Example sentences of "[adj] that he [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life had not prepared him for the task , and it soon became clear that he lacked the natural shrewdness and strength of character that a Gdansk plumber was to show the Polish bosses three years later . |
| 2 | Nevertheless , it is fairly clear that he saw the democratic political movement as the principal force creating this new social order , for it is the democratic regime that assigns pre-eminent value to the wellbeing of the greatest number , establishes an open and mobile society by destroying the old hierarchy of ranks , and encourages the development of trade and manufacture . |
| 3 | Dworkin makes it clear that he considers the second principle to be the more fundamental one under a liberal conception of equality . |
| 4 | My right hon. and learned Friend has said as clearly as possible that he regards the second London terminal at King 's Cross as an intrinsic part of the scheme . |
| 5 | The Prussian Finance Minister , von Motz , explained to the King in 1829 that he saw the economic union of Germany as the prelude to its political unification ‘ under the protection of Prussia ’ . |
| 6 | Jim was so upset that he sold the burgundy car — and transferred the number plate to the Rolls . |
| 7 | He first visited Sicily while he was still an undergraduate , and it was on a second visit to the island in 1808–9 that he wrote the first of his many privately published books , a translation of Cicero 's The Last Two Pleadings … against Caius Verres ( 1812 ) . |
| 8 | The tiger that was nearest to him , and which he could see most easily , seemed so bored that he did the same thing day after day , hour after hour . |
| 9 | Now , with the stilling of the engines , the sudden silence was so absolute that he saw the three motionless figures as if they were a tableau of dummies in a silent world . |
| 10 | Burrows became more and more convinced that he had the right man . |
| 11 | But if so I am not wholly convinced that he adopted the new Liberalism . |
| 12 | His monotone drawl made one feel he is not yet convinced that he has the mental application to match his great physical ability . |
| 13 | His monotone drawl made one feel he is not yet convinced that he has the mental application to match his great physical ability . |
| 14 | That the king yielded to the resulting complaints of the clergy as far as he did might be explained by his preoccupations in Paris when he could hardly afford serious embarrassment at home ; yet it seems more likely that he recognized the powerful tradition by which the matters in conflict were long deemed to have belonged rightfully to the church . |
| 15 | I am sure that he saw the depressing report in The Sunday Telegraph that , with its customary foresight and thoughtfulness , the Treasury had decided to reject the Thameslink project . |
| 16 | And what we 're trying to do is to give him this family feeling that everybody behind here , the whole team , every single worker is rooting for him and making sure that he has the best . |
| 17 | But it was in 1958 that he formed the central personal and business partnership of his life . |
| 18 | His tone was gentle , almost indulgent ; it was plain that he considered the whole idea farcical , but was too polite to tell her in so many words . |
| 19 | It is essential that he spots the oncoming fish while it is still far away from him . |
| 20 | ( It is notable that he equates the simple , the sensuous , the repeated , with the childish . ) |
| 21 | Raven Thomson was deemed not to be insulting when he said at Bethnal Green in March 1937 that he had the utmost contempt for the Jews and that they were ‘ the most miserable type of humanity , ’ but an Inspector Jones was overruled when he reported that Mick Clarke had used no inflammatory language at the same venue in June 1937 , when other police shorthand notes stated that Clarke had called the Jews ‘ greasy Scum ’ and ‘ the lice of the earth ’ . |
| 22 | Is he also aware that he has the united resolve of Conservative Members for the speedy passage of his Bill ? |
| 23 | Is he further aware that he carries the good wishes of the party behind him in the difficult few months to come and should go to the talks in great confidence , knowing of the great contribution that this country has made to Europe since the days of William Pitt ? |
| 24 | Ashe has known since 1988 that he had the deadly virus . |
| 25 | But now they were so bad that he did the unthinkable . |
| 26 | It is true that he knew the Prime Ministers of the later 1940s and early 1950s , Attlee and Churchill , personally , and he was not averse to breaking protocol by raising policy matters with them behind the back of their Minister of Fuel and Power on a few occasions . |
| 27 | Is it true that he knows the great geophysicist in the sky ? |