Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] be [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I want to know is this — how come a Pakistani hot off the banana boat can get a mortgage when a decent cop with 25 years service in the force can not ? |
| 2 | ‘ Labourer : ‘ What I want to know be this . |
| 3 | The third provision I want to discuss is that of age-related testing . |
| 4 | What I want to ensure is that Computer Services aspirations for Phases 2 and 3 do not cause unnecessary delay or additional cost to an improvement in the Committee Division 's use of computers . |
| 5 | The palaeoenvironments also appear to have been little different from those of the afropithecins , with closed woodland-forest indicated for Fort Ternan , although some authors infer open country or even grassland for this site . |
| 6 | After an appropriate opening , it was addressed by the pope , but so great was the crowd that one reporter could not hear the content of the speech and there appear to have been several fatal accidents in the crush . |
| 7 | ‘ What I want to say is this , there was a misunderstanding . |
| 8 | What I want to say is this . |
| 9 | Or you can do what I have just said , which is , say ‘ I , I 've made a mistake there , I think I 'll do it again , what I want to say is this . ’ |
| 10 | According to Dr George F. Kroker , an allergist working in Wisconsin : ‘ Carbohydrate and/or yeast craving is such a characteristic finding in this disorder that one should seriously doubt the diagnosis of this illness if it is not present . ’ |
| 11 | Erm , it as I say it does n't provide for the the uses we 've just discussed and in my , I do n't want to get too entangled in the statistics of it , the main point I want to make is that |
| 12 | The general point here and I want to make is that er , these are n't officers ' promises these are the members ' promises and er , erm , we 've got to be careful that er when they 're all drawn together that we are n't making a hostage fortune , erm and so that I think it is very important members take aboard er what is suggested and test them themselves to see that they are realistic , I would also say that er as these promises are being considered by the various committees and I note a considerable variation in standards which will need to be addressed when the promises er , have come back to the Policy Committee , these are particularly in reference to the time required to respond to er , erm complaints etc , it 's no use having the Highways Committee wanting two weeks and incidentally on promise number two erm I think that er any up , somebody else 's point er straight forward wants to be deleted , erm the highways require two weeks to respond er , erm hearts and libraries want a , you know half a day , er and we 've got to get these er erm more or less synchronized I think , and whilst I 'm thinking Chairman on the last page er of the er favourite for , for first for agent authorities , but it does n't give any indication about the contact point and as most of our population live in the agent authorities that the er it needs to be expanded to give the contacts er points for the members of the public . |
| 13 | Here , the argument I want to make is more than that critical thought is an important feature of higher education . |
| 14 | The point I want to make is this . |
| 15 | But one point on which all policemen and women seem to agree is that competence is experiential rather than textbook in origin . |
| 16 | What supporters seem to overlook is that football is a game of two sides — one side has to lose otherwise it is a draw . |
| 17 | One is that there seem to have been many years when there was little or no nationally-coordinated resistance . |
| 18 | Nor does there seem to have been any wholesale burning of books and manuscripts . |
| 19 | The earliest deposits of Eurodollars seem to have been those in the Moscow Narodny Bank in London and that of another USSR owned bank in Paris . |
| 20 | Yes , and it stays there unless you , it 's get commissioned is that right ? |
| 21 | What they omit to mention is that substantial progress is now being made in doing exactly this , the production of master inventories for selected groups . |
| 22 | The last I remember thinking was that Syl should marry my mother , his contemporary , and that then perhaps I would have to call him Daddy . |
| 23 | The relational variety is the most important , and the relations that typically get expressed are those between : ( i ) speaker and referent ( e.g. referent honorifics ) ( ii ) speaker and addressee ( e.g. addressee honorifics ) ( iii ) speaker and bystander ( e.g. bystander or audience honorifics ) ( iv ) speaker and setting ( e.g. formality levels ) We can talk of honorifics just where the relation in ( i ) -(iii) concerns relative rank or respect ; but there are many other qualities of relationship that may be grammaticalized , e.g. kinship relations , totemic relations , clan membership , etc. , as made available by the relevant social system . |
| 24 | The point I keep making is that in a press release they ought to include at least enough information briefly so that whoever 's reading it can pick up the angle or the possible use . |
| 25 | Or , you know something like that but you see they what they keep thinking is that erm you know , they do n't to be together you know , on their own and this is the way I think they think . |
| 26 | What I do want is some wine to take back to school tomorrow , oh er I mean |
| 27 | Sleepily goes into spiel about what kind of care would she like , has she chosen a hospital yet , how does she feel generally , this is her first , is n't it , a lot of nonsense talked nowadays about active births and so on , what people fail to realize is that birth is potentially highly dangerous for the mother and the child and that with a bit of foresight and the right equipment it 's possible to etc. , etc. , etc . |
| 28 | What we do know is that ADRK will keep a close eye on all matters concerning the breed . |
| 29 | What we do know is that pre-emption means that no fewer than half the power stations ' fuel markets in England and Wales are entirely removed from the danger of competition . |
| 30 | What we do know is that geological time is awfully long . |