Example sentences of "[is] [conj] i [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The result is that I rarely hear students chatting about science — it would simply take too long to formulate a question and answer .
2 All that I am saying is that I strongly suspect that those periodic catastrophes make more showing in the stratigraphical record than we have hitherto assumed .
3 I think I think the only thing that I would disagree with there is that I strongly suspect that a lot of tutors in the university , not just women tutors but across the board , really have little idea of the level of sexual harassment that students that female students have identified as being problem in the questionnaire .
4 The reason I want to learn ISL is that I often go to Dublin and feel ashamed of my inability to communicate .
5 One is that I often stay at a first-class hotel to merge into the background .
6 But what 's really scary is that I often lie there for an age afterwards thinking , ‘ Just what will I do , if this dream should ever come true ? ’
7 The worst of it all to me is that I never guessed anything .
8 The funny thing is that I never expected to be an artist .
9 The plain truth is that I once twisted my knee after falling down a ridiculously narrow flight of stairs at a crowded party in a terraced house in Highgate , and I found it so comforting and indeed so peculiarly elegant to lean on a good stout walking stick during the weeks that followed this mishap that I continued to do so long after my leg had returned to normal .
10 I think basically what I 'd like to say today is that I personally agree with what Ida 's saying that it is an attack on the Health Service , and it is the greatest achievement that the Labour Party has done in history in my opinion .
11 What I will tell you , and I will tell for the very first time , is that I personally dealt with people whose future may well have been considered under the terms of the AMO .
12 My main subsequent regret is that I only knew my father from the perspective of parent to child and not from that of adult ( parent ) to adult ( son ) whence different qualities and traits of personality come to be appreciated .
13 What 's important is that I still go on working with old friends like Ian McDiarmid at small theatres like the Almeida . ’
14 The scary thing is that I hardly know him .
15 The reason that I put code four , is if I just put labels on the list , I know that I can not complete that task today .
16 ‘ I tell you , I do n't know who he is and I never saw him . ’
17 N , that is not on religious grounds either that is because I just think that they work six days they should have a day off anyway .
18 For me , it is because I only have half of that .
19 The reason I have chosen these two books for a comparison is because I always prefer to read books that are either true or close to reality as they bring out more emotions in my reading and at leat I know my feelings towards certain situations in the books have been felt by someone before , whether it may be another reader or the character himself , but in more depth .
20 Er , I 'm a little bit out of touch , so , i if I sound hesitant it 's because I simply do n't know how much debate has been taking place , and how , systematised the relationships are going to be in the future .
21 And that 's because I still get to you . ’
22 ‘ That 's because I usually cut it myself , ’ grinned Yurk , ‘ and I 'm a ballet dancer , not a hairdresser . ’
23 It 's because I never had no shoes till I was three .
24 It 's because I never see anyone else .
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