Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It grieves me think that these drivers , sometimes as many as 60 a week , have to pay to spend the night in this car park but ca n't even go to the loo , ’ she said . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | And there is no doubt in my mind that this infant is of higher than average intelligence . |
| 4 | ‘ It 's not my fault that these people do n't understand what dancing is . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 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 has been brought to my attention that that money , which patients regard as pocket money , is sometimes taken from them by private residential homes to be used as payment . |
| 8 | Terrible shame in my opinion that that building was demolished , allowed to go to wrack and ruin , er and then then demolished . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 've got a clear understanding inside my head that this business is taking place before I ever met you . ’ |
| 12 | I remember coming home and discussing with my wife that another friend that it 'd only be a couple of weeks and we 'd be back to work . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | My belief that all men are mortal is caused , but not by the fact that all men are mortal ; if any facts cause it , they are the facts that this man , that man , etc. , have died . |
| 15 | And the problem of other minds ( ch. 5 ) can be presented as the problem of how , if at all , my observation of the behaviour of human bodies justifies my belief that those bodies are people ; little extra is gained by asking whether and how I know that they are people . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It is part of my argument that this notion of service is still a fundamental part of the actor 's conception of professionalism , constrains professional behaviour and is built in to the ‘ contract ’ between profession and public . |
| 18 | I shall confirm my certainty that all forms of intervention and pain relief equal failure , and that bottle feeding is naughty , lazy and dangerous . |
| 19 | ( It is my position that all surface metaphors can be thus expressed propositionally in an equative form in ordinary language . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Furthermore , it is my conviction that this artifice is more dangerous than the first and is widespread in the secular culture and the churches . |
| 22 | ‘ It is my view that many companies have weathered the recession and are coming out of it , but unfortunately there will still be casualties . |
| 23 | The tenor of the work so far indicates my view that any account of the rise to prominence of black sportsmen in Britain is hollow unless constant reference is made to the social conditions amidst which black people lived and live . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Does my right hon. Friend share my view that those people who may wish to have a dialogue with Mr. Le Pen are simply selling short their country and their countrymen ? |
| 26 | It should not be presumed , however , that the child instantly and readily makes a generalization of its perception that many women possess no penis ; in the way of this there lies the assumption that the absence of the penis is due to a castration performed as a punishment . |
| 27 | 1979 Conservative Government got into its stride that this tenet was raised from aspirational status to a specific directive that InterCity must operate as a self-financing business . |
| 28 | So great was her disappointment that all life seemed to drain from her . |
| 29 | For the essential characteristic of democracy is its insistence that all men are equal in esteem . |
| 30 | Economics textbooks may still hold to the notion of ‘ work ’ as paid employment and deny the importance of unpaid women 's work ( in agriculture or the home ) in their theories and explanations and their insistence that most countries have moved to a ‘ monetary economy ’ . |