Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [is] that [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | My hope is that on May 19 , when the full Board vote , they will go instead for eight four-day games , the remainder to be played over three days on uncovered pitches and run-ups , thus restoring life to pitches , variety to bowling attacks and a priceless education to batsmen . |
| 3 | My hope is that by praying about such situations I am helping to keep God from being pushed out , forgotten or ignored . |
| 4 | My point is that in a single-sex community tasks have to be shared . |
| 5 | Although the plan has been superimposed over an existing plan , erm , to be charitable it 's at best confusing , erm , my feeling is that in actual fact the plan there does n't actually show us , well enough , and you may consider that we ought to be asking for a much clearer plan before we make a decision . |
| 6 | I know a local primary school that does n't have a P T A at the moment , and my feeling is that in fact the head teacher in particular is terrified of the , the pressures that would be put on her if in fact the P T A was formed . |
| 7 | Now my feeling is that in doing an evaluation one ought to try and develop each of these different viewpoints , then leave it to the people concerned that have to make the decisions to pick up each of these and to make the decisions , but at least the evaluation itself is not sort of ruling out of court any of the viewpoints that could be important in that situation , so any person who 's involved , even if they 're in a minority of one , at least feels that his views are there in the evaluation somewhere and they 're made legitimate by it . |
| 8 | My belief is that at Co-ordinators Meeting we should examine that concern and discover a workable and economic way of expressing it . |
| 9 | Well , my advice is that on no account should you take your husband to see Basic Instinct . |
| 10 | He has to watch his step very carefully vis-à-vis the Russians but my guess is that in this instance they went too far . |
| 11 | My understanding is that in 1977 Willy De Roos achieved this under sail in one season , and for this he received a Krug Award for Excellence . |
| 12 | Fool 's Gold director Terry Winsor says : ‘ The truth is extremely elusive but my understanding is that unlike the Great Train Robbers , the boys who did go inside wo n't come out as poor men . ’ |
| 13 | My problem is that over the last 4 or 5 years , I 've been having my hair highlighted and gradually I feel that it has become too blonde . |
| 14 | But at the end of the day er my view is that on balance there is a case for this application to go forward . |
| 15 | And my view is that within the A sixty four corridor , north east , there is sufficient range of sites to be found that it should not be erm set to one side on this criterion . |
| 16 | Their case is that as a previous owner of the flat he was responsible for having a fire escape put in . |
| 17 | Her argument is that by learning to overlook those parts of the world which are easily nameable we can revert to a mode of perception more favourable to successful drawing . |
| 18 | On the continuity point their argument is that under the system of election by thirds , you do n't see a dramatic switch in the party control of the council . |
| 19 | Another article to show much ingenuity in spotting small-scale correspondences and diagnosing their significance is that by John Irving , who aligns well chosen items of keyboard music ( and some consort music ) by Byrd and Tomkins to illustrate the extent to which the younger composer applied ( among other influences ) principles of ‘ creative reinterpretation ’ ( p157 ) of Byrd 's procedures in the development of his own personal style . |
| 20 | Perhaps the most telling aspect of his rule is that within a generation of his death , he was as much the subject of legend as of factual history . |
| 21 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 22 | His thesis is that in Western societies today state involvement in redistribution of the benefits and burdens of citizenship , and state planning and regulation in public law , has led to an abandonment of concern with formal justice and a turning to procedural and substantive justice . |
| 23 | What good is that to the poor soul who is supposed to take the lead in science teaching , when there are seven colleagues requiring help , two or three with neither 0- nor A-level in science , and none with post-initial training of any substance ? |
| 24 | It may be that the result of our decision is that in any case where the facts would establish a charge under section 15(1) they would also establish a charge under section 1(1) . |
| 25 | The industrial investment group replied that it had employed both Korn/Ferry and Russell Reynolds , but wrote that although the type of firm used depended essentially on their need , ‘ our experience is that in our opinion we receive better service from smaller , local firms for positions which do not have an international content to the job ’ . |
| 26 | But our conclusion is that in fact the south east sector is the er least harmful of the three , but the south west sector is the next least harmful and that in fact , somewhat surprisingly I must admit , that the north east sector is actually the worst of those three . |
| 27 | A measure of our commitment is that in the year to June , we increased our lending to small firms by 13.5 per cent to nearly £10bn . ’ |
| 28 | I was heartened to see that one of the slogans on London East TEC 's letterhead is : ’ Our vision is that by the year 2000 , the East side of London should be as prosperous as the West side ’ — that seems to be an excellent vision for London East TEC . |
| 29 | Another feature of the international nature of our competition is that within our own home market , the United Kingdom , we meet every one of our international competitors who maintains a UK subsidiary company . |
| 30 | The peaks also correlate with high NO 2 values , so our assumption is that in these episodes we are measuring lower-latitude air as the denitrified polar vortex moves away from the site under the influence of planetary wave activity , as has been demonstrated with previous NO 2 data . |