Example sentences of "[pron] be [verb] that the " in BNC.

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1 The festival is the brainchild of performer , director and playwright Cordelia Ditton and freelance arts administrator Dominic D'Angelo , both of whom are determined that the overall tone will be celebratory and upbeat .
2 I am hoping that the Labour Group leader comes back and says : ‘ Prove it . ’
3 I am determined that the highest and most stringent safety requirements should be adhered to , and the regulatory bodies must be satisfied that any work done at Dounreay is carried out to the highest standards .
4 I have never been able to understand why anyone would want to wake up at the dead of night ( 5 a.m. ) to go and paddle a canoe , but I am assured that the challenge is worth it .
5 However , I am discovering that the church probably not the community but more a communion and that 's perhaps an answer to what Nanette ?
6 Mr Brown said : ‘ I am demanding that the Chancellor publish the letter circulating from the Treasury which itself demands that civil servants plan for 2.5 per cent and 5 per cent cuts in their budgets .
7 Essentially , however , I am suggesting that the majority of workers avoid this extreme rebellious position .
8 The reason I am suggesting that the church of Christ lives in this subcultural world is because I want to insist that God 's spiritual family , as well as the human family , has also been radically altered by modernity .
9 I am suggesting that the British crime survey is very important .
10 Indeed , I am persuaded that the central criteria against which I have had to measure these applications will be met , and that patient care will be advanced very considerably .
11 I am informed that the Girobank is not in a position to take a decision about full ownership of the company . ’
12 Going to Maplins shop in Bristol to purchase components to build the Audio Telescope in your April issue I am informed that the Electret insert mic. is not available , a discontinued item .
13 I am informed that the Clarion Cry is the thing to read if one wishes to be in the know . ’
14 I am informed that the contract originally made between our organisation and one Anya the Apostate for demonic occupation and torment of the souls of thirty-three Gittels is now null and void .
15 I am advised that the amendment means that the debate today is confined to the terms of the amendment , which relates to the local council tax .
16 I am advised that the press says that they are but that in practice they are not .
17 But I am saying that the phrase ‘ there occur mental processes ’ does not mean the same sort of thing as ‘ there occur physical processes ’ , and , therefore , that it makes no sense to conjoin or disjoin the two .
18 And it is against the background of this kind of ethnographic experience that I am saying that the recognition of a distinction Natural/Supernatural ( Real/ Imaginary ) is a basic marker of humanity .
19 I am arguing that the process of creating abstractions at the level or shared consciousness — knowledge — is a social process .
20 I am not arguing that there are no uses for a conceptual demarcation of classes quite distinct from the demarcations present within popular ideology — on the contrary , I have used such a demarcation in previous chapters — but I am arguing that the latter demarcations have a real importance and should not be dismissed as merely ‘ subjective ’ .
21 I am told that the Chinese name for them ( the shrub comes from China ) is ‘ cat droppings ’ .
22 ‘ If I am told that the economy is much worse than the Government has said … there 's something wrong with the way things are run in this country .
23 I am told that the tapered polyester bristles have a different shape cross-section to conventional bristles , octagonal in fact .
24 At the end of the public road is a notice prohibiting cars from going further , and I am told that the new owners of the Killilan estate are enforcing this ban fairly strictly but not in all cases .
25 I am told that the authority is not answering the telephone and that is not good enough .
26 I am told that the same considerations of constituency difficulty , demography and geography would apply to rearranging the constituencies within Scotland .
27 I am told that the Under-Secretary of State gave an undertaking in the House of Commons that steps would be taken to warn claimants about the possible loss of benefits .
28 As a devotee of Alsace ( the villages may be chocolate-boxy but the food is wonderful and the hotels unbelievably cheap ) , I am encouraged that the wines are finally gaining due recognition .
29 I am saddened that the article uses the spurious connection between dialect and poverty as a means of attacking English teaching in this country .
30 So I am pleading that the panel really take a great deal of effort in this leaflet so that it is going to be easily understood by even the people who are less well educated than some of us .
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