Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst there is so much contrary scientific opinion with regard to the dangers arising from asbestos dust , it is difficult to understands the IDA 's reliance upon the opinions of Professor McDonald when it is known that he derives a large share of his research funds from the asbestos industry itself . |
| 2 | As it was his first visit , the attendant had suggested that he get a good sweat on in the steam room first , then move on to one of the dry heat rooms to continue sweating in comfort on one of the beds provided . |
| 3 | This incident so affected the policeman that he suffered a nervous breakdown from which , it is said , he never fully recovered . |
| 4 | AI has received reports indicating that he suffered a severe eye injury as a result of beatings during interrogation . |
| 5 | But if his history did not go down to 63 B.C. we must assume that he wrote a separate monograph on the wars of Pompey ; the difference is not great . |
| 6 | From 1906 to 1908 , with his twin brother Kenneth , Sorley attended King 's College Choir School as a day-boy , and it was here , at the age of ten , that he wrote a publishable poem ‘ The Tempest ’ , in form and content a clear portent of his adult work . |
| 7 | Graham Greene , for example , said that he wrote The Confidential Agent in record time under the influence of benzedrine . |
| 8 | It is likely , however , that he heard the loud knock on the door which heralded the entry of a rather harassed-looking Lewis . |
| 9 | It was a Saturday morning , after Charlie had collected his produce from the market and was on his way back to Whitechapel , that he heard the raucous cry . |
| 10 | The employee will further claim that he made no conscious effort to memorise the information . |
| 11 | The few surviving reports of cases heard in King 's Bench during the period he was a justice ( 1295–1316 ) do not suggest that he made a major contribution to the work of the court . |
| 12 | Paul writes that he is ‘ in ’ God — and as we look at the way that he wrote other letters , it is clear that he made a great effort to maintain that special relationship . |
| 13 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |
| 14 | Such a despair seized him at the sound of his own acceptance that he made a half-hearted attempt even then to deliver himself . |
| 15 | Firmly clutching her hand he slowed , and Frere arced around them on still skates so that he made a sweeping circle on the ice before they came , breathless , to a halt . |
| 16 | On the night , the young soprano was so nervous that he made a fatal mistake : he forgot to put on any underwear . |
| 17 | Rudd admits that he made a big mistake in designing an H16 engine , a layout previously used only in aviation , for the new three-litre formula in 1966 . |
| 18 | This certainly did not mean that he had become a tool of Moscow , but that he made a shrewd assessment of which ideology was most likely to speed up progress in Africa . |
| 19 | For one who was nervous with aristocrats , it was unusual that he made a special friend in the diocese of the hereditary lay leader of the Anglo-Catholics in England : the Earl of Halifax at Garrowby , whom he would have preferred to Churchill as a war leader . |
| 20 | Now , as the proud proprietor of an Athena store , he has every confidence that he made a wise decision . |
| 21 | Again there is little evidence to suggest that he made a significant contribution to the work of the court . |
| 22 | Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together . |
| 23 | History has shown that he made the right choice . |
| 24 | Anfield 's record-breaking striker is certain that neither Blackburn Rovers ' financial clout nor their present League position can ever console the Scot that he made the right decision on that dramatic day in February 1991 . |
| 25 | He nodded agreement , muttered that he thought a grand finale would be her kind of thing , better to wrap it up in style , he said , echoing Ivan . |
| 26 | Two days later , Coningham replied that he thought the irregular treatment of the Broad Sanctuary houses stemmed from ‘ no other motive than the architect 's wish for the picturesque ’ . |
| 27 | However , we know from Yeats 's letters even more than his poems that he thought the last possibility for aristocratic ease in the arts had disappeared when Robert Gregory was shot down over France in 1915 . |
| 28 | Bambi smiled thinly , and Sheridan said in a loud voice that he thought the whole thing was stupid ; everyone knew there had n't been any goddam kidnap attempt and why did n't Zak stop messing around and piss off . |
| 29 | In a private conversation with Salas Pombo after the National Council speech , Franco admitted that he thought the Falangist ideology outmoded . |
| 30 | His writings , particularly his Homilies on Ezechiel , composed while he was pope , show that he thought the contemplative life of monks would be best validated if it bore fruit in action . |