Example sentences of "of [pers pn] is that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of them is that for all Enzo Ferrari 's mythomania — and God knows he loves the pomp and circumstance of his legend and exploits it in his dealings with the outside world — the Ingegnere knows his stuff and can be perfectly straight when he wants to . |
| 2 | The best thing that can be said of them is that their contact with women is slight , the numbers who participate regularly are few , and whilst this reinforces the commonsense definition of poverty as being a result of apathy , it protects those who escape from the prescriptions of unperceptive need-meeters and from yet more management by misguided missionaries . |
| 3 | This might lead her to change her expectation of the average level of prices ; after all , if she is rational she must know that unpredictable movements in aggregate demand can occur and that one symptom of them is that the price in her island is higher than she was expecting the average to be . |
| 4 | The one thing that really , apar , well not the one thing , many things irritate me about the programme , but one of them is that they get people on so you 've got someone choosing who lives in Edinburgh choosing someone who lives down in Plymouth |
| 5 | So really they the benefit of this to those of you is that that this end of Portugal is like that is it . |
| 6 | ‘ All I ask of you is that you please let me go . ’ |
| 7 | I was too far away to observe what colour Enid Starkie 's eyes were ; all I remember of her is that she dressed like a matelot , walked like a scrum-half , and had an atrocious French accent . |
| 8 | But the sharpest criticism of him is that while appearing to be a chip off the old block , he was in fact something else , representative of the politicization of public appointments . |
| 9 | I 'm ready to believe yowl admit of their recommendations all I presume to say of him is that he writes me he shall be really dilligent and the enclosed specimens he has grown which I hope yowl puruse make it look as if he would prove so . |
| 10 | But all that we are requiring of him is that , widening his viewpoint from himself to the community , he has taken account of the communal effects of theft , before , as himself not the weigher but the balance , he allows himself finally to settle against or in favour of taking the money . |
| 11 | I would n't call last season debacle making the right decisions , my own personal opinion of him is that he was the right manager to get us out of the second divsion , but I feel that given the players and money avail able to him he maybe could have done better . |
| 12 | One pet theory of mine is that the decline in the study of Latin has accentuated this interest . |
| 13 | The beauty of it is that you can easily move them around on the wood . |
| 14 | The worst of it is that one can not yet express a proper anger about the state of things , since it is just about possible that the Frauleins Krabbe , Breuer and Moller are innocent of any serious wrongdoing ( if that 's the right term ) in the affair of the Uniform Urine . |
| 15 | ‘ So , the fact of it is that you last went down that stretch of lane at four o'clock . ’ |
| 16 | The long and the short of it is that he came in to replace Andy … |
| 17 | The pity of it is that this happens to be as beautiful a cat as the Sphynx is ugly . |
| 18 | Anyway , the upshot of it is that he 's written a song , for his daughter , based on the Basil Brush thing . |
| 19 | With Elton , the joy of it is that at least you 're quite familiar with a lot of the stuff , and even if you have n't actually sat down and worked through it you know how the songs go . |
| 20 | The old tricks should be left alone , because the reality of it is that when I go on tour in a couple of months , I 'm going to be playing all these songs and I 've been careful never to repeat past compositional techniques . |
| 21 | And the worst of it is that this disturbing new trend has extended beyond the mall and into the magazine . |
| 22 | And the worst of it is that , unlike the small child , they have learnt so many of the tricks of the adult world : How to play on parental guilt , how to manipulate , how to hide their real feelings and how to convince those that love them most that they are ‘ OK , honestly , mum ’ when actually they are consumed with anxiety and doubt . |
| 23 | The most you may be able to say at the end of it is that you ‘ gained understanding ’ ; to some of us that may be unsatisfactorily intangible , while to others it may be of profound significance . |
| 24 | The Air Force will write to his mother if there 's anything to tell , and the awful part of it is that I do n't know where she lives . |
| 25 | The whole thing takes around 12 days to complete and takes in all the best Lakeland peaks , but the beauty of it is that it can be divided into any number of day sections and there 's always a lowland alternative route in case the weather is really awful on the tops . |
| 26 | They 'd sooner take a job eight to five in a factory , if they can get it , and the worst of it is that the ones who do take it on ca n't find a wife . |
| 27 | The beauty of it is that while nut everyone can become Black or become a woman , anyone can join the ‘ real people ’ . |
| 28 | And the beauty of it is that she embodies this core value of intimacy in her music better than anyone else who 's arrived on the scene in years . |
| 29 | The upshot of it is that the appellate court , where the matter is one of discretion , as this is of course , will not interfere with the discretion of the court below unless it considers that the court was plainly wrong or it has erred in principle , that it has taken into account something it should not have done or has failed to take into account something it should have done , and on that narrow basis I must proceed with this appeal . |
| 30 | So can you give me a use of cast iron which ha one of the effects of it is that it relies on the occasional lubricating properties of the graphite in the iron ? |