Example sentences of "he [verb] that [det] [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 | In this book he argued that all life should be a preparation for dying . |
| 3 | Then he remembered that his wife had been there when old Sally had died , and he realized that this information might be worth something . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And , finally , he announced that another referendum would be held in January 1961 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | Will he confirm that that squadron will continue to enjoy old and new opportunities ? |
| 12 | He added that any resistance would " be crushed " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | He guessed that these effects might be due to intoxication by one of the compounds he was working with , and confirmed his idea by deliberate experiment . |
| 16 | He predicted that this redundancy would facilitate comprehension . |
| 17 | If the report were to be published , he forecast that most members would be willing to let their names go on it . |
| 18 | He prayed that this idea would work . |
| 19 | Is he saying that these benefits will remain taxable but that the equivalent cost of the benefit will be calculated on some different basis ? |
| 20 | Or is he saying that these benefits will not be taxable at all ? |
| 21 | On Aug. 14 , Georgian National Guard detachments were deployed in Abkhazia , following a televised address by Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze , in which he warned that all measures would be employed to secure the release of Interior Minister Roman Gventsadze and other officials , who had been taken hostage on Aug. 11 by supporters of ousted Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia . |
| 22 | Orne is certainly not enthusiastic about witnesses hypnotised during the course of police investigations later testifying in court , but he feels that such testimony may be acceptable if the entire proceedings are videotaped , so that verbal and non-verbal cueing can be picked up , the independent hypnotist is ignorant of the details of the case , and the subject 's contacts with all possible sources of information about the case are known . |
| 23 | After the meeting he insisted that both governments would keep searching for ways to convene a conference and declared that the " process is not stuck " . |
| 24 | Perhaps he feared that any doubt would mean the postponement of his own release . |
| 25 | He acknowledged that the students may at first find difficulties in adjusting to the Scottish education system , the language , the weather and life in Edinburgh , and said that he hopes that these awards will remind overseas students that the University has confidence in them . |
| 26 | At the time when the Prime Minister said that if his policies ’ were not hurting , they were not working , ’ did he realise that those policies would cause the longest recession since the 1930s ? |
| 27 | He learned that that school would shortly be closing : the Roman Catholic Diocese of Shrewsbury , as the body responsible for its denominational education in Stockport , planned to build a new comprehensive secondary school in Cheadle , St. James 's , and to convert St. Michael 's on Nangreave Road into a Sixth Form College . |
| 28 | By prescribing carefully monitored , low doses of testosterone and encouraging male patients to adopt such proven stress management skills as autogenic training , he maintains that such symptoms can be rapidly and completely reversed . |
| 29 | On this basis he maintains that these adults should not be seen ‘ as agents of social control repressing the young — as reductionist social history might suggest — but as agents of socialization preparing them for their future roles as citizens in a society to which most adolescents gave unthinking and willing allegiance ’ . |
| 30 | He denied that any hardliners would be expelled , expressing the hope that ‘ they will decide to join a party which still clings to the idea of the dictatorship of the proletariat ’ . |