Example sentences of "he [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially , he presumed that this phenomenon was merely a personal idiosyncrasy , but later observations showed that this was not the case at all : the tensing-up of neck muscles is practically universal . |
| 2 | He agreed that moral development was in 3 stages , but believed that these were divided into two parts . |
| 3 | In addition , he argued that legalizing adoption was against the teaching of ‘ the church ’ . |
| 4 | He argued that either symbol was used whenever it fell more easily to the hand . |
| 5 | He found that positive feedback was predictably given most often for accuracy and quantity of reading . |
| 6 | He found that this feeling was not unpleasant . |
| 7 | He concludes that high relief was essentially a response to high food prices rather than to perception of a chronic employment problem . |
| 8 | He says that violent death is so common that people tend to be fatalistic and unprepared to take precautions . |
| 9 | The hon. Lady selects the wrong argument on which to call Professor Glennerster as witness , because he says that that argument is muddled . |
| 10 | He says that Saudi culture is different from ours . |
| 11 | Nevertheless he says that formal grammar was certainly useful as a reaction against older , notional views of grammar . |
| 12 | Yet when he says that this change is not deliberate , he raises the fear that he might go back to a Thatcherite policy , if and when he has the chance . |
| 13 | In particular , will he ensure that any widening is within the existing boundaries of the M25 and that the lighting , which is there to help motorists , does not infringe on the villages and the countryside of Surrey ? |
| 14 | He recognised that human society is characterised by extraordinarily complex and rich forms of communication , and it is through such communication that the individual 's self is constructed and the larger group is constructed . |
| 15 | He recognised that some understanding is given directly by God , but also that it has to be appropriated by human beings using their reason . |
| 16 | However , he added that pancreatic cancer is one of the most fatal forms and often there is little that can be offered to patients . |
| 17 | He added that further investment was required to allow another coalface to be opened . |
| 18 | Indeed , Wycliffe maintained that Gaunt regarded political instability as one of the greatest evils that could befall a state ; and Gaunt 's political career suggests that he believed that political stability was best ensured by the maintenance of the prerogatives of the monarchy . |
| 19 | He was able to tolerate this because he did have a kind of ultimate theological perspective of his own : in a style that owed a good deal to Hegel , he believed that all history is a movement of the spirit which is on the way to a return to God , and will at the last find its home in God . |
| 20 | He believed that this recording was one of the essential means to feed the imagination of children and so promote further creative work in a variety of fields . |
| 21 | He claimed that capitalist society was polarizing ‘ into two great hostile camps , into two great classes directly facing each other : Bourgeoisie and Proletariat ’ ( Marx , 1977 : 222 ) . |
| 22 | It was not a careers forum and he reckoned that that title was a misnomer . |
| 23 | He stated that supporting evidence was on a videotape stored in a New York bank vault . |
| 24 | He sees that this thing is in everybody 's interest and gives me protection . |
| 25 | The point that in dreams we see things ‘ as existing at a great distance ’ indicates that this objection can be answered , but he acknowledges that some explanation is needed . |
| 26 | He reiterates that all knowledge is ‘ ultimately ’ derived from the senses , but explains that this does not mean that it directly comes from it . |
| 27 | He warned that economic development was lagging so far behind that of the rest of the EC that the EC 's " course towards the single market , monetary union and European unification is in danger of being permanently undermined " . |
| 28 | The reference to excuses for crime is likely to be interpreted in some circles as a challenge to the Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr George Carey , who was heavily criticised by Conservatives last year when he implied that urban deprivation was to blame for the Tyneside riots . |
| 29 | He decided that this clergyman was in the clouds and out of the reach of the common man . |
| 30 | He urged that military support be sent immediately to protect humanitarian convoys entering Sarajevo . |