Example sentences of "he [vb -s] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He insists that the Extractive reserves are viable economically as well as socially . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ He agrees that the best place for Elinor is an English nursing home where she can get round-the-clock medical care if necessary . |
| 6 | He agrees that the Conservative party preaches financial prudence and this is n't the kind of thing it should doing . |
| 7 | He agrees that the Conservative party preaches financial prudence and this is n't the kind of thing it should doing . |
| 8 | He thinks that a proportional representation voting system is more important than the constitutional future of Scotland . |
| 9 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |
| 10 | He thinks that the ancient sites were locations where altered states of consciousness could more readily occur . |
| 11 | He thinks that the likeliest area of ACT reform is the provision of a friendly UK base to act as a holding company for the European operations of UK or Japanese companies , allowing profits to flow through to the ultimate parent without the imposition of an ACT barrier . |
| 12 | He thinks that the magic ingredient is silicon : a relative deficiency of silicon in soft water lets aluminium concentrations build up , especially under the conditions produced by acid rain . |
| 13 | He thinks that the fundamental failure in the proposals is a lack of measures to identify the original polluters and to make sure that they pay the clean-up costs . |
| 14 | Some teachers said the first draft of the unit was biased toward an anti-nuclear view , Ris concedes , but he adds that the final version is more balanced . |
| 15 | He adds that the private client business produces an average of around 0.35% commission as opposed to the industry 's norm of around 0.5% . |
| 16 | He adds that the Greek government 's assessment makes no allowance for evaporation and calculates the reduction in the amount of water reaching the wetlands on the basis of the present total flow rather than on the present volume reaching Missolonghi . |
| 17 | He accepts that every Special Constable has to go through the process of gaining the confidence of his regular colleagues . |
| 18 | While he accepts that the political system does possess power this , for him . |
| 19 | He says that a good doctor should always make the patient feel comfortable about examinations , but patients should also make sure that another person is on hand . |
| 20 | He says that a substantial amount has been paid in benefits , it 's not true to say that they owe the tenants a large amount of arrears . |
| 21 | He says that a new generation of students has been considering the " facts " that remain from a very different angle . |
| 22 | He says that a lower rice price would not only help his constituents but also make Japan 's economy stronger — which is , after all , a good nationalist aim . |
| 23 | He says that the minimum return he wants from his visit to Berne 's all-seated Wankdorf stadium is a draw . |
| 24 | But does not Dr. Jackson have a powerful point when he says that the new system — This is a man working in the system . |
| 25 | Sandy Lyle says fairness is what makes a good course … it 's important to be able to see the dangers from the tee … he says that the new Oxfordshire club has everything to make it a success … a lovely club house … good parking … within easy reach of motorways and is built for big tournaments |
| 26 | He says that the two quotations demonstrate where ‘ Way and Heathcote part company irrevocably ’ ( p. 8 ) , and he is right , but it is interesting to note that they both value intuition . |
| 27 | And he says that the European Commission , which has been trying to break down trade barriers in pharmaceuticals since 1975 backs him . |
| 28 | He says that the transitional period may be extended . |
| 29 | Moreover , he says that the present level of interest rates may mean that instead of prices stagnating next year they could fall by around 10 per cent . |
| 30 | He says that the only way you can tell they 're fake , is to look at the stitching on the labels . |