Example sentences of "he [verb] that [adj] [noun] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realised that fine-enough markings would be too difficult to read so he wound along a part of one arm of the balance a tight spiral of very fine brass wire , extending from where the suspended weight would balance metal A ( suspended in water ) to where it would balance metal B ( suspended in water ) . |
| 2 | If the right hon. Gentleman is genuinely concerned about recovery , what does he think that higher taxes would do to it ? |
| 3 | In this book he argued that all life should be a preparation for dying . |
| 4 | Then he remembered that his wife had been there when old Sally had died , and he realized that this information might be worth something . |
| 5 | Regarding developments on the Pentium chip front , Dr Grove said he expected that Pentium-based machines would become as ubiquitous as the 80486 machines , and that the chip would be offered not only in servers but in desktop machines . |
| 6 | And he recommended that most prisons should be ‘ community prisons ’ catering for a wide variety of prisoners from their locality , a prescription which does not seem readily compatible with the notion that this sort of mixture is conducive to disorder . |
| 7 | And , finally , he announced that another referendum would be held in January 1961 . |
| 8 | Of the science fiction writers he asked that each serial should explore and extrapolate on a known scientific or cultural theme , such as nuclear war , doppler imaging or xenophobia . |
| 9 | Mr. Watkinson accepted that the closing words of section 69(1) place a difficulty in his way , but he maintained that this difficulty can not be allowed to outweigh the clear words of Lord Bridge of Harwich . |
| 10 | It has been argued that special attention should be focused upon the resilience and potential for recovery of the soil profile in view of the inputs induced by man ( Trudgill , 1977 , chapter 8 ) , and the importance of the problem is underlined by Toy ( 1982 ) in a review of accelerated erosion when he concludes that such erosion can be considered to be the pre-eminent environmental problem in the United States by virtue of its widespread occurrence and cumulative cost . |
| 11 | He concludes that agrarian reform can , therefore , play a part in raising the revolutionary potential of the peasantry ( Bossert 1980 ) . |
| 12 | Burn said that immediately after the assessors were appointed he proposed that each judge should examine the schemes separately and indicate on them which he considered to be the best . |
| 13 | If the hon. Gentleman reads the speech by the Secretary of State 's predecessor , he will find that he promised that five places would be set aside to be decided by the local authorities . |
| 14 | When the pope asked for some sign by which he could tell ‘ which requests are important to us and are dear to our heart , and which are not ’ , Edward indicated early in the new year that he would mark such requests with the words Pater Sancte , written in his own hand , but he promised that these requests would be employed with restraint — ‘ only as we can and ought ’ . |
| 15 | Qaddafi says that nations are likely to have a greater proportion of written members than tribes generally do ( III , ‘ Merits of the tribe ’ , ‘ The nation ’ ) ; and he says that shared experience can forge a common solidarity , a sense of belonging . |
| 16 | He says that processed information should be available to researchers in Europe from the summer . |
| 17 | Will he confirm that that squadron will continue to enjoy old and new opportunities ? |
| 18 | In particular , will he confirm that conventional submarines will continue to play an important role and that the story broadcast by the BBC last night as a hard fact — that the HMS Upholder class of submarines is to be sold — is completely untrue and without foundation ? |
| 19 | In a press statement , he noted that governmental exchanges would " speed up the process of the Republic of Moldava 's integration with Romania " . |
| 20 | When he noticed that linguistic usage could reflect social usage and that classificatory kinship systems encouraged group solidarity , Morgan made what we would now call a ‘ functional ’ interpretation of social phenomena . |
| 21 | He added that unlicensed premises would be a risk because Camra would have to order thousands of pounds worth of beer with no guarantee of being granted a licence . |
| 22 | He added that any resistance would " be crushed " . |
| 23 | He added that this order would leave it open to the Press to deal with the questions of principle so far as they did not apply them to the facts . |
| 24 | He added that special incentives should perhaps apply to the top 10 managers , whose performances will be crucial in retaining the franchise . |
| 25 | He clearly has a highly unrealistic view of human nature if he assumes that sexual activity will only take place when progeny is desired . |
| 26 | He believed that good architecture could only be created by good people and that you could only be good by being an unreformed Christian . |
| 27 | He believed that parliamentary government could go a great way towards securing personal liberty but ‘ neither parliamentary government nor any other form of constitution … will ever of itself remove all or half the sufferings of human beings . |
| 28 | Leavis was suspicious of the PhD , though he acknowledged that good work could , in the right circumstances , be produced in that medium , such as his wife 's Fiction and the Reading Public . |
| 29 | Now , contrary to what he had said in The Economics , he acknowledged that this exchange could only be effected via market relations , i.e. ‘ petty-bourgeois economy ’ . |
| 30 | And he claimed that Nuclear Electric can never test for every possible accident or allow for human error . |