Example sentences of "he [verb] [that] [det] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The theory was first put forward by H R Buchanan in his Manual of Psychometry in 1889 , when he argued that all objects contain the history of the world because they are connected to the Akashic Chronicles . |
| 2 | He postulates that such particles spend most of their time in a non-material or etheric state , momentarily leaping into the physical plane like a salmon leaping fleetingly into view above the water surface . |
| 3 | The most prominent of these were hilltops , and he found that all leys had a hilltop for at least one of their terminal points . |
| 4 | In particular , he found that many researchers admitted to giving cited works positive and negative credit simultaneously in the same reference , a finding which supports the contention advanced by MacRoberts & MacRoberts ( 1984 ) that authors dissemble to diffuse the impact of negative references . |
| 5 | He concludes that these systems show a number of deficiencies in dealing with UDC numbers unless written with UDC in mind . |
| 6 | Yet he accepts that these countries need small , defensively equipped armies that could make a potential attacker think twice . |
| 7 | He says that many students knew very little about the drugs they were taking . |
| 8 | He says that any cavers worried for their health should get a medical check up . |
| 9 | When David Bailey was sixteen years old , he saw a photograph of Picasso 's paintings in Life magazine ; he says that those images changed his life . |
| 10 | He says that some children ask , but then find that their headmaster refuses ! |
| 11 | Will he confirm that those luxuries included televisions ; and does he agree that if there is not to be an income tax rate of 35p to support those massive spending plans , they can be supported only by a large increase in VAT ? |
| 12 | He noted that these talks showed that ‘ the difference in social systems can not be an obstacle in establishing in the region a zone of peace , independence , freedom and neutrality , a zone of stability and prosperity ’ . : |
| 13 | He added that these countries reflected more than 75 per cent of the total revenues of the two seperate firms . |
| 14 | He believed that these monuments succeeded compositionally from five or six angles . |
| 15 | He claimed that such irregularities invalidated the order and that it should accordingly be set aside . |
| 16 | When he was asked why he himself did not become one , he replied that all men wanted to be Senators but he did not ; he did not want to be the same as other men who were as the uncoloured cloth of the Toga but he wished to be the red , that small and brilliant portion which causes the rest to be comely and beautiful . |
| 17 | In a war-time article on Smollett he remarked that several writers had recently tried to ‘ revive the picaresque tradition ’ , instancing Waugh and Aldous Huxley — adding that the experiment had not been entirely happy , if only because they had betrayed a sense of strain in an effort to be shocking . |
| 18 | He discovered that many studies had found small but statistically significant correlations between life events which had forced individuals to alter their life-style , such as bereavement , loss of job , etc. , and the frequency , severity and duration of illness . |
| 19 | On returning to England , he discovered that several hours appeared to have separated the time of the eclipse in Italy and in England . |
| 20 | He was educated in Paris , and when he heard that some Americans had been present at today 's ceremonies he expressed a wish to meet you . " |
| 21 | He observed that few libraries had developed a comprehensive approach to stock management , and that , on average , university libraries were acquiring eight times as many materials as they discarded . |
| 22 | However , I know that my right hon. Friend the Leader of the House is operating under constraints and that he feels that those arrangements represent the best way to proceed . |
| 23 | And the third was as a confessor , because he knew that many souls valued him in this work . |
| 24 | He knew that these beetles come to dead bodies , on which they feed and lay their eggs . |
| 25 | He felt that these men had , ‘ an added stature which above ground they lacked ’ , and that , in spite of the work in this nether world , this place held for them , sub-consciously perhaps , an element of daily enthralment . |
| 26 | He proved that all fields fall into two categories : those whose unique minimal ( so-called prime ) subfield is essentially the same as the rational numbers and the others where it is essentially the ( finite ) Galois field unc ( see Section 3.10 ) . |
| 27 | He denied that any Palestinians had been killed and tortured , but admitted that a small number had been detained because they had " committed crimes " against Kuwaitis during the occupation . |
| 28 | He said that several players dragged John Newton away and he never had a chance to kick Mr Hallam in the face or punch him . |
| 29 | He said that these visits had given him " the opportunity to give personally an explanation of the political background " to the dispute with Tito . |
| 30 | Holomisa had ended Transkei 's state of emergency on Nov. 7 , 1989 [ see p. 37033 ] , freed ANC and PAC prisoners , and encouraged contact with the ANC ; during a visit to the United States at the end of January 1990 he said that these measures showed a commitment to change and to unity on the part of all black people , and that he wanted to make Transkei 's independence an instrument of liberation for South Africa . |