Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] [be] that this " 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 | My opinion is that this is a bit harsh and narrow sighted — in the long run Norway will be better if their players get wide experience in good leagues around the world . |
| 4 | And Liberal Democrat Peter Bergg said : ‘ My reaction is that this is absolutely diabolical . |
| 5 | Now I 'd have to say when I saw the report in the Observer , which was a couple of months ago , the rape in the quad report , my feeling was that this was a national newspaper picking on Oxford because Oxford and sex makes great headlines and it was going to be a good sell , and I felt that it was inappropriate in that sexual harassment is a problem in other campuses . |
| 6 | My argument is that this harmonious interpretation can be fully understood only by interpreting Dicey 's entire theory in the light of the ancient conception of the rule of law . |
| 7 | Secondly , although it is true that all the institutions that are discussed have been described as " marriage " in the relevant literature , the whole point of my argument is that this very fact tends to mislead . |
| 8 | Indeed , my guess is that this particular political scandal will have a far more profound effect on the spending patterns of the British public than any Autumn Statement incentive or cut in interest rates . |
| 9 | Now I would imagine that the aim is for the English retrainer of the French teacher of English , say to be fully bilingual ( however defined ) and qualified to do the job , though my guess is that this will not in fact always be possible . |
| 10 | I am raising a point of order because my understanding is that this is the United Kingdom Parliament , which has representatives from all over the United Kingdom . |
| 11 | My hunch is that this woman is his mother , and I 'm anxious to know when she 's going to show up . |
| 12 | My view is that this is the work of the Holy Spirit , planting hundreds of small , vital congregations in schools , pubs , gyms ; wherever a hall can be hired . |
| 13 | My view is that this has to be negotiated with them and I would be very loathe for us to start imposing erm |
| 14 | They would devolve power to national assemblies in Scotland and Wales and to regional assemblies in England , and their hope is that this would promote a sense of national and regional identity while preserving the United Kingdom and a sense of belonging to a British community . |
| 15 | Their response was that this method had greatly augmented their income . |
| 16 | I think the atmosphere is certainly lost and the environment is different today without the patients , and their attitude was that this was more like a family than a hospital ward and they were treated as family . |
| 17 | Their subtext was that this was a devoted husband and a decent chap , not the apprentice dictator that his detractors portrayed . |
| 18 | Her comment is that this scene demonstrates the underlying dishonesty of the cliché : |
| 19 | The National Coal Board wanted to close some uneconomic pits and their advice was that this could be achieved by local talks . |
| 20 | Their view is that this will lead to clinical resistance and ultimately to a failure to implement . |
| 21 | Their agreement was that this was to be a pre-supper drink with Colin and Yvonne , the limit both of time and alcohol consumption clearly understood between her and Norman before they left home . |
| 22 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 23 | His interpretation was that this fulfilled her wish to avoid contamination from other human beings , and to achieve greater stature . |
| 24 | St Mirren manager Jimmy Bone said : ‘ The referee is entitled to his opinion and his interpretation was that this was a deliberate pass-back . |
| 25 | He asks " How are such propositions possible ? " , and his answer is that this can be explained only by assuming that space and time are a priori features of our cognitive constitution , not properties of things in themselves . |
| 26 | His idea was that this would make no difference to those who knew how they were going to vote anyway , but could sway the others ; the floating vote , I suppose . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And our dilemma is that this is precisely what we do with it . |
| 30 | Our argument is that this type of politics has a strong basis in instincts and emotion as well as in political economy . |