Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pron] [is] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ What angers me is that they were on a government controlled game reserve and planned it carefully . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | What amazes me is that , in spite of the horrific nature of what I have seen , I feel neither repulsion nor revulsion . |
| 7 | What worries me is that they may break down the wall scrambling over it . |
| 8 | 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 ? ’ |
| 9 | What worries me is that it is not going to end there . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The one thing that worries me is that I do n't think he cares . |
| 12 | The only thing , the only thing that worries me is that the thing gets priority . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ? |
| 15 | ‘ What worries us is that our sales could be affected because fingers of suspicion are being pointed at us . ’ |
| 16 | Cos what normally happens is with tetanus , that the reason it kills you is that you stop breathing because your muscles that work your lungs , the diaphragm , the intercostal muscles between the ribs , those seize up and you just stop breathing . |
| 17 | What happens there is that a ‘ really gay ’ reading of Coward is put into play , much as I have already done with Brief Encounter , but on the grounds that a homosexual writer can only write about homosexuality ( analogous cases would be the insistence that Edward Albee 's Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf is ‘ really ’ about a gay couple , or that Tennessee Williams 's Blanche Dubois is nothing but a transposed drag queen ) . |
| 18 | What Aristotle says there is that the demos would like to be a monarchos , an autocrat , he does not quite say that it is . |
| 19 | ‘ I have seen people badly hurt in the sport , broken arms and fingers , gouged eyes , but when that happens it 's because people are n't doing it right . |
| 20 | She says it 's because the water is pure from the mountain but she does n't really believe it 's just that . |
| 21 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 22 | He says it 's because it makes him look naff , but it 's more than that . |
| 23 | If he makes a bad shot he says it 's because he 's blind but Gary says it 's because his technique is wrong . |
| 24 | If he makes a bad shot he says it 's because he 's blind but Gary says it 's because his technique is wrong . |
| 25 | Lumb says it 's because they do n't have a branch there , but we think it 's solid Labour to look at all the blue posters . |
| 26 | The cynic in me says it is because the larger firms do not do small audits and because abolition would cause problems for the ACCA , which would have more difficulty maintaining an audit regulatory presence as fewer of their members would be auditing . |
| 27 | " Pain is whatever the experiencing person says it is and exists whenever he says it does . " |
| 28 | She thinks she is and Ann do n't know she said I forgot to ask her . |
| 29 | The time that interests me is before he was posted to the aircraft carrier Veinticinco de Mayo , before he became a flier . |
| 30 | What concerns me is that a group of clubs had clandestine meetings . |