Example sentences of "i [verb] [verb] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But let me make it immediately clear what I mean by this ; what I mean to say is that Miss Kenton 's letter set off a certain chain of ideas to do with professional matters here at Darlington Hall , and I would underline that it was a preoccupation with these very same professional matters that led me to consider anew my employer 's kindly meant suggestion . |
| 2 | What I failed to realise was that to those who never walk up mountains , visiting the bank , the post office and the dry cleaners on the same day is considered a triathlon . |
| 3 | ‘ People asked me and Derrick what we were doing over the past two years and the answer that I want to give is that we were waiting for everybody to catch up . |
| 4 | One of the things I want to argue is that in order to construct certain exemplary models of antiracist policy and practice it has been necessary to operate in terms of a reductive representation of racism , one which not only scales down its reality , but ignores its more complex features . |
| 5 | The final thing I want to say is that , standing in this College , I urge you to support the work of the creche which is here in Rupert Stanley . |
| 6 | The catalogue might be extended almost indefinitely , but the point that I want to emphasize is that , for the most part , these distinctive features of our own way of life are not of our own making . |
| 7 | However what I want to emphasize is that Residents ' Association 's case is not does not rely on an inner northern route acting as a an alternative to a western rel route . |
| 8 | The only thing I want to hear is that they 've called it off . |
| 9 | So what I want to suggest is that the second two categories I 've mentioned , that 's the vocal channel and the body language channel can actually be very important in communication . |
| 10 | The point I want to make is that in most cases they could not . |
| 11 | The main point I want to make is that the only justification for treating the sick and injured wild animal is to be able eventually to restore it to its wild existence . |
| 12 | The main point I want to make is that , looked at from the perspective of an individual teacher 's working life , this kind of action constitutes one very important strategy within a whole repertoire of ways of improving their pleasure and satisfaction in the job . |
| 13 | The point I want to make is that racists are racists , with or without the exposure of genital mutilation . |
| 14 | The second general point I want to make is that there is no single right way to use this thing . |
| 15 | But the point that I want to make is that there is a bus stop either side of erm well , one in Morrell Avenue and one in erm just in the junction of Warneford Lane . |
| 16 | All reports I 'd heard were that Sterland would be fit by now . |
| 17 | What I hope to show is that the attacks on the reality and irreducibility of both subjective experience and thought leave one with no contentful conception of the world . |
| 18 | What seemed to me most significant about the period I chose to study was that this was the moment of transition between the Middle Ages and the Renaissance , a transition which could best be observed and studied in drawing , which lends itself to greater experimentation . |
| 19 | The reason I went into physics and what I try to inculcate is that the ideas themselves are interesting and that seems to me to be the main justification for it , so that when people try and justify scientific research by saying it 's good for the economy , the country and so on , or who knows what applications are going to come of it , I 'm inclined to sit rather quietly when that 's said because I 'm not convinced that some of the research that is done nowadays can have any practical application at all in that direct sense . |
| 20 | ‘ The thing that most impresses me and most encourages my students when I use Streamline is that Streamline is an audiovisual course . |
| 21 | What I do stress is that the judge should approach the exercise of the discretion with a predilection to give effect to the child 's wishes on the basis that prima facie that will be in his or her best interests . |
| 22 | What I do mean is that although most women do hope for a happy and loving relationship with their husbands , the attainment of this is not the purpose of marriage . |
| 23 | What I do know is that it is disgraceful and defamatory to label as stooges the people from the Borough Community Relations Council who gave up a day 's work to act as observers , and who have made it clear that they would have reported whatever they had seen , good or bad for police . |
| 24 | WHAT I do know is that people like Havel have been getting a little impatient with those relishing pieces appearing lately in the American press that say , roughly : ‘ Right , you guys over there have had your romantic Ruritanian fun and games with revolution and dancing in the streets . |
| 25 | I do n't know what my future style will be but the one thing I do know is that I will keep on changing . ’ |
| 26 | The only thing I do know is that something must be done to get her away from here … anywhere . ’ |
| 27 | What I do know is that , faced with cancer , the desire for solitude was somewhat tempered . |
| 28 | What I do know is that we owe a great debt to these doughty fighters of the past in banishing the menace of the Krooms for ever from this green and pleasant land . |
| 29 | What my source was up to , I have no idea ; all I do know is that while the world was waiting to discover how Mrs Thatcher was ever going to be toppled , the most unlikely possibility was that she might admit she had been wrong about something and ask for her P45 without more ado . |
| 30 | What I do know is that The Da completely missed the point , as usual . |