Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [prep] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing that I object to is that many old people and the disabled relied on taxis to get them into that area , and I would say that Hackney Carriage vehicles should be allowed in . |
| 2 | I know nothing about his treatment of women ; erm all I know about is that he chose not to elect a woman to the cabinet . |
| 3 | It has become apparent on some of the issues , some of the comments that we made that was if I could call it the you 'll know what we 're talking about and I do n't if we are talking about the there was there was a point somewhere where talked about ing an increase or short of journey time along the ring road and this has been taken as I understand to be that we are setting out an increase of speed er traffic on the sections of road to a junction and that 's totally in force and it was either . |
| 4 | Yeah , I thought of being that once but I would n't mind it in the wards , but I would n't want to be in the operating theatre , I do n't know why , the blood do n't put me off or anything , but |
| 5 | You know , I thought of being that once but I would n't mind it in the wards , but I would n't wan na be in the operating theatre . |
| 6 | The first thing I thought of was that we 'd offended them in some way we did n't know — done a terrible insult to their gods or something . |
| 7 | The only thing I care about is that I 've got to share a cell with you . |
| 8 | There comes a point where you have to say , ‘ I do n't care about the model , all I care about is that I 'm painting . ’ |
| 9 | Because wh when , when we were looking at , at , at the I mean sort of things the implication to me seemed to be that , that this in itself is a successful policy , rent reduction , interest rate reduction methods improving er productivity , increasing input , in themselves are satisfying the demands of the peasantry and you would not need to go beyond that , I mean well did n't need to , he is n't the ideal , but he did n't need to go and he , he was doing very well out of it . |
| 10 | Now when you moved to was that a kind different kind of work obviously you were doing a wee bit more variety . |
| 11 | The reason the farmer at Ben More has put up the sign you talk about is that he has been particularly troubled by dog owners who ca n't control their animals . |
| 12 | The only difference is that , the fewer roses you have space for , the more certain you have to be that the varieties you grow give the greatest possible pleasure , for the longest possible period and with the most resistance against pest and disease . |
| 13 | HOWEVER confident we pretend to be that the Conservatives will be returned with a majority of at least 25 , we must accept the possibility that this gesticulating Welsh oaf will hold centre-stage until such time as the economy , public order and constitution collapse about his ears . |
| 14 | He said this did not amount to a demand for a right of veto : ‘ The principle we stick to is that the PLO will be totally out of the picture . ’ |
| 15 | He used a lot of abstruse terms like " cricoid " but what it amounted to was that she had been strangled . |
| 16 | So it has to be that the load shifted backwards . |
| 17 | It 's as , what I 'm looking for is that the people who tick it off as being okay know what they are looking for , and that maybe that it 's the right number of boxes , it might be it 's the right grade of paper , whatever it happens to be that , that , if they tick it to say it 's right , then that 's what , that they have checked in some way . |
| 18 | And so it came to be that the bewitching gesture of her father 's secretary walking down the golden path ( which bewitched me when I saw the woman in the swimsuit take leave of the lifeguard ) had completely gone to sleep in her . |
| 19 | it it came to be that it was the older men usually that were asked to do it I mean the people I suppose maybe felt it was more suitable to have older folk coming in to their houses . |
| 20 | But the gist of it seemed to be that there should be an early , and preferably unpleasant , end to the miserable life of the blasphemer and pig-fancier , Wilson . |
| 21 | You know it seemed to be that we had a working rule that had functioned reasonably well over the years and all of a sudden he was tearing up various paragraphs that did n't suit him , and altering bits you know and changing them round just to suit the company , and all to our disadvantage . |
| 22 | gentleman came to this house it seemed to be that he challenged the establishment and many of us welcomes that view it seemed to give a breath of fresh air , but now it seems to me that he 's become entirely institutionalised , can he explain that to the house ? |
| 23 | What it amounts to is that the weak choice is just as valid as the hard choice provided the tracks are examined on their merits , not in terms of weakness or laziness . |
| 24 | It 's all classified , but what it amounts to is that we wo n't play the Great Game over here and they wo n't play it in the UK . |
| 25 | Maybe three lads to the drawings and maybe two lads to do the calculations , whereas it would be slightly in the bridge office or the works office because of the present resource availability , it tends to be that you only have a smaller number of people doing , doing those tasks . |
| 26 | I doubt very much whether we 'll have a score on that because it tends to be that we do n't find out what happens in Italy until er the following morning . |
| 27 | It appears to be that the generally unskilled nature of the labour force helps to determine that the processes of UK industry are , by present international standards , relatively simple and low productivity ones ; the country is locked into comparatively simple technology because it does not have the technical expertise to use technology to the fullest effect . |
| 28 | It appears to be that an agency which has an explicit power or duty to achieve a certain end , ( e.g. good race relations ) , can not exercise it in such a way as to disadvantage a person , unless that person has committed an independent breach of the common law or statute . |
| 29 | It appears to be that it 's off the rails |
| 30 | But once you got well into the business of the removal , y one forgets , you see , and you forget exactly what you 're carrying or what it appears to be that you 're carrying . |