Example sentences of "[pron] [adj] [noun sg] [be] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My personal feeling is that anticoagulation ( heparin or heparin plus oral anticoagulants ) should be used whenever indicated : with arrhythmias , large anterior MIs with the possibility of mural thrombus , or heart failure . |
| 2 | My personal feeling is that singularities are probably still present , though one can continue time past them in a certain mathematical sense . |
| 3 | But my educated guess is that guitarists want to get an idea of the feel of something , receive an impression of it from another player , then go and try the thing and make their own decision . |
| 4 | My immediate thought was that Frankenstein had encounted a bear , and might at any moment come dashing back and discover me . |
| 5 | My only excuse is that Bob Nichols ’ heart attack came as a shock . |
| 6 | My final comment is that loadings on the Central Wales line seem fairly light at present , judging by the two or three times I have been on it lately . |
| 7 | Its stated intention was that Mary should not marry any foreign prince ; she must marry a prince born of this realm — and Arran 's son was the most suitable candidate . |
| 8 | Their principal demand was that Kosovo should become a full republic , like the other republics inhabited mainly by one ‘ nation ’ , of which Slovenia and Macedonia have only slightly larger populations , and Montenegro a much smaller one ( see Table 10.1 . ) . |
| 9 | Their basic argument is that gender is all important when trying to understand the experience of women who become mentally distressed and go on to develop a more progressive and long-lasting mental disorder . |
| 10 | ‘ Their fundamental hypothesis was that ecosystems were too diverse and complex either to study or manage as one unit , ’ says DeMoss . |
| 11 | Her only regret was that Dr Neil did not buy the Clarion Cry so that so far the only piece of her work which she had seen in print was the one which she had written before she had arrived in the East End . |
| 12 | Its main thrust was that challenges to the order and stability of bourgeois hegemony in the social sphere are then registered as challenges to order and stability , first as content and then as form , in the aesthetic sphere . |
| 13 | Their underlying feeling is that Frank Williams has blundered badly and they are saying : ‘ What a mess he has made of it all ! ’ |
| 14 | The most promising such theory is the theory of ‘ mental models ’ , whose crucial insight is that readers extract from a text a ‘ model ’ of the situation in the ‘ real or imaginary ) world that the text is about . |
| 15 | He said he hopes to play well for Huddersfield etc , but his real dream is that Leeds sign him up again one day in the future . |
| 16 | His central assumption was that agents are not perfectly informed about prices in markets other than their own . |
| 17 | His considered assessment was that Ken 's narrative verse was ‘ often cumbrous ’ and his lyric verse ‘ not seldom languid and redundant ; yet all breathing an angelic spirit interspersed with such pure and bright touches of poetry that a reader will scarcely find it in his heart to criticize him ’ . |
| 18 | His prime concern is that clients should never be ‘ overhatted , as in over-horsed ’ . |
| 19 | Testimony to his punching power was that Rowe was left clutching his ribs and in obvious pain . |
| 20 | I understand that his preliminary conclusion is that independence does exist in fact , but that the perception of independence is an issue . |
| 21 | Our guiding principle is that pupils with special educational needs should , as far as possible , have the opportunity to experience the full range of the English curriculum , but we make some broad recommendations for modifications to attainment targets , programmes of study and assessment arrangements which we feel may nevertheless be necessary . |
| 22 | Our real problem is that people are now comparing our performance with our own record . ’ |
| 23 | As elsewhere in this chapter ( and book ) , our basic assumption is that understanding leads to learning . |
| 24 | And our great concern is that people in Scotland should know that the possibility of reconciliation exists . |
| 25 | He declared that ‘ our only wish is that Afghanistan should be a neutral and independent state developing in its own right and friendly to the USSR , and not a base for hostile activity threatening the security of neighbours ’ . |