Example sentences of "is [conj] i [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | What I mean is that I 've finally been forced to admit that the large-animal side of veterinary practice is still controlled by men . |
2 | Part of the problem is that I 've already been through all this pregnancy stuff with Wife Number One . |
3 | The upshot of this is that I 've now become a resident , which makes a weekly tour of junk and antique shops even more vital . |
4 | It can be a very hard game sometimes , but the most important thing for me is that I 've now got my mind right . |
5 | The result of this strategy is that I 've never missed a plane in twenty-eight years of international travel — except once . |
6 | Yes , but the difference is that I 've never seen those houses but I have , I can see those . |
7 | For what is being suggested is that I knew today and not yesterday , despite the fact that there was no difference between the two days that I could tell at the time . |
8 | What , what you 're saying is that I mean broadly this is , is quite an incentive based system , at least on the face of it |
9 | The fact is that I had already begun to give serious consideration to the possibility of doing away with Dennis Parsons . |
10 | The fact is that I had never seen it , or known what I was seeing , until that day : … |
11 | ‘ The thing I remember about my first visit is that I had never sung so much before . |
12 | ‘ The truth is that I had never even met him . ’ |
13 | The first is that I sit here , hit this bottle of Old Bedwetter and fall into flashbacks of lost loves and hard times past . ’ |
14 | ‘ But all that means is that I know damn well what not to do . |
15 | What matters is that I need never question that there is a course which is objectively the best for me , and that when most aware I am nearest to it . |
16 | Now my view is that I think rather like your comment on Christian doing concerts , Scottish Amicable er Standard Life Scottish Hydro , Scottish Power , Scottish Nuclear I do n't necessarily see it as making influence to make a decision to make a purchase or to recommend a purchase to the third party in another part of Scotland |
17 | ‘ I suppose the unusual thing about the allotment is that I grow just about everything , ’ he said . |
18 | The physical and mental experience had made us healthier people and proof of the excitement and joy of the trip is that I have now become one of the greatest bores on mountain biking in the Swedish Arctic . |
19 | Right , well I 've been waiting since er what is it twelve o'clock this morning , what on earth this question can be and I certainly did n't er come up with this possible , erm all I can say is that I have always got on extremely well with Tony and . |
20 | ‘ THE most disheartening thing is that I have always had a really strong idea about what I want the group to be and I 'm not very good at relating to people who think that their version of what my group should be is more important than mine , ’ complains Stuart Adamson , singer/guitarist with Big Country . |
21 | One thing I can say of him with total confidence is that I have never met a man less interested in money . |
22 | ‘ I 'm bowling a bit quicker , but they main difference is that I feel more confident and settled this time , ’ he explained . |
23 | ‘ Your best bet is if I drive straight over to Poorly . |
24 | What we thought , all of us it 's going to actually this report item which is and I think therefore because we certainly have n't had time |
25 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
26 | I 'm like , ‘ I know who he is but I 've never listened to him . ’ |
27 | I thought there is but I mean before . |
28 | The , they really convert bibles for doing that is because I 've always done that of er right that 's , that 's out of the way , jump the paperwork , now what about talking about your clubs and that t to sort of close down the call and relax the client for getting into referral mode and I 've always done it tail end on so the introduction to the referral is at the beginning and perhaps looking for them during i is totally unfamiliar , I mean I do note the odd thing as I go through and note them down on the , the but I 'd never been used to actually although we were told referrals how and why that went with it . |
29 | As it is because I have always practised ordinary , normal methods of hygiene , I feel that er fresh food well cooked is not a danger to anybody . |
30 | He is perfectly clear , however , that ‘ indefinite ’ science is as I have just described it : a basic explanatory framework . |