Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] is that [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , Nicholas Budgen , the somewhat maverick right-wing Tory MP , said on 5 December 1984 when receiving the Spectator Backbencher-of-the-Year Award , ‘ My hope is that this Parliament will see a restoration of Cabinet government . ’ |
| 2 | Now , my proposal is that this section is established on the seventeenth of January nineteen ninety four . |
| 3 | But my argument is that that culture should not be accepted uncritically . |
| 4 | ‘ Human nature being what it is , my guess is that any maid worth her salt would have put a slightly imperfect dish in front of anyone but her master or mistress for the cook 's sake . ’ |
| 5 | My hunch is that this woman is his mother , and I 'm anxious to know when she 's going to show up . |
| 6 | Their dream is that many business PC users — as opposed to the scientists and engineers who usually buy workstations — will ‘ trade up ’ when they realise just how speedily such machines can crunch numbers . |
| 7 | Its basis is that all life is to be valued and treated with respect ; that the rhythm of life is something implanted by the Creator ; that the different ecosystems have to be treasured , even when we regard them as hostile to human life itself . |
| 8 | Her comment is that this scene demonstrates the underlying dishonesty of the cliché : |
| 9 | Its view is that any help from the West for the Soviet economy must be ‘ catalytic ’ : that is , it must ensure genuine radical reform . |
| 10 | Another assumption made by Marx throughout his work is that higher technology increases the total leisure time available . |
| 11 | The basis of his argument is that emotional experience and emotional behaviour involve separate , although interlinked , parts of the brain . |
| 12 | His principle is that another quantity called entropy is maximized . |
| 13 | Now he does n't actually make the concession I think it 's consistent of what he says , that he ought to concede that direct democracy might be better at improving the citizens , because after all the citizens have much more to do on in service of the state but his view is that direct democracy has the opposite failure to guardianship , that while it might be better at improving citizens it 's absolutely hopeless in managing the affairs of the state and his reasons for that is that we need experts with experience in order to carry out the affairs of government and although these people ought ultimately to be held responsible to the people , people should n't sit in judgment them in every one of their decisions . |
| 14 | But our experience is that this sort of ad this sort of presentation interviewing those sorts of things , they 're very different forms of presentation . |
| 15 | Our hope is that this letter will be a warning to others and that some of your readers may be alerted to check on their security arrangements , whether it be simple precautions or advice about a security installation . |
| 16 | Our conclusion is that economic efficiency theories , carefully examined , support the prohibition of insider trading . |
| 17 | Our argument is that this type of politics has a strong basis in instincts and emotion as well as in political economy . |
| 18 | But in Fiona 's case he stressed : ‘ Our understanding is that any relationship that might have taken place did not com-mence until he was not a client of the service . |