Example sentences of "he [verb] that [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The principle that a defendant must take the plaintiff as he finds him involves that if a wrongdoer ought reasonably to foresee that as a result of his wrongful act the victim might require medical treatment he is , subject to the principle of novus actus interveniens , liable for the consequences of the treatment applied although he could not reasonably foresee those consequences or that they could be serious . ’ |
| 2 | This requires him to prove that if the information had been given , his decision as to treatment would have been different . |
| 3 | The police were advised that it was a potentially fatal weapon , but when the case was brought before Mr Bros at Clerkenwell , he ruled that although the pistol was a ‘ weapon ’ it was not a ‘ firearm ’ , and so did not fall within the prohibitions of the Act . |
| 4 | Discussing a book on Dostoevsky , he remarks that while the author has much of interest to say about The Idiot ‘ she does not quite persuade one that it comes off , indeed she does not really try , because like many scholars today she is more concerned with showing how the thing works than with judging if it works well . ’ |
| 5 | He remarks that when the state of our minds does not appear to change we do not notice that time has elapsed . |
| 6 | He argued that if a jury had the benefit of ‘ this further evidence ’ it ‘ might take a very different view ’ of Mrs Sutcliffe 's attitude to deals with the Press . |
| 7 | He argued that if the defendant had provided washing facilities he would not have caught the disease . |
| 8 | He argued that when a material can undergo viscous flow and also respond elastically to a stress it should be described by a combination of both the Newton and Hooke laws . |
| 9 | Nothing was said publicly , but from now on he realized that if the Council lasted more than one session , he would not be present to see it through . |
| 10 | Speaking after the news that the Liberal Democrats had taken Cheltenham , he prophesied that before the night was out there would be many more new Liberal Democrat Members of Parliament . |
| 11 | Indeed , he thinks that whereas the master fails to gain a proper sense of himself from the slave , because the slave merely carries out his ( the master 's ) will , the slave does gain a certain degree of self-consciousness by means of the work he performs for the master . |
| 12 | Does he know that since the Chancellor and the Prime Minister came to office , some 30,000 jobs , on average , have been lost every working day ? |
| 13 | He found that although the coincidence of business and political cycles was " very marked " with respect to the United States , New Zealand and Germany , this was not the case with respect to Britain because pressing action on the balance of payments swamped the cycle of economic policy-making revolving around elections . |
| 14 | He found that when a hen has decided where to nest , she works her whole body about to mould a comfortable shape , then pecks up more loose stuff to tuck in around her . |
| 15 | Additionally , he found that when a horse discovered that the messages it was trying to convey were understood , either by another horse or by a person , its range of communication could be extended considerably . |
| 16 | He found that when the predator shows a strong preference for one prey , as N. emarginata does for Mytilus edulis over M. callfornianus , no amount of laboratory training will alter this . |
| 17 | Speaking of the activities of elementary particle physicists , he writes that whereas the activity appears essential as long as we believe in the independent existence of fundamental laws that we can still hope to know better , it loses practically its whole motivation as soon as we believe that the sole objective of the scientists is to make their impressions mutually consistent . |
| 18 | He writes that while the state plan of the day was ‘ coming apart at the seams ’ , Khrushchev was toying with radical reform that would reshape the Stalinist economy , and pondering sweeping changes in the constitution of 1936 . |
| 19 | He reported that if a house caught fire nobody attempted to put it out because they were all concentrating on protecting the cats , forming up in lines to prevent the panic-stricken animals from running into the flames and burning themselves . |
| 20 | He adds that while the bestv rowers are away practising for the Olympics this year there will still be a lot of competition and younger rowers will get the chance to be at Henley . |
| 21 | He says that if the Ministry of Culture still go ahead and grant permission for the excavation to proceed , then it will be vital for them to involve scholars and specialists . |
| 22 | He says that if the council gave 100% rate relief , 25% would have to be borne by tax payers£39,195 this year . |
| 23 | He says that if the King persists in staying away , there will be mutiny if not now , then when the weather gets wetter and colder . |
| 24 | He says that if the fire had melted the gas meter , there would have been an explosion . |
| 25 | He says that when a jet of ‘ inflammable air ’ [ hydrogen ] was burned in a receiver filled with ‘ common air ’ … ‘ the common air is contracted a full fifth of its original dimensions ; immediately after the flame is extinguished , there appears through almost the whole of the receiver , a fine powdery substance like a whitish cloud ’ . |
| 26 | He submits that though the wording of section 8(2) of the Act of 1986 is at first sight difficult , there can be persons , for example , who have voluntarily agreed to abide by the rules of a recognised S.R.O . |
| 27 | But he added that while the committee considered striking Mr O'Reilly off the register , they had agreed to adjourn the hearing for six months . |
| 28 | But he added that unless a buyer could be found for the debt-ridden club , which made a £700,000 loss last year , they could join the dubious ranks of former Football League clubs . |
| 29 | He added that since the campaign started on 2 February , 175 weapons had been dumped in the bins sited at police stations in his division , 21 of them in the 24-hour period covering the time of the attack on PC Jobson . |
| 30 | He added that if the referendum rejected the programme the government would have to resign . |