Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In presenting the report to the national church extension committee , he made the astonishing statement that there is no longer any dire poverty in Scotland . |
| 2 | Thereupon he made the surprising comment that the agitation about his List was inspired by anti-Semitism . |
| 3 | Sir Keith Joseph offers a flexi-time history according to which , in the same speech where he entertained the spectacular belief that Britain 's streets had been plunged into insecurity ‘ for the first time in a century and a half ’ , he also conjured with a more modest timescale whereby ‘ such words as good and evil , such stress on self-discipline and standards have been out of favour since the war ’ . |
| 4 | Within this he pinned the official announcement that sentence of death had been carried out . |
| 5 | At Immigration he produced the Irish passport that the Colonel had given him . |
| 6 | He offers the unassailable proposition that without money there can be no inflation . |
| 7 | He got the strange feeling that the dragon was being made more genuine . |
| 8 | Well he thinks the only way that modern will accept the rule of one person rather than another is if they think they 're somehow there as a result of their own action , so we 'll only accept the rule of erm our leaders if we think we put them there and we take them back again , we put them there and can recall them and this for Barry is the only merit that contemporary democratic policy democratic erm systems that it allows us to think of our rulers as having some legitimate claim to rule . |
| 9 | He challenges the orthodox view that elderly people turn to formal agencies for help only when informal support is absent or inadequate . |
| 10 | He holds the romantic belief that only the wordless language of music is complete and it is music which has always helped him to live and to write . |
| 11 | Francis identifies the stages of the SI narrative as a chronological trajectory corresponding to ( i ) the Experimental Laboratory period ; ( ii ) the detonator period ( which refers to Debord 's boast that he provided the explosive machinery that ignited in May 1968 ) ; ( iii ) the Fallout period after the SI disbanded in 1972 . |
| 12 | Peter Powell 's adventures with kites had already put him into the headlines when he ‘ flew ’ his grandmother , long before he perfected the diamond-shaped stunter that made him a worldwide name from 1974 . |
| 13 | He told the Federal Assembly that the devaluation , the second in less than four months , would compensate for an excess in public spending during the past nine months equivalent to US$5,400 million . |
| 14 | He told the representative body that the talks were too confidential for us to be let into the secret . |
| 15 | He told the central committee that the new party leader , Mr Petar Mladenov , and many members of the ruling politburo were little better than the old regime . |
| 16 | He told the Dutch parliament that those countries still wanting to participate would meet shortly to decide whether to pursue the programme . |
| 17 | He told the gathered community that he was committed to proving it was not active in South Ronaldsay . |
| 18 | He told the Daily Post that it was likely there would not be a court hearing until May . |
| 19 | President Mitterrand of France attended Papeete 's celebrations of 100 years as a municipality on May 16 , 1990 , when he told the local assembly that he would help the colonies " to erase the legacy of an underlying colonial past " . |
| 20 | Law gave credence to such fears by his unashamed espousal of the image created round him ; in May 1912 he told the National Union that " nobody knows better than I do that political work can not be done on strictly business lines , but the nearer you can approach to business lines the better for the political work " . |
| 21 | With suppressed excitement and relief at the possibility of preoccupation , he told the Foreign Secretary that the crisis of the monarchy was upon them , that he ( Eden ) must go and read his own overseas correspondence on the subject ( which he had not apparently hitherto done ) , and that he must not trouble him ( Baldwin ) too much with foreign affairs just now . |
| 22 | ' He told the Conservative Party that it would be an unpopular tax when he first opposed the idea — successfully — as Secretary of State for the Environment in the early Eighties . |
| 23 | Garreton received a lot of the stick for the defeats against France and his Pumas days seem to be numbered , if not finished , especially after he told the French press that he would be playing in that country next season . |
| 24 | He told the 400-strong audience that ‘ a highly-trained workforce equals high productivity equals high profitability ’ . |
| 25 | He ignored the affronted expression that crossed Isabel 's face at this sardonic rejoinder , and continued . |
| 26 | He scored the first goal that put Spurs in the final , inspired them to victory , then went off after 60 minutes … job done . |
| 27 | His first appearance in Accra was on 20 February 1948 ; Danquah was in the chair ; he assured the packed meeting that ‘ Kwame Nkrumah would never fail them . ’ |
| 28 | Above all , he rejected the Marxist view that economic relations were always the explanation of social structure and the prime mover of social change . |
| 29 | As a demob-happy Member of the House , may I ask the Secretary of State whether he realises the absolute shambles that he has made of Territorial Army recruitment ? |
| 30 | At Nice when he heard the devastating news that his Portuguese friend , the artist Amedeo de Sousa Cardoso , had died of Spanish flu he broke down and sobbed like a child . |