Example sentences of "[is] [that] i [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking . |
| 2 | I think you 're , you 're often asked to do reactive tasks when I 've done all my tasks , you know I 've got all my staff doing this , and then I 've got to help down on the shopfloor , and it 's not that I 'm doing something that I 'm , you know , I should be doing as a manager , it 's that I 've done all of mine , and I 'm going out to give them a hand . |
| 3 | The point 's that I think is trying to be made is that there are a lot of people here tonight who do wish to express an opinion and that opinion is not necessarily formulated in question form . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's that I think you 're gay ! |
| 5 | er the one 's that I choose to make , but I would n't go and ask someone to , to help me with it . |
| 6 | It 's that I do n't want it . |
| 7 | Good morning , I must say , I I stand before you today somewhat nervous , because erm , this is , this is my first to you as Treasurer , but this will be a slightly different speech from one 's that I have given in previous years . |
| 8 | All I can say is that I doubt I will be asked to join the Lochaber Mountain Rescue Team . |
| 9 | ‘ The problem with casting myself as the male version of Calypso is that I doubt if Ulysses trusted her as far as he could throw her . ’ |
| 10 | The good thing about Sheff Utd ( from SCUMS point of view ) is that I doubt they would go there just to get a draw … they beat SCUM twice last year so might have thought they had a chance . |
| 11 | All that can be said for certain is that I respond to all of it — vixen , trees , plants , birds , the lot — but it does not respond to me . ’ |
| 12 | If you move straight from chapter 5 to chapter 8 you will get a stark contrast between two theories of justification , and all you need to know for the moment is that I take the intervening chapters to provide a reason against any form of foundationalism . |
| 13 | ‘ The simple answer , I suppose , is that I take a look at myself and at the world around me . ’ |
| 14 | But what it is that I measure I do not know . |
| 15 | Thus an instantaneous influence propagates from A to B whose effect depends radically upon exactly what it is that I measure on A. |
| 16 | The upshot of this is that I 've now become a resident , which makes a weekly tour of junk and antique shops even more vital . |
| 17 | ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The main benefit is that I 've enjoyed it ; that 's my yardstick . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The end result is that I 've large arrears on the centre 's mortgage , and now the building society is threatening repossession in the new year , unless we can clear the arrears . |
| 20 | The sad part is that I 've come to hate my body so much , I blame it for everything , and now I ca n't let anyone get close to me , to reassure me . ’ |
| 21 | The result of this strategy is that I 've never missed a plane in twenty-eight years of international travel — except once . |
| 22 | So now I know , but the result is that I 've had two years of injury , followed by two years of doing completely the wrong thing . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Another thing is that I 've started trying to play real tunes , real melodies — straight from the heart , really trying to commit myself . |
| 24 | All I know is that I 've felt a mite sadder every time an indie distributor like Making Waves or Red Rhino have hit the dust . |
| 25 | It can be a very hard game sometimes , but the most important thing for me is that I 've now got my mind right . |
| 26 | Q My problem is that I 've got very bad split ends but if I keep having my hair cut it wo n't grow . |
| 27 | ‘ One thing I 've not been happy with is that I 've played so well during the practices , and whenever I step onto the court for a match there 's a bit missing from what I can do . |
| 28 | I went and told them , ‘ One way or another , what 's happened to me is that I 've been burgled … ’ . |
| 29 | Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One . |
| 30 | If I could just say one other thing , that is that I 've had a an initial of , of the blocks done and pending the outcome of Woolwich which I expect to get tomorrow erm , if they are backing out then I will be getting a full structural , engineers structural survey within a couple of days , this is the actually meeting plan . |