Example sentences of "[noun sg] i be [verb] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In The French Lieutenant 's Woman ( 1969 ) , John Fowles ( or a version of him ) intrudes famously — or notoriously — into chapter thirteen to discuss his tactics and emphasize that ‘ this story I am telling is all imagination . |
| 2 | Sometimes if you 've made a mistake and the parallel I 'm drawing is with the Jewish community in Jesus time . |
| 3 | the amount of money I 'm getting is inadequate , I 'm not getting it made up in Income Support , please help . |
| 4 | So the question I am wondering is this : does the person Albie owed money to — the man behind Vinnie Dirkin — know who it was that killed him ? |
| 5 | Now in a sense erm the question I 'm asking is by introducing lots of modern machinery , you could perhaps kill a particular trade or craftsmanship in a whole group of people which may , in fact , be their key for erm future survival |
| 6 | You think the post I 'm offering is too demanding ? ’ |
| 7 | The point I am making is that , from the viewpoint of scholarship , fundamentalism is dead , but it wo n't lie down at the grass roots level . |
| 8 | Even more relevant to the point I am making is the sudden realisation that this , as the name implies , is really a United Kingdom : a composite and diverse , not a monolithic structure And above all the discovery that there are parts of the UK which share with them a history of colonial or quasi-colonial exploitation , and where people speak of development problems in a language they understand . |
| 9 | The non-trivial point I am making is that the difference is not in the presence of an additional reason for action , but in the existence of a pre-emptive reason . |
| 10 | The point I am making is that pedagogic research calls for the independent appraisal of ideas as a precondition to their application . |
| 11 | The point I am making is that Poland was like some living body that had all the life blood sucked out of it at the end of the war . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The point I am making is that Paul is not the only young player around with that confidence . |
| 13 | So the point I am making is that terms like reproductive success are purely quantitative , they 're wholly objective and scientific . |
| 14 | The basic point I am making is I , you know , and this is quite unfair . |
| 15 | The point I 'm making is that you ca n't just interchange the words ‘ black ’ music and ‘ disco ’ music . |
| 16 | but the point I 'm making is that up to the end of giving you advice it is perfectly free there is no charge on you whatsoever . |
| 17 | Look s s seriously the point the point I 'm making is that for for most jobs of an average sort of size , what happens under A C E scale fees as I understand it , if I 'm wrong I 'm I stand corrected . |
| 18 | So the point I 'm making is that offspring will be prepared to make sacrifices under those conditions , where erm , the R is greater than C. But parents will want offspring to make sacrifices , wherever B is greater than C , and the parent is not concerned with the discount parameter R , but agreed on relatedness , because parents are equally related through their offspring . |
| 19 | The point I 'm making is that both extracts are written in English . |
| 20 | The point I 'm making is that in fact erm a woman 's reproductive system discriminates actively . |
| 21 | But the , the link between sex and reproduction is always likely to be more critical to a woman So , so , so you see th th the point I 'm making is these insights seem to me to be to have a kind of relevance to er women 's experience of sex that is some ways greater than it is to male males can you know once they 've done their fertilizing work , they 're , they 're really through as far as erm as far as biology is concerned , not perhaps as far as social . |
| 22 | And what happens is that if an embryo has the single gene for being male , it happens to have a white chromosome not surprisingly , it turns on thousands of other genes that then make the embryo into a male , but , but that single gene has to be there to act as a switch and that 's that gene is also present in alligators and crocodiles so the point I 'm making is it is just wrong to say that , that all these discoveries about genetics cut no ice with human evolution , because human things can not be influenced by single genes . |
| 23 | But erm , the , so although he , he , the point I 'm making is although it was who says he mentioned symbolism , or became aware of it , it 's er , it does n't conflict with the point th that , that we were making earlier , that the only person who can interpret their dreams is the dreamer ultimately . |
| 24 | And so the point I 'm making is that , is that a modern insight into Darwinian evolution is based on a wholly scientific basis and social Darwinism may have got Darwinism a bad name by associating it with slogans like survival of the fittest , but modern Darwinism er is n't like that . |
| 25 | Erm but the the point I 'm making is that existing figures erm for the existing sorry the figures for the existing structure plan indicate that there 's been an overshoot on agreed figures . |
| 26 | Okay Linfield and Bangor are probably two of the best teams in Irish football but the point I 'm making is that Carrick 's team deficiencies were blatantly exposed for all to see . |
| 27 | Yeah but the point I 'm making is that you thought that would happen then . |
| 28 | The serious point I 'm making is that , too often , in schools , the kind of questions are focused on just what is least interesting , not the , people 's attitude to witches , or to their bodies , or their attitudes to women , to children , all these things which are now considered part of the historian 's province , but instead we get saddled with the Treaty of Uncia Scolesi and the Repeal of the Corn Laws , and this is worrying . |
| 29 | Erm a and the , the person I was playing is a friend of mine , he does do a lot of flying |
| 30 | There were laughs and cheers at the end when the character I was playing is running to the church . |