Example sentences of "i [be] [verb] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All I am hoping is that it was n't the boy friend you 're meeting tomorrow evening . ’ |
| 2 | What I am advising is that you consider acquiring some well-proven software ( I can recommend PC-Tools or the Norton Utilities , for instance ) for the occasions when a little home diagnosis is required , and learn how to use it . |
| 3 | The only reason that I am speaking is that I do not believe that the guillotine motion has anything to do with speeding up the Education ( Schools ) Bill because time was being wasted . |
| 4 | I have been talking about experiences which affect both men and women ; what I am suggesting is that the role of the Weaving Mother is to spin a thread , a bond , from the ‘ raw material ’ proffered by the male . |
| 5 | What I am suggesting is that both my aunt 's remark and her attitude stemmed from assumptions already prevalent within the family as to what was appropriate behaviour . |
| 6 | What I am suggesting is that you should not underrate your ability to succeed in what is now a highly competitive market place . |
| 7 | What I am suggesting is that if education is for all then it must meet all needs . |
| 8 | All I am suggesting is that the balancing exercise should be capable of being performed . |
| 9 | What I am suggesting is that this use of ultra simple " binary logic " , which is tied in with the way we recognize speech sounds , is an inbuilt feature of our psychological make-up which distinguishes us as human beings . |
| 10 | What I am suggesting is that Spenser 's texts offer glimpses of issues which Elizabethan culture found awkward to confront directly — a belief in the precariousness of its civilisation given the existence of savagery ( exemplified by other customs , baser classes , other religions ) confronting a self-defined orderly minority . |
| 11 | So what I am suggesting is that you do n't accept this resolution and you accept a modified or amended version of it . |
| 12 | What I am suggesting is that I think if you if you concentrate only on the question of who are the chief officers that 's very important and that 's very indicative , but it 's not the whole story . |
| 13 | But when you called I was teaching , and the rule when I am teaching is that one of my sons must answer the phone . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The point I am making is that Paul is not the only young player around with that confidence . |
| 18 | The point that I am making is that the argument is not one of Sunday trading , but one of law and order , with the Conservative party ranged firmly among the enemies of law and order . |
| 19 | So the point I am making is that terms like reproductive success are purely quantitative , they 're wholly objective and scientific . |
| 20 | MORRIS L.J. : It seems to me , therefore , that the father was saying , in effect : Irrespective of what may be the strict legal position , what I am asking is that you shall prove that the child will be well looked after and happy , and also that you must agree that the child is to be allowed to decide for herself whether or not she wishes to come and live with you . |
| 21 | What I am saying is that a lot of the common English objections to Ezra Pound have substance , and would be worth taking seriously , if only we could be sure that they were advanced in good faith , in humility , and with compassion . |
| 22 | What I am saying is that it is never too late to reformulate your goals : do n't give up and just accept your lot as if it were a sentence handed out by life . |
| 23 | All I am saying is that it was n't possible for me . |
| 24 | nor reproduc duc tu tu tology , but what I am saying is that secrets store up trouble , and when doctors are |
| 25 | I do not mean to imply that the biochemistry is primary , or any more fundamental in the reductionist sense than the physiology ; what I am saying is that changed biochemistry translates into changed physiology just as it does into changed behaviour . |
| 26 | What I am saying is that Mills was one of the MI6 officers with responsibility for WIN . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | So I 'm not saying th th that there are n't these th the important other inputs , but , but what I am saying is that if you ask yourself where the kind of gene behaviour interface really exists is clearly in the human er in , in the human mind and it may be that the basic kind of parameters erm have , have been set for our emotions and I really do n't see how we can change those . |
| 29 | But what I am saying is that the that the side |
| 30 | Well what I am saying is that I do n't think it is his primary concern . |