Example sentences of "he [verb] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by this time he realised that the best opportunities came to those who kept their feet on the ground — not their heads in the clouds . |
| 2 | He realised that the Communist parties had lost touch with their peoples and that he could not logically denounce Stalinist terror and neo-Stalinist stagnation in his own country without accepting the same for the countries which Stalin forcibly incorporated into the Soviet empire . |
| 3 | Or how about if he realised that the real reason I had been looking ‘ better ’ lately had something to do with a £6.99 bargain hair colourant from Clairol ? |
| 4 | ‘ It was then that he realised that the whole island was alive . |
| 5 | Did he think that the Rubenesque figure was still fashionable ? |
| 6 | At the same time , he ruled that the national parks in Kerry and Connemara would be no-go areas for mining . |
| 7 | He ruled that the public interest in ensuring enough blood outweighed the public interest in allowing AB to seek justice through the courts . |
| 8 | Earlier , in June , the Finance Minister , Theodor Stolojan had said that it was not possible suddenly to remove controls on prices without creating an inflationary spiral in the ensuing price-wage explosion , although he agreed that the current pricing mechanism distorted prices and adversely affected supply and demand . |
| 9 | Marshal Terauchi , Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Region , dismissed this claim ( 17 July ) though he agreed that the former Netherlands Indies would be given Japanese-style independence . |
| 10 | Like Cutler , he sees the historical source as the conjunction of electric media and black American ‘ folk ’ forms , and , also like Cutler , he insists that the new music is quite distinct from earlier written popular music . |
| 11 | He insists that the Extractive reserves are viable economically as well as socially . |
| 12 | Linguists today would consider this question a silly and misguided one ; while according to John Lyons , author of a wide-ranging introductory reference text , gender often reflects some kind of semantic criterion , he insists that the crucial factor is ‘ not necessarily sex ’ . |
| 13 | At a banquet hosted by Yang Shangkun on Nov. 1 Nixon described the June crackdown as " excessive and unjustified " , saying that it had damaged US respect and confidence in the Chinese leadership and , speaking to Li Peng , he argued that the two countries ' differences over the events in June were " huge and unbridgeable " , but that Sino-US relations should not be allowed to founder over the issue . |
| 14 | He argued that the best action for management is to ‘ provide the climate and proper nourishment and let the people grow themselves . |
| 15 | In Capital , Volume 3 Marx noted this trend when he argued that the increasing size of enterprises made it impossible for them to be run by a single person . |
| 16 | This strengthened Eden 's hand as he argued that the diplomatic options should be exhausted before attention turned to a possible defensive alliance to protect Western interests in South-East Asia . |
| 17 | Debate over the security of the Church found a focus in the Convocation controversy , largely triggered by Francis Atterbury 's famous tract , Letter to a Convocation Man of late 1696 , where he argued that the only way to stem the growth of heresy and blasphemy was through Convocation , the Church 's own deliberative and legislative body . |
| 18 | He argued that the established system made " the moderates too much the prisoners of the extremists " ; he made an " unashamed plea for the strengthening of the political centre " ; and he considered that " the case of proportional representation is overwhelming " . |
| 19 | He argued that the Holy Office had already yielded a great deal . |
| 20 | On leaving office he argued that the top level of the civil service needed an injection of fresh blood . |
| 21 | For example , he argued that the corporate lawyer acted as a key go-between in the affairs of business , political and military elites . |
| 22 | He argued that the National Curriculum had rendered such freedom unnecessary because there were fewer differences between syllabuses . |
| 23 | He argued that the old distinction between the offence of false pretences and larceny had been preserved . |
| 24 | He argued that the simplest designs were best . |
| 25 | He argued that the physical capabilities of the plant determined where it could or could not live , and studied the effects of various environmental factors , especially water , in determining the prevailing vegetation . |
| 26 | ‘ He agrees that the best place for Elinor is an English nursing home where she can get round-the-clock medical care if necessary . |
| 27 | He agrees that the Conservative party preaches financial prudence and this is n't the kind of thing it should doing . |
| 28 | He agrees that the Conservative party preaches financial prudence and this is n't the kind of thing it should doing . |
| 29 | Then he realized that the only thing of Jenny 's which was there was the familiar , wide , all-illuminating grin on the face of the young man in muddy rugby kit who was walking alone in the picture . |
| 30 | After the battering the team had taken in Australia , he realized that the first job was to restore morale , and he did manage to instil some of his own determination into his players . |