Example sentences of "[pron] own [noun] [is] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | My own assessment is that as a country we are being daft about candle ends . |
| 2 | My own experience is that the lowest ebb after a very hard run is not the morning after but the morning after that . |
| 3 | My own position is that the first finding of the judge , that April Ashley was a male , was in the light of available information unfortunate and unnecessarily conservative . |
| 4 | I push , prod , drop keys and re-attempt entry in vain until I realize that the only resemblance between the car into which I was breaking and entering and my own car is that they were both white . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , my own belief is that this is not the case , but only further research will tell . |
| 6 | But my own belief is that each spirit evolves by progressing through a series of different human lives , one after another , learning its lessons along the way . |
| 7 | My own belief is that while the ordinary , naive world of facts is real , so are the emotional , the transcendent and the ideal worlds which are only a newer form of perception or area of thought and have scope for limitless extension . |
| 8 | My own belief is that tunnels are very emotive places and if one is susceptible to paranormal events a tunnel is just the sort of place for it to happen . |
| 9 | My own belief is that we have had a sea change in the nature of employment in Britain and in other western societies . |
| 10 | My own opinion is that all cold-blooded animals are endowed with responsive behaviour that can be mistaken for higher intelligence , when what we are really dealing with are reflex actions to given stimuli — as in Pavlov 's dogs , which salivated when a bell they associated with food was rung . |
| 11 | My own opinion is that derecognition is a reasonable treatment if the downside is limited to a fixed monetary amount or actuarial analysis shows that the expected outcome would result in no significant upside compared to the sale price . |
| 12 | My own opinion is that the causes for the increased budget were two . |
| 13 | My own opinion is that the terms of reference of the public debate about education that have been established on the one hand by the political parties , and on the other by the teaching unions , are stupefyingly narrow . |
| 14 | ( My own opinion is that , owing to the pressure of time , it is best if the senior member alone gives the judgment without consulting the other members . |
| 15 | My own opinion is that the salaries of judges are so low that they do not attract the best brains . |
| 16 | Firstly the process of moving down towards our S S A needs to be facilitated because my own instinct is that the government , faced with all sorts of financial tribulations , is going to take a harder and harder nosed attitude towards local government expenditure , as it will unfortunately with an awful lot of the rest of what we have come to expect over the decades to be the responsibility of central government , clearly the current expenditure review is going to have some nasty shocks in it for consumers of account services , consumers of other assets of the welfare state but particularly I would suspect , the local government . |
| 17 | My own impression is that the editors have , over the past year , become a little more flexible in their interpretation of the rules . |
| 18 | My own impression is that initially there was a significant increase , but that attendance has now returned to much the same levels as before the cameras came in . |
| 19 | My own feeling is that Walser 's microscript was a symptom of abnormal modesty and self-effacement or self-depreciation in an unbearable modern world where , rather than seek fame , he preferred to be a servant . |
| 20 | My own feeling is that we will probably lose the battle , but there will at least be measures in place to protect the animals . ’ |
| 21 | My own feeling is that er er as against someone who is er reasonably determined and reasonably methodical there is very little privacy , there is more privacy if you are extremely rich and can afford to have bank accounts in Liechtenstein and can afford to hire lawyers to prevent stories about you appearing in the newspapers , but for th for the majority of us erm there is very little privacy . |
| 22 | My own feeling is that there is a great similarity and that there is a a base salary normally which is set on a competitive level with a target as in this case perhaps at the mid-point , perhaps at the sixty percent level or whatever it would be and that a significant uplift in compensation can be obtained by a bonus scheme , if the performance of the company as measured in earnings per share , return on capital , return on equity or any m other measure if those objectives are met . |
| 23 | My own feeling is that we at least need to start where the children feel most comfortable , and then to introduce elements which are better described as mythic rather than fantastic ; that is , to dramatise or create stories which contain imagery and symbolism which are likely to excite the children , and yet which they can relate to their own lives . |
| 24 | Another worker said it was too early to say whether industrial action was likely , but added : ‘ My own feeling is that we are caught between a rock and a hard place . ’ |
| 25 | My own guess is that there was no significant demand for free condoms ; nobody is going to go to the trouble of collecting free condoms who would not be prepared to buy them for himself . |
| 26 | ‘ My own guess is that they were mostly using guitars made over in Hawaii . |
| 27 | My own theory is that then , like now , it was a convenient way to discourage unwanted visitors : ‘ Dad , ’ the call would come from the top of the tower , ‘ I can see Mother-in-law and Auntie Bessie coming up the hill . ’ |
| 28 | My own view is that connectionism ( see Chapter 7 ) is well placed to provide such a computational account of sensorimotor development ; but that is not the issue here . |
| 29 | My own view is that these exceptions are so infrequent that they are not a reason for abandoning the neo-Darwinist mechanism as the one which underlies the vast majority of adaptive evolutionary changes . |
| 30 | My own view is that scientific theories usually start out by assuming the existence of entities that no one has ever seen or touched — genes , atoms , photons , viruses . |