Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He expected to demonstrate that social support was related to depression independently of stress ( Figure 4.3A ) . |
| 2 | He sought to show that legal conceptions are the product of historical development ; but in particular he indicated how law functions as a framework within which we move . |
| 3 | He has announced that private enterprise will be allowed to flourish . |
| 4 | Like others before him , he has noted that some aspects of Mayan and other Mesoamerican civilisations bear an uncanny resemblance to artefacts from the great dynasties of China . |
| 5 | He has suggested that rare collisions between the earth and comets , recorded as scatters of tektites , must have produced vast quantities of energy that would have been sufficient to heat up considerably both the atmosphere arid the surface layers of the oceans . |
| 6 | But he has submitted that non-litigation costs are not subject to taxation and can only be quantified by the taking of an account , with or without supplementary inquiries . |
| 7 | He has claimed that statutory controls would ‘ stifle new developments and new jobs in the Highlands and Islands and raise costs when we face tough competition from efficient producers in Europe and elsewhere ’ . |
| 8 | He has shown that certain sections of the population look for immediate , simple satisfactions , while the intellectuals take pride in rejecting kitsch and deny themselves these simple pleasures . |
| 9 | Time after time he has shown that nice guys can finish first . |
| 10 | Time after time he has shown that nice guys can finish first . |
| 11 | He has shown that these solutions are asymptotic to the inhomogeneous Kasner solutions as the singularity is approached . |
| 12 | He has found that unemployed people are eleven times more likely to commit suicide than those in work . |
| 13 | For example , his work on the death instincts in Beyond the Pleasure Principle is based on the assumption that he needs to show that all organisms , including mankind , aim to return to a tensionless state of inorganic matter . |
| 14 | He 'd heard that stainless steel was going inside that box at such a rate as to absorb the country 's entire annual output , and that the rip-offs were a scandal . |
| 15 | At first , he 'd worried that Amber Epipheny would be jealous of him , and wondered whether she 'd confront him about the matter . |
| 16 | She sat there looking much less pale and thanking God privately that He 'd stopped that horrid war in Finland and brought Charles back to her . |
| 17 | Zen clearly remembered the occasion when he 'd felt that some detail in his office had altered . |
| 18 | To think he 'd stolen that secret image of me , taken , no doubt , from an upstairs window with a fancy lens . |
| 19 | Slowly and carefully , he withdrew the Steyr-Mannlicher .308 hunting rifle that he 'd bought that same afternoon using the cash from the sale of his car and the Firearm Variation certificate that had been issued to Ian Sampson . |
| 20 | Ultimately , he came to realize that this persecution complex existed only in his own mind , and that his unpopularity in Barbados arose from his walking out on them . |
| 21 | On the contrary , he seemed to think that popular art and literature were themselves full of devices which experimentalists were trying to recapture , as if ‘ intellectual montage ’ or ‘ dream time ’ were implicit in folk fables , riddles and jokes . |
| 22 | And he refuses to recognise that high interest rates are the price we pay for that deficit . ’ |
| 23 | He began to notice that those juveniles who were on his line of flight deferred to him , preferring to back off rather than confront him . |
| 24 | In this work he needed to know that these numbers factorised uniquely into primes ( 3.7.13 ) just as do the ordinary integers . |
| 25 | What steps is he taking to ensure that this year local authorities such as Southwark , which a week or two ago had paid less than one fifth of its mandatory grant cheques to eligible students , pay up , so as to minimise student hardship ? |
| 26 | He did say that 30 bids were being reviewed , all from foreign firms or Western-backed joint ventures . |
| 27 | In reply to yet another question from the impromptu baby-sitter , he said that he did not know where his wife was , but he did believe that poor Maria had left him . |
| 28 | So he had worn that hard hat , since even before he left the home . |
| 29 | He had heard that forty pounds a year had been paid for a girl to be looked after in the asylum of Dr Perfect in West Malling . |
| 30 | This was because by then he had written The Origin where he had argued that primitive society was classless , on the evidence he had obtained from Morgan . |