Example sentences of "of [pron] [noun sg] is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The long and the short of my experience is that roots are what matter , and country roots at that . |
| 2 | One thing I realised about my renewal of my faith is that I had nothing to do with it ! |
| 3 | Maybe what I ca n't help bringing into some of my work is that all this beauty on Koraloona demands a price . |
| 4 | The point of my argument is that sometimes authoritative intervention creates that prospect , and that it creates it because of its authoritativeness . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The gist of my argument is that the global capitalist system leaves less and less space for exclusively national capitalist projects . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The most important characteristic of their work is that it is ‘ naturalistic ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In spite of the onslaught , at local and national level employers have no option but to engage in collective bargaining with union representatives ; an index of their effectiveness is that , in general , wage settlements are still ( for those in work ) running ahead of inflation . |
| 12 | I think erm my two , or perhaps three , favourite novelists for today would be William Golding , Graham Greene and Iris Murdoch , and it seems to me that at least part of their importance is that they are really concerned with moral themes , as George Eliot was , even though , like George Eliot , they are shy about forcing a particular moral down the throat of a reader . |
| 13 | A better description of its use is that it automatically loose feeds the swim with a high degree of accuracy and efficiency . |
| 14 | The nub of its argument is that policing is a necessary function which ideally should control the criminal victimization disproportionately afflicting the most vulnerable members of our society . |
| 15 | The new calendar , now known as the ‘ Young-Avestan calendar ’ appears to have been adopted in the reign of Cambyses ' great successor Darius I. The most thorough and plausible investigation of the date of its introduction is that made a few years ago by the distinguished historian of ancient astronomy the late Willy Hartner of Frankfurt University . |
| 16 | But we both know , although I have n't said it , that the consequence of her unfaithfulness is that I have been able to take the high ground . |
| 17 | A significant aspect of her work is that it always broaches the boundaries between the traditional disciplines of philosophy , psychoanalysis , literary , and art theory ; the implications it holds for each are touched on by the essays in this collection ( for instance , Ainley , ‘ The Ethics of Sexual Difference ’ ; O'Connor , ‘ The An-Arche of Psychotherapy ’ ; Minow-Pinkney , ‘ Virginia Woolf : ‘ Seen from a Foreign Land' ’ ; and Burgin , ‘ Geometry and Abjection ’ ) . |
| 18 | The irony of her life is that if she had enjoyed a happy marriage these qualities may have remained dormant . |
| 19 | My conclusion of the strength of her faith is that her convictions are in fact not so deep-seated or so fundamental as to constitute an immutable decision by her as to her way of life — or her way of death . |
| 20 | Part of her power is that she has always been there for her children , part of her sadness is that they have betrayed that care by what she sees as dereliction of duty . |
| 21 | Part of her power is that she has always been there for her children , part of her sadness is that they have betrayed that care by what she sees as dereliction of duty . |
| 22 | For most of his career Tolkien was a most extreme example of a man with this second urge strongly developed : he was fascinated by names , to give only one example , part of whose nature is that they are for one thing and one thing alone , very hard to reduce to system ! |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | In 1914 Bramah began an entirely different set of stories with Max Carrados who , on the dust jacket of the first edition , is described as ‘ a detective of a totally new and unexpected type , for he is blind ; but the alluring peculiarity of his case is that his blindness is more than counterbalanced by an enormously enhanced perception of the other senses ’ . |
| 25 | The only detail known of his marriage is that his wife survived him , and died at Mile End in London in 1793 , aged eighty-four . |
| 26 | The tragedy of his downfall is that he was tailor-made for the job . |
| 27 | The conclusion which each of us independently has reached in this court on the vital part of his story is that he was clearly telling the truth … we see no justification for disturbing the verdicts which in our view were entirely correct . ’ |
| 28 | The effect of his mistake is that he is not guilty of assault . |
| 29 | Like the merchant — and , indeed , implicitly , his wife — an early-emphasized detail of his character is that he is " " free " " in the sense of " generous " , but in his case this is very much a means to an end rather than an end or a pleasure in itself : Free was daun John , and manly of dispence , As in that hous , and ful of diligence To doon plesaunce , and also greet costage . |
| 30 | My understanding of his proposal is that inspections should be carried out only by local government inspectors . |