Example sentences of "he [verb] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I urge him to accept that a single currency , as my right hon. Friend the Member for Blaby ( Mr. Lawson ) made clear the other day , means a massive transfer of political and economic power to the centre . |
| 2 | While welcoming my right hon. Friend 's reply , may I ask him to accept that the best training for Royal Navy reservists is with the regular Navy and will he give that priority in the coming operations for the Royal Naval Reserve ? |
| 3 | The return to normality after the Angelus hush made him feel that the all-seeing spirit which had for a while hovered doubtfully over his actions had now moved on . |
| 4 | His attachment to the ‘ theory of courage ’ made him believe that the Western world in his lifetime had been short not of wit or of strength , but of will . |
| 5 | This experience , acquired in an age when the chemist was regarded as an expert only in a special field , turned Davis into a generalist and made him realize that the enormous variety of industrial chemical processes could be reduced to a relatively small number of operations , and that the study of these in the abstract would enable general principles to be discovered which could be applied to any process operation — the keystone of chemical engineering . |
| 6 | In November , I wrote to him pointing that the formal period for consultation was ending and I asked when we might hear his response to the Green Paper . |
| 7 | At the south-western corner of the city walls two smaller castles were built , Baynard 's and Mountfichet , but never allowed to become great fortresses ; and they were finally removed from this strategic place by Edward I in the late thirteenth century : by a king whose mighty works at the Tower mirrored his determination to keep the Londoners under firm control ; but who greatly expanded the western end and formed a large new enclosure there for the Dominican friars , who could help him to ensure that no hostile presence met him when he came from Westminster to the City . |
| 8 | He employed the future founder of the house of Bollinger , Jacques Bollinger , then aged nineteen , to sell his wines in Germany , but it was Müller 's experience at Veuve Clicquot which made him realise that the Russian market possessed the greatest potential for sales . |
| 9 | It took just a few instants for him to realise that the huddled figure was Mayli Koulo . |
| 10 | Bachelard 's work on the formation of scientific disciplines led him to argue that the proper form of historical analysis should focus not upon an empirical history but upon the cognitive or epistemological status of concepts that distinguish a new science from an old one . |
| 11 | Rosenthal 's own research , and his review of other genetic studies , also leads him to argue that the high probability that identical twins will either both develop or both remain free of schizophrenia is explained by their identical genetic constitution , rather than by a tendency on the part of their friends , relatives and parents to behave towards each of them in a very similar way . |
| 12 | He paused and glanced about him to check that no French crew members were within earshot . |
| 13 | Senna said he realised that a good start was vital . |
| 14 | But by this time he realised that the best opportunities came to those who kept their feet on the ground — not their heads in the clouds . |
| 15 | He realised that the Communist parties had lost touch with their peoples and that he could not logically denounce Stalinist terror and neo-Stalinist stagnation in his own country without accepting the same for the countries which Stalin forcibly incorporated into the Soviet empire . |
| 16 | Or how about if he realised that the real reason I had been looking ‘ better ’ lately had something to do with a £6.99 bargain hair colourant from Clairol ? |
| 17 | ‘ It was then that he realised that the whole island was alive . |
| 18 | Did he think that the Rubenesque figure was still fashionable ? |
| 19 | At the same time , he ruled that the national parks in Kerry and Connemara would be no-go areas for mining . |
| 20 | He ruled that the public interest in ensuring enough blood outweighed the public interest in allowing AB to seek justice through the courts . |
| 21 | Indeed he agreed that a great deal of hypocrisy had been involved in what Macaulay had called one of the ‘ fits of morality ’ to which the British nation was periodically subject . |
| 22 | In a letter to Richard Bentley , a leading philosopher of the time , he agreed that a finite collection of stars could not remain motionless ; they would all fall together to some central point . |
| 23 | He agreed that a regrettable lack of foresight was at the root of it , but he felt that there were extenuating circumstances , and he seemed resolved to do something about it , in so far as he could . |
| 24 | Earlier , in June , the Finance Minister , Theodor Stolojan had said that it was not possible suddenly to remove controls on prices without creating an inflationary spiral in the ensuing price-wage explosion , although he agreed that the current pricing mechanism distorted prices and adversely affected supply and demand . |
| 25 | Marshal Terauchi , Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Region , dismissed this claim ( 17 July ) though he agreed that the former Netherlands Indies would be given Japanese-style independence . |
| 26 | on er , on er , oh he sold that a long time ago , he 's built a bungalow now they live |
| 27 | He insists that no political favours were promised in return and claims that he has since repaid the debt , half of it in the form of old books and furniture . |
| 28 | Like Cutler , he sees the historical source as the conjunction of electric media and black American ‘ folk ’ forms , and , also like Cutler , he insists that the new music is quite distinct from earlier written popular music . |
| 29 | He insists that the Extractive reserves are viable economically as well as socially . |
| 30 | Linguists today would consider this question a silly and misguided one ; while according to John Lyons , author of a wide-ranging introductory reference text , gender often reflects some kind of semantic criterion , he insists that the crucial factor is ‘ not necessarily sex ’ . |