Example sentences of "he [vb -s] that [subord] [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 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | He remarks that when the state of our minds does not appear to change we do not notice that time has elapsed . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He says that if the council gave 100% rate relief , 25% would have to be borne by tax payers£39,195 this year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He says that if the fire had melted the gas meter , there would have been an explosion . |
| 12 | 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 ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He advises that while the unit backs onto our store , as a self-contained unit , it should continue to be available for let on the open market . |
| 15 | But an FA spokesman said : ‘ Graham is not worried because he feels that if the game was being played at Wembley today , they would all be fit enough to be available for selection . ’ |
| 16 | First he notes that as the gamma ray detector was easiest to set up they started with that but , as before , obtained only inconclusive results . |
| 17 | He explains that although the parliament itself enjoys simultaneous translation facilities , the group meetings have no such luck . |
| 18 | Though he does not develop the notion , he admits that if the metaphor ‘ man is a wolf ’ restructures the attributes of ‘ man ’ to bring out his lupine characteristics , it also ‘ makes the wolf seem more human than he otherwise would ’ ( 44 ) . |
| 19 | Indeed , he suggests that if a theory of rationality should clash with science then we should change our theory of rationality . |
| 20 | He claims that until the age of seven years ‘ causality and the faculty for explanation are still unexpressed ’ ( Piaget , 1926 : 49 ) . |
| 21 | He is an experienced manager and he knows that if a player is sitting on the treatment table for two or three weeks they are bound to put on a few pounds . ’ |