Example sentences of "[be] [verb] that his [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three months later he was seized with chest pain , but because he had been told that his coronary artery was normal he developed an irresistible desire to chop wood . |
| 2 | Aides are gambling that his broken promise of a tax cut on the middle class was never taken seriously . |
| 3 | Despite the fact that Aethelburh was accompanied north when she married by Paulinus as her chaplain , and that Paulinus was subsequently consecrated bishop of York by Archbishop Justus in 625 or 626 ( HE 11 , 9 ) , Eadwine did not hasten to embrace the new faith and it needs to be emphasized that his eventual baptism was untypical among the Anglo-Saxons at this time . |
| 4 | Reagan was supported by an exceptionally talented staff in his first term and it might be said that his legislative triumphs can best be explained by the quality of the team around him . |
| 5 | In a case where the driver 's option is to be explained to him under section 8(2) , the driver should be told that if he exercises the right to have a replacement specimen taken under section 7(4) , it will be for the constable to decide whether that specimen is to be of blood or urine and , if the constable intends to require a specimen of blood to be taken by a medical practitioner , the driver should be told that his only right to object to giving blood and to give urine instead will be for medical reasons to be determined by the medical practitioner . |
| 6 | It was with a succession of such hints that Shah Jehan let it be known that his eldest son bathed in an ever-brighter glow of Imperial approval . |
| 7 | Is it to be assumed that his very presence amounts to an implied threat ? |
| 8 | Certainly he expects to be happy there , but even if we were to claim that his ultimate end is pleasure we should be using ‘ end ’ in another sense than when we say that his flight was the end to which booking the ticket was the means , since to enjoy living in a place is not an activity separate from and subsequent in time to living there . |
| 9 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 10 | As an example of one technique , assume that a project leader is told that his current project , if successful , will earn the company £1000 profit , if a failure , nothing . |
| 11 | As an example of one technique , assume that a project leader is told that his current project , if successful , will earn the company £1000 profit , if a failure , nothing . |
| 12 | He has proved his fitness in training , and it is hoped that his thundering tackles will help to knock Cornwall out of their stride . |
| 13 | It is estimated that his corporate empire , whose interests also include Swan lager , a stake in British Satellite Broadcasting and one of Australia 's largest television groups , has more than £4 billion worth of debts . |
| 14 | No one with half an eye on current trends is mentioning that his main claim to fame used to be as Susan Sarandon 's toy boy . |
| 15 | But , by keeping him on as State Secretary , Mr Yeltsin is ensuring that his trusted colleague from his days as Communist Party chief in Sverdlovsk ( now Yekaterinburg ) remains firmly in charge of all presidential structures . |
| 16 | It was fitting that his last innings for Middlesex should bring him 221 — his highest first-class score . |
| 17 | Although it was said that his main contribution to debate was his sonorous ‘ hear , hear ’ , his speeches , reflecting the outlook of a liberal-minded Whig , were usually sensible and to the point . |
| 18 | He was not told that he was being dismissed , but the EAT found that he could reasonably have assumed from what was said that his continuing employment prospects might well be limited . |
| 19 | His position was further undermined when , on Aug. 3 , it was revealed that his private secretary had been an intermediatory in a separate scandal involving fraudulent loans of 260,000 million yen by the Fuji Bank . |
| 20 | I was told that his legal advisers were concerned that if he applied for a taxation this would amount to an adoption of the bills and prejudice his other objections to the bill . |
| 21 | Erm , he he he was saying that his young boy of eight , he does n't allow to play out alone . |
| 22 | Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914 , and should not be taken as binding fourteen years later . |
| 23 | Although Lowe under Dr. Watson had also learnt enough speech to make himself understood by members of his family , he was to say that his usual method of communicating with his family was by his fingers , and with strangers , by writing . |
| 24 | The bowler-hatted ( not entirely un-Bolovian ) city gent photographed by his brother outside the offices of Faber and Gwyer in 1926 was determined that his new faith should be brought to the fore on his home , city ground with an emphasis on basic religious values , rather than those of sophisticated aesthetes . |
| 25 | Indeed some years later ( when examined by the Radcliffe Committee on the working of the monetary system ) Sir Henry Self was to show that his basic attitudes to this question remained fundamentally unchanged : interest rates , he said , affected their costs , not their investment behaviour . |
| 26 | He was advised that his best chances for advancement in life lay in spending some time at the royal court and seeking some government office . |
| 27 | M was informed that his fellow directors had lost confidence in him , that they were not satisfied with his performance and that he must improve . |