Example sentences of "he [verb] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In his youth he was taught , in accordance with Hindu custom , to repeat the thousand names of God , but he realized that the thousand names of God were not exhaustive and that while God has many names and many forms he is also nameless and formless . |
| 32 | It was some time before he realized that the entire Sakata factory was lit from end to end by bright , dazzling light . |
| 33 | Phat struck the motionless corpse of the coolie who had died beside Hoc a third time before he realized that the wretched man had passed forever beyond pain and productive labor . |
| 34 | On 3 July 1992 he announced that the French people were also to be given a referendum on the subject of whether Maastricht would be ratified . |
| 35 | While Sir Lewis declared himself to be reasonably happy with the way the group 's three hotels were being used , he admitted that the 100-acre-plus ski resort was suffering from a glaring lack of investment , and poor road communications . |
| 36 | Mr Ferrucci denied that the continued dispute over the safety of asbestos had any part in the company 's decision to close the factory , though he admitted that the environmental difficulties experienced were ‘ more severe ’ than Raybestos had expected , and no other Raybestos Manhattan factories were being closed down . |
| 37 | Flying in the face of the facts , he prophesied that the economic crisis was so close that there was no time to build the party : the RCP must join the Labour Party , whose working class members , given Trotskyist leadership , would become revolutionary under the pressure of events . |
| 38 | But he 's got no , as far as I can see he 's got no convincing argument that democracy will do better , but that does n't matter because he thinks that the decisive criticism of enlightened despotism is that it wo n't improve the moral or intellectual well-being of the citizens , but if people are excluded from political decision making , they will have no incentive to educate themselves or morally improve themselves , or he thinks if they do , if a despot does allow for the moral improvement of the citizens , then citizens will no longer accept despotism so that despotism is in a way self-defeating here and if it one of the proper functions of government it ca n't survive . |
| 39 | He thinks that the ancient sites were locations where altered states of consciousness could more readily occur . |
| 40 | He thinks that the likeliest area of ACT reform is the provision of a friendly UK base to act as a holding company for the European operations of UK or Japanese companies , allowing profits to flow through to the ultimate parent without the imposition of an ACT barrier . |
| 41 | He thinks that the magic ingredient is silicon : a relative deficiency of silicon in soft water lets aluminium concentrations build up , especially under the conditions produced by acid rain . |
| 42 | He thinks that the fundamental failure in the proposals is a lack of measures to identify the original polluters and to make sure that they pay the clean-up costs . |
| 43 | He revealed that the once-struggling actress has already netted £50,000 from interviews since news broke of her affair with Minister for Fun Mr Mellor . |
| 44 | He revealed that the massive right that finished Ruddock — honed in months of intense preparation — was no lucky sucker punch . |
| 45 | How did he know that the second half would be better ? |
| 46 | Little did he know that the experienced dealers were about to teach him a lesson . |
| 47 | In relation to his work with tiny seedlings , he found that the electrical field around a sprout was not the shape of the original seed but resembled the adult plant , indicating that any developing organism is destined to follow a prescribed pattern of growth generated by the individual EM field of the organism . |
| 48 | He subjected quantities of quartz crystal to pressures similar to those occurring in active fault zones in the Earth 's crust , and he found that the piezo-electric effect did induce visible ionisation of the surrounding air , just as Persinger predicted . |
| 49 | He found that the only period to be consistent with rational expectations was from 1962 to 1969 . |
| 50 | He found that the annual output of U.S. geoscience literature increased by a factor of 10.3 in 70 years , and that the overall growth was exponential , but that the relative output of journals changes with time . |
| 51 | To his horror he found that the young boy had hanged himself in a moment of despair . |
| 52 | He found that the controlling factors were the magnifications and numerical apertures of eyepieces and objectives , transmission of individual optical elements , and other details of the optical path , including prisms , splitters and polarizers . |
| 53 | He found that the greatest number of large-scale strikes broke out when the presidents were known for their populist and pro-worker policies . |
| 54 | As a result , the Whig MP John Hervey had to work extremely hard to cultivate the corporation , and although he did use various financial incentives , he found that the best way to keep their support was by serving their interests both locally and in Parliament . |
| 55 | At dawn , he found that the transparent covering had split and thirty white insects had emerged on deck , each the size of a rabbit . |
| 56 | To his alarm he found that the brief flight had utterly exhausted him . |
| 57 | The arrangement of the exhibits was crucial : when W. C. Williamson went to Manchester to take charge of the museum there in 1836 , he found that the stuffed animals were merely arranged in ornamental groups ; he soon reorganized them systematically . |
| 58 | ‘ Look how he controlled his disappointment when he found that the dead man was not Sir Henry . ’ |
| 59 | Instead , he found that the whole matter ‘ snowballed ’ . |
| 60 | Indeed , when Tolkien arrived , he found that the Old English being dished up to the likes of Betjeman was in a grossly truncated form , and the poetry was mainly seen as a quarry for ‘ gobbets ’ — that is , short passages of a very few lines , used for the purposes of testing the candidates ' knowledge of sound-changes . |