Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] [is] that the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The feedback I get from my heart is that the best skiing is to be found not at big resorts but small ones . |
| 2 | Analyses of sexism in the curriculum should also include identification of what is left out , either within subject areas , or in terms of potential links between areas of knowledge : my contention is that the higher the prestige , and the more valuable a credential the subject becomes , the more likely it is to exclude issues , themes and approaches which relate to personal and female domains . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One of my arguments is that the mechanical relations of work can bring about this withdrawal . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ My feeling is that the younger students are caught in a double bind between a lack of jobs if they leave and a squeeze on higher education if they stay . |
| 11 | The gist of my argument is that the global capitalist system leaves less and less space for exclusively national capitalist projects . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | My suggestion is that the eight working-class women who say they ‘ like ’ or ‘ do n't mind ’ housework but show evidence of being dissatisfied with it , are in fact committing this contradiction because the speech mode they are used to makes the presentation of individual feelings difficult . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Over at Ibrox , the news for their fans is that the long injury list is continuing to shorten . |
| 25 | Given this , it is impossible to avoid the idea that another part of the difference between the causal items and their effects is that the causal items exist at a time when their effects do not . |
| 26 | Its importance is that the other parts depend on its results for their complete explanations . |
| 27 | One of the reasons for their homelessness is that the Prime Minister , when he had ministerial responsibility for social security , changed the rules and regulations . |
| 28 | Their view is that the after-tax cost of capital in America , Britain and Japan is roughly the same for companies posing similar risks , after adjusting for inflation , government barriers to the flow of capital and currency risk . |
| 29 | His interpretation of his data is that the deaf child is linguistically deprived from the very beginning and it is this early lack of language stimulation which creates the problem . |
| 30 | ‘ His theory , Greg , is … how long you got ? … his theory is that the best music is the stuff which makes you go doolally , lose yourself . |