Example sentences of "[pron] [is] that i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The main reason that I am contacting you is that I thought you might be interested to know that John ( stage name Joan Rawson ) was awarded the Eric Rowley Trophy for the artist who has done the most for charity over the last 12 months . |
| 2 | ‘ The reason the police have n't come to question you is that I have n't told them about my suspicions . ’ |
| 3 | The only difference with you is that I used two grains of gunpowder and no oil . |
| 4 | I have two points to make by suggestion : - one is that I think that the final of these related documents should be discretionary I do n't see why you should have to keep the file . |
| 5 | One is that I think in order to overcome some of the objections that that we heard from Leeds yesterday in terms of the erm the urban regeneration policies , that any proposal would would certainly need to be re-relocating from outside the region . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | er the one 's that I choose to make , but I would n't go and ask someone to , to help me with it . |
| 8 | The best thing about him is that I like him . |
| 9 | It 's not so much that , it 's that I prefer my cooking to your cooking . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Because I would think it 's that I had n't given you the |
| 12 | It 's that I do n't want it . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's that I think you 're gay ! |
| 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 | And it it it 's called the fog index but the thing that 's interesting about it is that I 've got , I 've got some interesting examples of fog indexes erm and you 'll get people like Churchill who sometimes made speeches and their fog index is quite small you 're going to use this you know example and they might have a fog , fog index that 's fine and what Anne and I are talking about with say something like the Telegraph or the Times or whatever , might have a fog index that people but this is because Churchill was very clear , very concise and going back to the original point about , or some of the original points about this , and I was mak raising these issues earlier this evening one of the great sadnesses that I have is that , is that when I first went into journalism the tabloids as we call them were incredibly well written beautifully styled , well researched and okay they might have been punchier and shorter and everything else , compared to the turning up the er the , the Times or whatever , but they were well written and you might have had , if you can put the fog index test , test on it you might have had a fog index of say six or seven compared to eleven on the Telegraph story , but it was still full of clarity like to read . |
| 17 | Moreover , different and indeed contradictory things happen to B according to which component of A it is that I choose to measure . |
| 18 | The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives . |
| 19 | ‘ If I have learned anything , ’ she says , ‘ it is that I do n't believe in justice any more . ’ |
| 20 | If it is that I do not , on the grounds that had I heard about the invitation my justification would have been defeated , you have a duty to give some account of why the ( unknown to me ) truth that my wife has refused the invitation does not somehow redress the balance . |
| 21 | ‘ What 's interesting about it is that I have both worlds , because I play with Phil Collins ’ band as well as Genesis , and with Phil I do all the records too . |
| 22 | it is that I have an appointment |
| 23 | If I 'm depressed at all it is that I think that you could make this process slightly less obtrusive and violent and spark-generating if there was more systematic analysis and discussion beforehand , going back a long way . |
| 24 | I mean part of it is what I think and part of it is that I think that I like it because it works , that these things — I basically am unconvinced much of the modern tradition . |
| 25 | As I lie uneasily in the cab , I wonder why it is that I feel propelled to barge in here . |
| 26 | It is that I loved Mama the best … |
| 27 | ‘ The other vital thing for me is that I keep on learning . |
| 28 | I know they are saying ‘ she ca n't sing ’ but the important thing to me is that I know I can . |
| 29 | What annoys me is that I know I saw the damn thing not too long ago ! |
| 30 | It can be a very hard game sometimes , but the most important thing for me is that I 've now got my mind right . |