Example sentences of "my [noun] is that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My contention is that the prime reason for this situation — in the publicly available data domain — is the failure of librarians and information scientists to get a proper grip on the overall problem and to take effective measures to solve it . |
| 2 | My contention is that the main cause of the British predicament has not been the British economy but rather the decline of sterling and the failure of British policy to adapt to that decline … . |
| 3 | On this issue , my contention is that the dominant tradition of public law thought is to be found in a conservative variant of the normativist style . |
| 4 | The starting point was the issue of the opportunities offered to socialists by the current form of capitalist property in Britain , and my conclusion is that the socialised deployment of the personal sector financial surplus would permit a greatly accelerated rate of productive investment , yielding dividends in terms of socially useful output and employment , provided that the deployment of funds be carried out according to fairly well-defined criteria of rationality rather than merely in response to ad hoc political pressure . |
| 5 | My suspicion is that the male committees which control the majority of British golf clubs deliberately keep ladies ' subscriptions lower than men 's in order to have the excuse to maintain the inequality . |
| 6 | One of my arguments is that the mechanical relations of work can bring about this withdrawal . |
| 7 | Wile I happily photograph the classical palm fringed beaches of this kind , my feeling is that the good tropical island photography requires that one chooses a scene of paradise which records the fact of perfect beauty , yet , at the same time , evokes the presence of humans . |
| 8 | The gist of my argument is that the global capitalist system leaves less and less space for exclusively national capitalist projects . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | My impression is that the great majority of those who have entered the field have merely applied their particular area of expertise to this fascinating molecule . |
| 17 | My impression is that the old trick of saying that the cigarettes are for one 's mother or older brother still works 99.99 per cent . |
| 18 | Certainly , on my visits to exhibitions , such as at the Royal Academy , my impression is that the British public much prefers the older works , as it were . |
| 19 | My view is that the religious believer who makes a credal statement such as ‘ I believe in God ’ is affirming something similar to the believer in ghosts . |