Example sentences of "he [verb] that [adj] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are also some splendid quotes ; Planck 's gloomy view of the advance of science led him to believe that scientific truth triumphs not by convincing its opponents , but rather because they eventually die . |
| 2 | The devil , Trent thought , and found himself smiling as he realised that continual fear had acted as a drug , lifting him free of reality in the same way that marathon runners broke through the pain barrier into an almost hallucinatory state of calm . |
| 3 | He agreed that this advice had been good but said that things had now gone too far . |
| 4 | These ‘ social capital ’ arguments may have been what Titmuss meant when he argued that major wars increase governmental concern for women and children , and produce social policies to protect them . |
| 5 | He argued that greater emphasis needed to be placed on the practical applications of scientific work if Britain 's economic downturn were to be reversed . |
| 6 | The theory was first put forward by H R Buchanan in his Manual of Psychometry in 1889 , when he argued that all objects contain the history of the world because they are connected to the Akashic Chronicles . |
| 7 | He argued that rational people drawing up a just social contract would only be willing to grant governments the power to punish to the extent that was necessary to protect themselves from the crimes of others . |
| 8 | It could he argued that Latin America offers a good example of this . |
| 9 | Though he argued that any attempt to lay down rigid rules for classifying applications would be doomed to failure' , Dobry thought that guidance should be given in a national code of practice . |
| 10 | Senator Inouye was sterner : he realized that ordinary citizens thought Hakim 's testimony ‘ fascinating and exotic ’ , and chuckled at it , but he himself found it ‘ rather sad … to say it is stranger than fiction is an understatement . ’ |
| 11 | His sad tones prepared them for the news as he announced that German troops had not withdrawn from Poland and consequently Britain was now at war with Germany . |
| 12 | He thinks that great opportunities lie ahead , but vested interests , built on the status quo , are trying to keep them out of reach . |
| 13 | Would the Prime Minister explain why he thinks that deplorable situation exists ? |
| 14 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 15 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 16 | In fact , their own chairman , John Dunster , presented a paper to a United Nations session on atomic power in 1958 in which he revealed that some polonium had been released . |
| 17 | He postulates that such particles spend most of their time in a non-material or etheric state , momentarily leaping into the physical plane like a salmon leaping fleetingly into view above the water surface . |
| 18 | Under the dateline of Rome , that caught his eye , he read that increasing mystery surrounded the murder of Professor Zulfiqar Khan . |
| 19 | He found that Deep Level had been carried S.E. on the vein for 30 fathoms beyond the old works and was yielding a little ore . |
| 20 | The most prominent of these were hilltops , and he found that all leys had a hilltop for at least one of their terminal points . |
| 21 | In particular , he found that many researchers admitted to giving cited works positive and negative credit simultaneously in the same reference , a finding which supports the contention advanced by MacRoberts & MacRoberts ( 1984 ) that authors dissemble to diffuse the impact of negative references . |
| 22 | He found that geophysical literature had a half-life of less than three years ) . |
| 23 | He found that Labour councils spent more on education and built more council houses than Conservative councils . |
| 24 | He found that hyperactive children improved dramatically on a diet which excluded all artificially flavoured and coloured foods . |
| 25 | He found that 600 cartons had been set aside ready for him . |
| 26 | Coasting a bit , fiddling with his gears , he found that third gear worked . |
| 27 | He maintained that Latin America had already been drawn into the capitalist system in a dependent role , and that the activities of imperialism would ensure that it would retain this colonial status . |
| 28 | He concludes that these systems show a number of deficiencies in dealing with UDC numbers unless written with UDC in mind . |
| 29 | He adds that legal advice has indicated that there is a prima facie case against the auditors , but the decision on whether to take legal action will be made by a committee of two non-executive directors . |
| 30 | Yet he accepts that these countries need small , defensively equipped armies that could make a potential attacker think twice . |