Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [noun sg] is [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The nicest thing about my dad is that he often takes me along to work with him . |
| 2 | I think what is quite interesting about my work is that I was non-disabled , then became disabled , and I operate at these borders . |
| 3 | The only time I might lie about my age is if I met a toy boy ! ’ |
| 4 | One thing , however , that is widely known about my snooker is that I am never more dangerous than when being profoundly humiliated . |
| 5 | One of the interesting things about my reminiscing is that it stirred up memories for a lot of other people , too . |
| 6 | ‘ One of the reasons for my downfall is that I am a rep for Taunton Cider , and one of the first things Yvonne told me was to keep off alcohol . ’ |
| 7 | The worst thing for my son is that what he would like to do more than anything else in all the world is to be able to read like other people . |
| 8 | ‘ One thing you notice about her driving is that she is quite precise but she is never afraid to go into battle . ’ |
| 9 | The only possible excuse for her behaviour is that my temporary excision has gone to her head . |
| 10 | Any initial work in multicultural mathematics may be seen to be tokenistic , especially if the only obvious reason for its inclusion is that it represents other cultures . |
| 11 | One reason for its success is that Edinburgh , unlike many other universities , maintains a strong and creative tradition of practical co-operation across departments and subjects , as well as being able to offer excellence within specialisms . |
| 12 | One reason cited for its downsizing is that its mix of skills is no longer appropriate , given that the mainframe software business is declining , and its Unix and client-server applications are only now coming to market . |
| 13 | It was discovered as recently as 1983 by Alain le Brun when excavating at the Neolithic settlement of Khirokitia in southern Cyprus and has been found to date from 6000 B.C. The important point about its location is that Cyprus has no wild cats and this means that the animal must have been brought over to the island by the early human settlers . |
| 14 | The reason for their inclusion is that they are seen as influencing ( or being indicative of ) the responsibility of offenders for their actions . |
| 15 | Briefly , the rationalisation for their inclusion is as follows . |
| 16 | One of the reasons for their homelessness is that the Prime Minister , when he had ministerial responsibility for social security , changed the rules and regulations . |
| 17 | The reason for their notoriety is that they are complicated by a number of factors others than real changes in the levels of crime . |
| 18 | The reason for their use is that they make the task of interpretation easier for the reader . |
| 19 | The long and the short of my experience is that roots are what matter , and country roots at that . |
| 20 | One thing I realised about my renewal of my faith is that I had nothing to do with it ! |
| 21 | Maybe what I ca n't help bringing into some of my work is that all this beauty on Koraloona demands a price . |
| 22 | erm another area of my work is as I er writing workshops , the writing workshops are very different from the normal writing workshops there based at galleries and they take groups of people round an exhibition recording their comments on either one particular picture or the exhibition as a whole and then with my help we put the comments into poems that are then displayed along side the exhibits , erm this work I do with erm all sorts of people with children people with special needs , disabled people and , and that 's really where my interest in art erm comes in and I find that its a great leveller for people who would like to express themselves and have perhaps have difficulty by aiding , by looking at paintings and being able to see perhaps emotions or images that they , they feel themselves , so in all areas erm I find painting in my areas of work , painting influences me and has done for as , as long as I can remember . |
| 23 | The point of my argument is that sometimes authoritative intervention creates that prospect , and that it creates it because of its authoritativeness . |
| 24 | Secondly , although it is true that all the institutions that are discussed have been described as " marriage " in the relevant literature , the whole point of my argument is that this very fact tends to mislead . |
| 25 | But the gist of my argument is that there is no single cross-cultural matrix into which these several " marriage " institutions can all be fitted . |
| 26 | The gist of my argument is that the global capitalist system leaves less and less space for exclusively national capitalist projects . |
| 27 | Incidentally , one of the curious phenomena of my library is that when you take out Bleddyn 's autobiography from the shelves it automatically opens at the very page mentioned above . |
| 28 | Ask any laser printer user what the bane of their life is and they 'll tell you — replacing the toner cartridge . |
| 29 | The most important characteristic of their work is that it is ‘ naturalistic ’ . |
| 30 | The common sense of their argument is that higher public spending raises interest rates and attracts capital inflows , which in turn raise the demand for sterling and therefore the exchange rate . |