Example sentences of "[pos pn] [adj] [noun] [is] that the " in BNC.

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1 My retrospective impression is that the talk was less taut than this , and I have no recollection of the last point being raised . ’
2 The clear view of both miners and my hon. Friends is that the proposed abolition of the 1908 Act is to pave the way for privatisation by deregulating vital safety provisions and allowing the employer to introduce an extended normal working day in the guise of a flexible shift .
3 What upsets and angers my hon. Friends is that the Department of Energy is praying in aid the proposed European Community directive on working time as a justification for that change .
4 My personal view is that the latter direction represents the more promising future .
5 Mr Davey 's imperative as a publisher that so upset Mr Hitchin and his fellow booksellers was that ‘ my prime concern is that the school buys my books , and the only person the publisher can rely upon to actively sell his books to the school is himself ’ .
6 My immediate concern is that the tone of your coverage was very negative , speculative , and highly opinionated .
7 My only niggle is that the seams on the top of the shoulder are quite prominent and uncomfortable .
8 My only regret is that the college is not able to take more of my hon. Friend 's constituents .
9 Monica Shorten : ‘ My only regret is that the rival claims of the science departments and university clubs and social life distracted me from taking full advantage of my time in such an interesting community . ’
10 My only worry is that the majority of your classes would be in French .
11 My only qualm is that the final answer ( any shape , but get the size right ) is a bit of an anticlimax and , despite the author 's deftly misdirecting hand , those with a feeling for scale-changes will spot it sooner than they ought to .
12 Indeed , my only complaint is that the playing time is a bit on the short side !
13 My only comment is that the Quarterly has done it again .
14 My only reservation is that the public who use the stand will not be able to see the racing in the same manner as they did from the old open top affairs .
15 My general conclusion is that the pro-classical themes are the more important : they have opened up the opportunity for an extensive development of the unnecessarily narrow focus of Beccaria 's original formulation of classical criminology , and this opportunity will be taken up in Part Two .
16 Therefore I am not able to suggest to you , and have n't been able to in my evidence which district even a new settlement er ought to go in , but I have to say that if it were part of your deliberations that you should choose a particular district , er then it is not part of my submission that you should not choose a particular district , but my bottom line is that the policy wording should at least ensure that there is commitment to a new settlement and it is inescapable on behalf of the district planning authorities , the last thing that we would want is the possibility of going round the districts , and the last one to produce a district wide plan is the one that has to get the new settlement , that seems to be a gen , fairly unsatisfactory way of proceeding , and each one should have to consider that as part of their certification process .
17 My big worry is that the Monster will come wide awake and ruin things with its gross demands .
18 Its peculiar feature is that the main raw material , pig bristle , is bought from a monopoly supplier , China , and it is imports of Chinese paint brushes that have quadrupled within the last three years .
19 This effect , of course , has a complex role in the circulation of money , power and sexuality , but its direct role is that the spectator say : I want the cinema experience again .
20 Their public defence is that the system brought together the industrial and political arms of the labour movement : abandon the block vote and you betray Labour 's parentage .
21 The maximalist interpretation claims that the subjects accept that they should obey even if their personal belief is that the balance of reasons on the merits is against performing the required act .
22 The consequence of their separate decisions is that the interest group will not form , will fail to recruit sufficient members , or will fail to enlist support for its activities .
23 While this view has various formulations its central stance is that the purpose of education is to enable pupils to develop with deeper insight and sophistication activities which they value or find interesting in ways and contexts which they find amenable .
24 Their basic complaint is that the correspondents are fed ‘ the Government line ’ which they then regurgitate undigested over the pages of tomorrow 's newspapers or on tonight 's television screens .
25 Their major worry is that the Pushkin and the Hermitage may simply choose to withdraw the controversial works as a precaution before 12 May , thus wrecking the Pompidou exhibition .
26 One of the reasons for its phenomenal hearing is that the kangaroo rat 's eardrum is exceptionally large .
27 Their essential conclusion is that the black population is not absorbed into the white working class and is unlikely to become so within the foreseeable future .
28 Its essential implication is that the coefficient linking the deviation of output from its natural rate to the unpredictable component of monetary growth depends negatively on the variance of unpredictable monetary growth .
29 Its other mark is that the rich words have gone : i .
30 First , its underlying assumption is that the number of entities that the world consists of is finite .
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