Example sentences of "that he [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Green declined to answer questions on political and privatisation issues , but it is known that he hopes to keep the InterCity brand as a marketing concept to compete with coach companies and airlines , although the Government wants to break up InterCity into separate operators . |
| 2 | He says that he hopes joining the group will benefit his waterfowl collection . |
| 3 | People realized it could n't when , in nineteen sixty four , a biologist by the name of Wyn Edwards at the University of Edinburgh actually bothered to publish a book arguing the theory , and when Wyn Edwards argued the case , almost immediately most people began to realize that it , that it did n't make sense and that most of the evidence that he thought supported the theory does n't in fact do so , and today Wyn Edwards has himself refused it , even he now er admits that group selection er can not work . |
| 4 | His defence advocate , James Reilly said : ‘ It is to his credit that he returned to face the music . ’ |
| 5 | On 16 November 1987 solicitors acting for the first defendant wrote saying that he hoped to sell the property , and the proceedings were adjourned generally . |
| 6 | The DP 's president , Sali Berisha , said on March 24 that he hoped to form a coalition government with " outside personalities " . |
| 7 | Lin says that he hoped to issue the Tchaikovsky with the Glazunov concerto , which is at least an unusual ( though not an unprecedented ) coupling . |
| 8 | For his part , Yeltsin on May 29 said that he hoped to build a partnership with Gorbachev " not on confrontation but on a businesslike basis , on dialogue and talks " . |
| 9 | In a letter written just before this last trip he asked the Bishop to act as his next-of-kin , mentioned a small legacy to the diocese , and added that he hoped to benefit the Church in Burma with many years of service rather than with a paltry sum of money . |
| 10 | I mean , he did n't know about genes and he was rather lucky that he chose to study the aspects of things he did . |
| 11 | As he has outlined , the details of the case are extremely delicate and sensitive and , considering some of the descriptions of the case that he has given , it seems extraordinary that he chose to raise the matter on the Floor of the House . |
| 12 | In the light of the one sided nature of the contest , Glenn William was quick to highlight some of the difficulties that he felt hindered the development of British tennis players , in relation to the situation in his country . |
| 13 | He began his bookselling activities in about 1770 from his father 's shop , but had moved to 13 Aldgate High Street by the end of 1773 ; it was at this time that his first publications came out , among them the Ladies ' Museum ( 1773–1814 ) , and that he began to explore the possibilities of circulating libraries . |
| 14 | This was the closest he would come to that association of the best " minds " sharing certain fundamental ideals which had been a preoccupation of his since the early Twenties ; and indeed it was through such encounters that he began to formulate the ideas which he was to express in The Idea of a Christian Society and Notes Towards The Definition of Culture . |
| 15 | Mr P R Field of the Oldbury Steam Live Railway Museum ( Bridgnorth ) was our guest speaker on 2 February 1990 when he gave his views on Britain 's railways over the years , first explaining that it was in Scotland that he began to take an interest in them and then he become ‘ hooked ’ ! |
| 16 | And indeed it was from this time that he began to suffer the kind of serious ill health which was regularly to affect him for the rest of his life . |
| 17 | It was during the five years he spent in Orkney that he began to make a name for himself in the field of English-language studies ; he was also the writer of the ‘ Orcadian Boatman 's Song ’ . |
| 18 | And the fact that he seemed to accept the failure of his play , which in previous years would have depressed and unnerved him , is further evidence that he was now a more sanguine man . |
| 19 | ‘ The oddest thing was that he seemed to have no interest in Mandela at all . |
| 20 | In fact the chronicle succeeds in having its cake and eating it , all the way back to the stir caused by Nicholas Stavrogin 's arrival in ‘ our town ’ , when it is recorded among other things that he seemed to know a lot — ‘ But of course it did n't take much knowledge to astonish us ’ . |
| 21 | He said yesterday that he meant to conduct a referendum to test whether Transkei 's three million people wished to retain ‘ independence ’ or not . |
| 22 | And looking back on his emergence from absolute idealism , he says of himself that he came to hate the stuffiness of supposing that space and time were only in the mind . |
| 23 | The ultimate source is Sir John Hawkins , who remarks , in what appears to be a personal recollection , that Handel had ‘ a favourite Rucker harpsichord , the keys whereof , by incessant practise , were hollowed like the bowl of a spoon ’ In justice to Hawkins it must be stated that he does have a reputation for being , for his time , a careful scholar , so it is unfortunate that this brief , almost casual remark , should have been embellished with a little fanciful romancing that appears to be added only to enliven his text with some colourful anecdote . |
| 24 | Moreover , the fact that he fails to realise the ironic force of the question , and rushes into affirming that he does know the Queen is ample demonstration of the extent to which , beneath his posturing , he has lost his composure under the pressure of the situation . |
| 25 | It was at this stage that he sought to qualify the right of national self-determination even in the colonies — ‘ to support savages and barbarians ’ , he wrote in Neue Zeit , ‘ who resist the penetration of capitalist civilization would be romantic ’ . |
| 26 | If the Minister can identify any objective professional evidence that five years is the period needed , that would be very interesting , but I believe that all the expert evidence that he received supported a period of seven years . |
| 27 | There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years . |
| 28 | What he himself claimed was that he wished to enfranchise the Tibbu : he proposed to give land to Tibbu from the expropriated endowments of the Sanusi order . |
| 29 | As part of the process of opening up to the West , Kim used the occasion to give an interview to the Washington Times in which he called for improved relations with the USA and said that he wished to see a US embassy established in the capital , Pyongyang , " as quickly as possible " . |
| 30 | Mann stressed that he wished to see a solution based on substantial autonomy given to Punjab , within the framework of the Indian Constitution , but without recourse to an independent state . |