Example sentences of "be [pron] [noun] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spokesman for Department of Environment Speaking personally , it has long been my view that these matters of food safety should be in the hands of a Minister of Consumer Affairs . |
| 2 | What principally weighs with me in thinking that Lord Coke made a mistake of fact is my conviction that all men of business , whether merchants or tradesmen , do every day recognise and act on the ground that prompt payment of a part of their demand may be more beneficial to them than it would be to insist on their rights and enforce payment of the whole . |
| 3 | Furthermore , it is my conviction that this artifice is more dangerous than the first and is widespread in the secular culture and the churches . |
| 4 | What may be unusual is my conviction that constitutional change , a reordering of the formal arrangements of political power and the nature of the British State , is a precondition for the achievement of the other changes , and that demands for this change may well be the vehicle through which other aspects of the strategy are developed and used as a stimulus to political action . |
| 5 | It is my experience that many students of English Literature with good A-level results dislike poetry , or at least feel baffled by it , and can go through a three-year degree course without this attitude being radically changed . |
| 6 | Indeed , it is my contention that this approach is most marked in the British case and that it constitutes the most significant aspect of British political culture . |
| 7 | ( It is my position that all surface metaphors can be thus expressed propositionally in an equative form in ordinary language . |
| 8 | It is my feeling that competitive advantage will not necessarily lie with the company whose television advertising builds the best brand image , or whose direct marketing agency hires the best creative brains . |
| 9 | So they are observations and it is my feeling that this motion has taken on significantly more importance than its content or indeed its effect . |
| 10 | It is my guess that metabolic competition is a very old form of protection from infection — crude , destructive but very effective . |
| 11 | Sir , it is my opinion that any development in area D thirty nine , which is wholly within the conservation area , would have those deleterious effects , and the same applies for D forty two D forty two . |
| 12 | It is my impression that social workers receive the most attention , followed closely by nurses . |
| 13 | It is my desire that many others , in our own day , will catch something of Baxter 's vision , zeal for God and love for the souls of men . |
| 14 | It is my belief that any writer , who takes their work seriously , makes it a priority and does not give up , will eventually win a measure of recognition . |
| 15 | It is my belief that anorexic speech ( or , more literally , behaviour ) consists of two quite separate and often contradictory texts , and that it is only by studying them both , in order to fit them together and so come up with an amended text , that we can understand what is going on inside the anorexic herself . |
| 16 | In view of the fact that we are not seeking , for the moment at least , to produce a marketable product , it is my intention that this letter should constitute our contract . |
| 17 | ‘ It is my view that many companies have weathered the recession and are coming out of it , but unfortunately there will still be casualties . |
| 18 | ‘ However , it is my view that underwater archaeology should be treated as part of mainstream archaeology , not as something with its own rules and special funding . |
| 19 | For the essential characteristic of democracy is its insistence that all men are equal in esteem . |
| 20 | The main value of Hinduism is its belief that all life is one , and it is not possible to hold fast to this belief without accepting that man is the servant and not the lord of creation , and that all men are brothers . |
| 21 | A good feature of Market Hyde 's book , in comparison with other highly popular treatments of such matters , is its reiteration that certain problems which may appear to be fairly simple are in fact extremely difficult . |
| 22 | When I was studying I went to Open Air Theatre and I saw a version there on Christopher er what 's his name that chubby fellow with the glasses Christopher Biggins that 's it . |
| 23 | When I was studying I went to Open Air Theatre and I saw a version there on Christopher er what 's his name that chubby fellow with the glasses Christopher Biggins that 's it . |
| 24 | It is his recognition that projected activities draw upon a distinctly different kind of energy ( and I include emotional response ) from non-projected activity that I think is of fundamental importance . |
| 25 | ‘ This operation in Latvia , ’ I found myself speaking in a whisper , ‘ what is it doing that these machines will do for the rest of Russia ? ’ |
| 26 | And do we understand from your reference , that it 's your policy that armed officers should do that job and then get home , get out of the way and relax a bit ? |
| 27 | On a number of occasions you have said that it is your belief that any initiatives being announced by the Government by way of statement are best announced to the House . |
| 28 | And it 's our intention that that land should remain for our children 's children 's children , that 's the first point . |
| 29 | It is our contention that architectural conservation should be accorded the same consideration which is already being shown to the conservation of other resources , both natural and man-made , and for the same reasons . |
| 30 | We feel that anthropologists are uniquely positioned to introduce a few question marks into the fundamental assumption of the discourse , and it is our hope that this book will provide some such . |