Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] is [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | My advice is that the development value of Buchanan street bus station in Glasgow is £4 million . |
| 32 | My concern is that the Plec sometimes chases the Comet and the Lionhead and attempts to suck onto their sides . |
| 33 | Ms Alexander , calling on Mrs Bottomley to meet a delegation of parents , said : ‘ Although it was Beverly Allitt who committed these crimes , my concern is that the hospital management failed to spot her character defects , failed to supervise her and failed to act on numerous clues , and delayed inexcusably before calling in the police . |
| 34 | My concern is that the criteria for college eligible for funding , through the new funding council , will exclude a clearly successful service and a supportive authority such as that found in Croydon . |
| 35 | My concern is that the single market simply will not be able to operate effectively while one important part of the labour force lacks mobility . |
| 36 | I discuss this issue often with tourists I take trekking in rural Nepal , and my line is that the photograph takes second place to the opportunity for personal contact and an understanding of the culture . |
| 37 | My justification is that the details illustrate a number of quite general anthropological themes which are important quite outside the context of this particular case . |
| 38 | My suggestion is that the Audio Telescope output ( with two microphones ) could be coupled to a meter which would show by its maximum reading the direction of the sound . |
| 39 | My suggestion is that the eight working-class women who say they ‘ like ’ or ‘ do n't mind ’ housework but show evidence of being dissatisfied with it , are in fact committing this contradiction because the speech mode they are used to makes the presentation of individual feelings difficult . |
| 40 | My suggestion is that the evolution of subcutaneous fat in neonates and post-natal depression is an example of co-evolution and what has happened is mothers are programmed to be depressed for the first few days after birth because in primal conditions when remember this is where evolution set the parameters of human behaviour , in primal conditions it would probably pay a mother to test her new-born offspring to see if it could survive , because if it was defective or if it was sickly , or if there was some reason why that baby could n't make it to adulthood and its own reproductive life , that mother should not invest in it , because that 's her reproductive success . |
| 41 | Er there 's with no evidence of an oversupply , my suggestion is that the decision you must be taking is to what degree do you assume er to what degree do you er recommend a reduction in migration rates . |
| 42 | He never needed any encouragement in these moral quests , and my guess is that the recent favourable publicity about him means we will be hearing a great deal more of the Preacher from Plains . |
| 43 | My guess is that the German authority is waiting to be forced by outside opinion to reimpose some form of genuine , serious ban ; but that it will do so only at a price — that of an assurance from other major national authorities that they will actively target specific drug-suspects under their own jurisdiction , proceeding upon information they may already possess but have chosen not to ‘ activate ’ . |
| 44 | However it is resolved , not everyone will be satisfied , but my guess is that the viewers prefer the politics . |
| 45 | But my guess is that the place to tap is the state of mind of teachers themselves . |
| 46 | erm and what makes me suspect not is that Chine Chinese record keeping for many many centuries had been very thorough of course because it 's the basis of the imperial taxation system , so my guess is that the figures are probably fairly reliable . |
| 47 | My guess is that the bozo could make a half-headed attempt to chase after the car , but more likely he will not . |
| 48 | i pulled this of rec.sport.soccer ( see last part of mail ) — the post was rather mingled so i have tried to fix it up a little : take it for what it is — a post from memory from a guy somewhere and no mentioning of what year/what cup/ etc. i think the poster has messed up or something — my guess is that the home match is the first mentioned : meaning that G has beaten some respectable teams like PSV , Roma and Frankfurt at home and beating Roma and Frankfurt at aggregate . |
| 49 | But my guess is that the Festival is on to a real winner in the merchandising stakes , having seen bits of the logo featured in imaginative guises on clothing , stationary , mugs , and even Festival cheques . |
| 50 | ‘ I 'm sure I 've missed a crucial piece of information , but my understanding is that the TARDIS has been infiltrated and taken over by Pool . ’ |
| 51 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton : I have not yet seen a reply from the chief executive , but my understanding is that the position is exactly as I told the Hon. Gentleman in Committee . |
| 52 | My understanding is that the decision by British Airways was a commercial one based on the traffic , but I shall discuss that , too , with my hon. Friend the Member for Wiltshire , North when he returns . |
| 53 | My understanding is that the signalling in the Severn tunnel area is relatively new , and was installed in the relatively recent past . |
| 54 | But the important point here I think , is that this is a corporate , or may be a corporate res responsibility , and therefore my understanding is that the officers are going to look at those parts which may be looked at as a corporate responsibility , and I would therefore erm , assume that one would look at all the C A B services in that light . |
| 55 | I think that er that is a question better directed towards the French , possibly my colleagues in the foreign office but my understanding is that the French assembly have indeed er approved ratification er but the French government i is declining er to append the appropriate signatures to it er er until agreement over the erm the parliament building at at Strasbourg is completed erm but my honourable friend I think in true parliamentary form , asks questions to which he already feels he knows pretty well what the answer is and I suspect that my answer squares with what he knows already . |
| 56 | My understanding is that the European parliament has got so many buildings now including a great new building at Brussels built at huge cost , enormous cost and a new building they want to build at Strasbourg . |
| 57 | Well , my understanding is that the individual should have a job description as that 's what they are working too , and I thought at one time that it should be the individual who would sign the job description but apparently not , it should be the manager , who signs it to say yes , I confirm that this is the job I want the person to do . |
| 58 | My position is that the law is so constructed that in all probability , only the lucid , self-assertive patient who has a sympathetic , understanding doctor is able in most circumstances to have his way and be left alone , free from further interference , to die . |
| 59 | My thesis is that the remedy is not to discard voluntary bodies but to infuse them with a new purpose and to make new demands upon them ; and I have suggested that the new purpose is nothing less than to preserve the individuality of man . |
| 60 | The other concern in the City Council 's evidence on H One er is this issue of distribution , I note Mr Davis 's comments about the difficulties of subdividing the Greater York allocation between different districts , and I I do acknowledge the difficulty in relation to Harrogate , and particularly Hambledon which obviously has a very small proportion of Greater York , on the other hand both Ryedale and Selby do contain a substantial proportion of the Greater York population , er based on my calculations of their er proportion of the population of Greater York which admittedly is a somewhat crude way of of doing estimates , but in the absence of of any other projections that was really the only way to do it , my estimate is that the er compared with the nine seven target of County Council would take in the could potentially be seen to be taking a share of four thousand two hundred in Ryedale and seventeen hundred for Selby , if you base it on their existing population distribution on er part outside the city , now I 'm not saying necessarily that 's how the way you would do it , but I I think it 's an indication that the scale of development in those two districts is quite significant in Greater York , our concern is that the policy as it currently stands does not give any real guidance as to the way in which distribution of development outside the city , but in Greater York , erm can be er should be di divided up , and I think the problem really occurs from the introduction of the new settlement into H One , erm I do n't want to stray into the H Two debate Chair , but I think it 's the fact that H One does include a figure for the new settlement , that the new settlement is not located within any particular district , but that all the district totals do include in effect a figure which is undetermined at this stage , that that would be absorbed by the new settlement , as I understand the policy at the moment , and I think that really does introduce a problem , erm because clearly all of the emerging districts wide local plans could be in conformity with the structure plan and not include the new settlement , I think it 's er interesting to note that the the D O E's recently published a good practice guide , on development plans , did particularly highlight the situation in Greater York , as a problem , as a shortcoming of the existing plan , and if I can just quote it , it does say this , on page forty three , it would seem appropriate for broad locations of new development to be established by means of an alteration to the structure plan . |