Example sentences of "that i [be] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading IT Division in the 1990's is a challenge , but one that I am looking forward to enormously . |
| 2 | ‘ Not that I am looking forward to parting with Serena , of course , ’ she said mournfully . |
| 3 | He said last night : ‘ I have had complaints from my family and the medical people that I am getting too impatient . |
| 4 | Suppose that I point at a chair and say ‘ By ‘ chair ’ I mean that ’ , nothing in what I have done creates the desired meaning for the word ‘ chair ’ unless I can further characterise what it is about the object I am pointing to that I am taking as relevant ; for example , I might say ‘ that sort of furniture ’ , and this would improve matters , but I have to have the concept of furniture first . |
| 5 | ( It may be objected that I am taking far too earnest a view of a wonderfully comic fictional character . |
| 6 | At moments all is well , and then at others I think that I am flying apart . |
| 7 | In parenthesis I should say that I am passing quickly over the significance of these four levels of understanding . |
| 8 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 9 | You had to think of a method and the method was particularly difficult , I think , on the tank farm one where this is the sort of method that I am thinking here of how , how on earth am I going to build it on , on the hotel ? |
| 10 | But the point about the evaluation of materials is that it can not be carried out in dissociation from the contexts of particular classrooms : it must be part of the process of self-monitoring mediation that I am advocating here . |
| 11 | ‘ It is because of you that I am living here in peace . |
| 12 | I realize that I am standing just as Summerchild stood that other night , when I saw him gazing with such intensity into his own life . |
| 13 | In order to sustain the argument that I am putting forward here , it is important to establish what were the major arguments levelled by anthropologists and others against the ‘ great divide ’ theory . |
| 14 | The model of pragmatic mediation that I am proposing here is designed to meet that need . |
| 15 | Now it might be objected that I am talking here about language knowledge and not communicative behaviour , about how grammar might be learned and not about the development of a language using ability . |
| 16 | ‘ Sometimes I feel that I am imprisoned there . |
| 17 | When I first began the work that I am doing now , I decided to keep an open mind about the topic ; but , as time has progressed , I have been able to record details of fact , time and place given to me by my patients which have later been checked and confirmed and found to be wholly accurate . |
| 18 | It should be noted that I am concentrating here on ‘ further treatment ’ and therefore assume a pre-existing relationship between the doctor and the patient . |
| 19 | ( There are a number of control questions that I am omitting here . ) |
| 20 | Like all our previous trade union legislation , the proposals that I am announcing today have two main objectives — first , to safeguard the democratic rights of trade union members within their unions and , secondly , to protect employees , employers and the community at large against the abuse of industrial power . |
| 21 | It is perfectly true that some of the things that I am saying today I have said before ; that is because they are true . |
| 22 | When I was assigned to investigate Ruggiero 's kidnapping , Pietro made a statement to the press drawing attention to my lack of experience and my political views and demanding that I be replaced immediately . |
| 23 | ‘ Oh , no , I was only teasing , and I really only came in to tell you that I 'm leaving tomorrow , and to thank you for being so kind , and — well , to say goodbye . |
| 24 | I know I 've had something quite unique happen to me and I 'm just very glad that I 'm leaving here so well . |
| 25 | pretend that I 'm kissing alright then |
| 26 | Otherwise I 'll nibble on fruit or something to convince myself that I 'm eating well ! |
| 27 | Well do you know , when I met , I , I 'm meeting old chaps through this very excellent marriage agency , I 've never expected any thing like it , they are marvellous , and the sent me a nice old lad , but I knew I was onto a looser when he said , of course I go to my daughter-in-law every Saturday for lunch , she absolutely insists because she says , she wants to make sure that I 'm eating properly , now this is a very healthy old man with a very good income who could afford to buy any food he wants and the fact of the matter is his that he 's son is probably not , he does n't want to upset his old dad , and it 's handy to have him to come on Saturday for lunch and be done with it as it were , but I thought surely Bernard your own sense would tell you that nobody want 's their old father and father-in-law every Saturday of their life , for lunch oh . |
| 28 | ‘ But please do n't believe that I 'm pining away for the lack of a man in my life . |
| 29 | He was going to leave it tonight it just so happens that I 'm courting tonight |
| 30 | ‘ Now that I 'm earning again , I want to invest in some good quality , classic outfits , ’ said Pamela , whose standard work clothes were drab navy skirts teamed with various coloured blouses . |