Example sentences of "that he has [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horror depicted in Kafka 's Metamorphosis , in which a man awakens to discover that he has become a large insect , invites comparison with the norms of women 's existence — her passages from childhood to puberty , from mature womanhood to menopause and old age ; her experience of pregnancy . |
| 2 | The Leader of the House is on the Government Front Bench , and I am sure that he has heard the hon. Gentleman 's point . |
| 3 | If the vendor is to feel that he has secured a good deal , then he , like the buyer , must feel that he has won some concessions . |
| 4 | Even after a few minutes — even while the porter is still showing him to his room — Howard feels that he has understood a great deal about this city . |
| 5 | By surmounting , so he tells us , one set of obstacles in being accepted by the Balinese , he also creates the rhetorical conditions where we are likely to favour a belief that he has surmounted the theoretical obstacles attended on his methodological discovery as well . |
| 6 | The popular Scot might not relish the thought of another 10 months on the road , but at least he departs his home in the West of Scotland secure in the knowledge that he has overcome the chronic putting problems which at one time threatened to end his career . |
| 7 | I can only take it that he was n't that concerned , that perhaps the Chief Constable does n't share Mr 's concerns , and is perhaps happy that he has received the generous funding that we state he has . |
| 8 | Even for those of us who admit that he has made a rational choice on this occasion , it remains surprising that he has benefited so little from experience , that he has never made , or let God or society make for him , any previous decisions on general issues which could be of help to him . |
| 9 | Had he kicked three more penalties during the Bledisloe Cup series instead of watching them rebound off the posts or miss by a whisker , Fox 's average would have been identical to Hodgkinson 's twenty-eight points from his last two matches amounts to ample proof that he has made a complete recovery from the doldrums of Dublin last October when he spoke of retirement in the immediate aftermath of the All Blacks losing their titles . |
| 10 | Is the more optimistic forecast to be made of the dutiful immature girl who has some mildly appreciative responses , knows her books and has paid careful attention to what she has been told to think , but who has few independent ideas and writes with neither firmness nor joy ; or of the mature and independent boy , who may not have studied his notes or perhaps his texts so thoroughly , but who has a sense of relevance , whose judgements are valid , who writes with assurance and betrays in his style … that he has made a genuine engagement with the literature he has encountered ? |
| 11 | But many people will join John Bell in believing that Aspect 's experiment is as good as can be achieved , now that he has made the crucial move in introducing some time variation into the apparatus . |
| 12 | In conducting this exercise the Commissioner has explained that he has adopted the wide test of subversion formulated by Lord Harris in 1975 and that his duty ‘ is to look at each case individually and say whether the Home Secretary could reasonably take the view that the warrant was necessary in the interests of national security ’ ( Lloyd , 1987 ) . |
| 13 | Reyntiens does not deny the value of his own abstract work , but acknowledges that he has undergone a joyful renaissance over the last 12 years or so . |
| 14 | For him , to discover a new writer of genius is as satisfying an experience , as it is for a lesser man to believe that he has written a great work of genius himself . |
| 15 | ‘ You were saying that he has written a wonderful book — and that it 's going to be published ? ’ |
| 16 | Is the Minister aware that he has done a useful service to the House in spelling out the inadequacies of so many of our public services after 12 years under Tory management ? |
| 17 | In his letter to Labour MPs , Mr Foster has asked for backing on the grounds that he has seen the parliamentary party through the dark years , and now wants to guide them through better times . |
| 18 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 19 | David Waddington , the home secretary , announced that he has asked the chief constable of the West Midlands to investigate the conviction of the Birmingham six , who were jailed for an IRA bombing 16 years ago . |
| 20 | Is my hon. Friend aware that he has earned the widespread respect of British farmers by standing up for their interests ? |
| 21 | Salim is now homeless in the sense that he has shed an old tendency to nostalgia : ‘ the idea of going home , of leaving , the idea of the other place ’ , he takes to be weakening and destructive . |
| 22 | B. Teasdale reports that he has removed the loose flake ( ? ) from GFI with no change in grade . |
| 23 | He has broken his age-long silence in order to warn humankind that he has committed a dangerous ‘ syntax error ’ . |
| 24 | Perhaps also he will reflect that he has reduced the Conservative majority to its lowest since 1951 . |
| 25 | The story centres on Giorgio , a successful eye-surgeon working in Paris and his alter egos : his much younger brother Piero , who is caught up in the obscure ‘ manoeuvres ’ going on in Sicily ( it will turn out that he has sabotaged an American helicopter and is on the run ) , and Charles , a 12-year-old boy who is at the centre of the whole story . |
| 26 | If the hon. Gentleman really believes that he has outlined a proper approach , I ask him to reconsider his position . |
| 27 | I know that he had hoped to take part in this debate but had to be elsewhere ; I pay tribute to the fact that he has shown a personal interest in the case . |
| 28 | ‘ I am assured by Mr Mates that he has had no financial involvement with Mr Nadir , nor with any of his companies or with his advisers , either before he became a minister or since , ’ said Mr Major . |
| 29 | But do the movements ‘ convey information ’ to fellow workers in the hive in any more semantic a fashion than , say , a bruise on a child 's face conveys to his mother the information that he has had a nasty bump ? |
| 30 | Will he assure the House that he has had the unreserved support of the Opposition during the passage of that Bill ? |