to review the cleaning schedules of what they actually do , whether we clean them on a on a more frequent basis rather than just responding that particular area . |
| 30 | I should be feeling disloyal to Fergus , I should certainly be wondering if what I am doing is right , and if I am going to be hurt . |