Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wish to my heart that I hat seen her , and that 's the truth . ’ |
| 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 | It is not my experience that physical hardship ‘ brings out the best in a man ’ . |
| 4 | On that first brief visit I made up my mind that one day I would return there . |
| 5 | And there is no doubt in my mind that this infant is of higher than average intelligence . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not my fault that these people do n't understand what dancing is . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | This being so , it is all the more important to end by underlining what I take to be gained by the acceptance of my proposal that concessive holism should be adopted as the most fruitful approach to social explanation . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Terrible shame in my opinion that that building was demolished , allowed to go to wrack and ruin , er and then then demolished . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 | I can not but feel , though it may be an illusion induced by the delectable drug of understanding , that you must in some way share my eagerness that further conversation could be mutually profitable that we must meet . |
| 15 | I 've got a clear understanding inside my head that this business is taking place before I ever met you . ’ |
| 16 | I insisted in my foreword that spiritual warfare was down to earth and it is no less than modernity where the battle is now raging . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | A little voice , a nasty , calculating little voice whispered in my ear that one day I 'm going to need a reference from Swallow . ’ |
| 26 | I shall confirm my certainty that all forms of intervention and pain relief equal failure , and that bottle feeding is naughty , lazy and dangerous . |
| 27 | It is my guess that metabolic competition is a very old form of protection from infection — crude , destructive but very effective . |
| 28 | There 's particular questioning about my proposition that joint commissioning erm , should remain distinct from I think , the joint planning arrangements . |
| 29 | ( It is my position that all surface metaphors can be thus expressed propositionally in an equative form in ordinary language . |
| 30 | 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 . |