Example sentences of "he [vb -s] that [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He insists that these two cases be divorced . |
| 2 | He 's been getting acting lessons and , on the phone from Tel Aviv , where he 's shooting a film called The Eleventh Station , he agrees that simple muscled heave is beginning to look a little dated . |
| 3 | Well , he understands that those Norwegian Lapps that are closer to the border than he is might not be so keen . |
| 4 | He dislikes aspects of life with Lancashire , especially the dictate that at certain times he should wear tie and blazer ; he rightly resents missing out on a sponsored car when the county toured Australia ; he recalls verbal run-ins with opponents , including Viv Richards , and believes the Australians ' tough attitude is simply ‘ rude ’ ; and he thinks that many English players are terrified long before they go out to bat ’ . |
| 5 | Mr. Justice Henry is no respecter of persons , and I hope that the hon. Gentleman has not become such a respecter of persons that he supposes that those two people were dealt with out of any consideration for who or what they were . |
| 6 | Virginia Woolf defined it inimitably when she wrote that ‘ for pages at a time he writes that terse springy prose which is the natural speech of a school of writers trained to the business of moving a large company briskly from one incident to another over the solid earth ’ . |
| 7 | So he concludes that ordinary moral judgements express the erroneous view that there are objective features of the world which intrinsically ( and not merely because , as a matter of contingent fact , we respond to them in certain ways ) require something of us . |
| 8 | He says that each ordered pair is " judged by either [ the interpreter ] or [ the utterer ] and these judgements may differ " ( my emphasis ) . |
| 9 | He says that another 5 minutes and many of the cattle would have perished , because the shed they were in exploded into flames . |
| 10 | Indeed this is the heart of Hilton 's argument for the validity of mixed life for the aspiring contemplative , for he says that this very desire , the burning coal which has to be thus nourished by a positive attitude to the demands of both active and contemplative life , is in fact God himself at the very ground of our being . |
| 11 | He says that this particular animal is a favourite . |
| 12 | He says that some contained mustard gas , which choked and burnt . |
| 13 | He ensures that this final position has the support of his boss and colleagues . |
| 14 | He asserts that modern common sense has been derived from the popular spread of scientific notions : ‘ now common sense is science made common ’ ( 1983 : 29 ) . |
| 15 | Not because he particularly approves of the exploitation of Henderson Island , but because he hopes that this latest development will force the government to come to some decision about the future of Pitcairn . |
| 16 | He hopes that another good will come from Official and Confidential . |
| 17 | Kosa sees this charismatic character as peculiar to medicine and clergy , although he notes that some Protestant denominations have weakened or eliminated the charismatic authority of the clergyman . |
| 18 | The pragmatist takes a skeptical attitude toward the assumption we are assuming is embodied in the concept of law : he denies that past political decisions in themselves provide any justification for either using or withholding the state 's coercive power . |
| 19 | He expects that many overall advantages will be achieved with the scheme . |
| 20 | He explains that some cutting oil has been noticed in a culverted drain under the shop floor . |
| 21 | He maintains that both these changes — expansion of the non-marketed sector and contraction of the marketed sector — are symptoms |
| 22 | At eighteen , he decides that some freakish wind must have mistakenly transplanted him to France : he was born , he declares , to be Emperor of Cochin-China , to smoke 36-fathom pipes , to have 6,000 wives and 1,400 catamites ; but instead , displaced by this meteorological hazard , he is left with immense , insatiable desires , fierce boredom , and an attack of the yawns . |
| 23 | Here the Crick hypothesis has an advantage over the others , in that he proposes that those mysterious extraterrestrials did not simply scatter spores willy-nilly but sent out a computer-controlled spacecraft containing the spores as cargo . |
| 24 | He suggests that many assumed effects of low vision , for example field loss , totally ignored the brain and the whole mechanics and chemistry of visual perception . |
| 25 | Vogel too , emphasizes the way company uniforms , badges or songs are used to reinforce worker loyalty and he suggests that wider social conformity and ‘ homogeneity is created and maintained by social and educational policy ’ ( Vogel 1979 p. 180 ) . |
| 26 | He suggests that this maladaptive strategy helps to explain the traumatic neuroses which sometimes follow events like bereavement , and which can be contrasted with successful adjustment in which the individual works through grief triggered by indirect reminders and gradually progresses to being able to respond to stronger reminders of the deceased . |
| 27 | And he argues that changing social relations imply the need for more specialist and responsive service delivery , while changing managerial technologies ( particularly information technology ) make it possible to flatten managerial hierarchies by removing many of the middle layers and encouraging the growth of decentralized offices with less professional specialization and a greater ability to deal with individual issues across professional lines . |
| 28 | The second and later major influence on Barth has been , again by his own admission , that of Borges and he has set on record his admiration for that writer in his most famous article , ‘ The Literature of Exhaustion ’ ( 1967 ) , in which he argues that certain literary forms may be used up and so are no longer available to the writer except as parody . |
| 29 | He argues that all other forms of therapy are simply tranquillizers , helping people to adapt rather than change , or else to find an addiction like meditation or relaxation that offers temporary relief to which we will always need to return . |
| 30 | He argues that some Conservative leaders were predisposed to fight local elections on party lines from the moment that the modern system of local government was introduced . |