Example sentences of "[prep] my [noun] [be] that " 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 | One thing , however , that is widely known about my snooker is that I am never more dangerous than when being profoundly humiliated . |
| 4 | One of the interesting things about my reminiscing is that it stirred up memories for a lot of other people , too . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They are yet to be involved in the testing process : ‘ My real concern for my children is that they have n't gone through the tests for 14-year-olds yet , ’ he says . |
| 8 | The next facet of my approach was that I wanted to see more flexibility in the hands of local family health services authorities over the application of funds and the use of the substantial sums of money that are available to them for the development of primary health care . |
| 9 | The long and the short of my experience is that roots are what matter , and country roots at that . |
| 10 | One thing I realised about my renewal of my faith is that I had nothing to do with it ! |
| 11 | ‘ His criticism of my sermon was that I had not gone far enough , ’ continued Father Kipling . |
| 12 | The significance of My Lai is that it threatened the American national myth — that of moral superiority . |
| 13 | Maybe what I ca n't help bringing into some of my work is that all this beauty on Koraloona demands a price . |
| 14 | The only important thing about the rest of my life was that it was there . |
| 15 | Another of my concerns was that Mrs Allen would not bother to cook and eat meals now that she no longer had to prepare anything for her husband . |
| 16 | ‘ He once said that one of my weaknesses was that I was n't vindictive enough , ’ said the urbane and distinctly ungrudging Foster , hugging a radiator . |
| 17 | One of my arguments is that the mechanical relations of work can bring about this withdrawal . |
| 18 | At home the attitude of my parents-in-law was that I was from outside Pakistan , so I must be very independent — although I never showed my independence . |
| 19 | The point of my argument is that sometimes authoritative intervention creates that prospect , and that it creates it because of its authoritativeness . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The gist of my argument is that the global capitalist system leaves less and less space for exclusively national capitalist projects . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over . |
| 25 | The feedback I get from my heart is that the best skiing is to be found not at big resorts but small ones . |
| 26 | I think that what happens in a place like erm Kingston , or a place like Lewes from my observation is that the general aspirations , the pretensions , change . |
| 27 | The furthest fucking thing from my mind was that I 'd be a clothing manufacturer . ’ |
| 28 | All I can say in my defence is that at this point in history , I find it useful to do two things with my own writing and speech . |
| 29 | All I can say in my defence is that I have nothing now in my life that I would need to hide from you . ’ |
| 30 | One of the first things that I noticed in my workplace was that there was an entrenched , hostile division between Black and white colleagues . |