Example sentences of "he [verb] that [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to Cyril Ray in his penetrating profile Bollinger ( 1971 ) , one house was spared and he records that fifteen years after the riots Madame Bollinger overheard a passer-by outside one of her windows say , ‘ That 's the Bollinger house , you know : we did n't touch it during the riots here — as a matter of fact , we lowered our flag to it when we passed ! ’ 'Probably the red flag , ’ Madame is supposed to have commented with pleased irony . |
| 2 | The image was well established ; and it is hardly surprising that when , in 1521 , the canny and obsessively fair-minded scholar John Major produced his book entitled A History of Greater Britain , in which he argued that better relations with England would make good sense , for political and economic reasons , the plea fell on ears deafened by the awareness that a little nation had fought off a monster by courage and tenacity . |
| 3 | He argued that two bodies of the same material but different weights would fall at different speeds . |
| 4 | He argued that sociological explanations of action should begin with ‘ the observation and theoretical interpretation of the subjective ‘ states of minds ’ of actors ' . |
| 5 | He argued that social progress towards a free-enterprise society was inevitable and saw progressive evolution as a useful foundation upon which to build a philosophy of cosmic development that would include the human race . |
| 6 | He argued that fewer houses at the Cleveland end of the line would be affected by overhead lines than at present because 31km of existing pylons would be demolished as part of the scheme . |
| 7 | He realized that one wall of the pit was convex and made of some hard substance . |
| 8 | Hurst 's voice had risen a little , but he dropped it again as he realized that several pairs of eyes were watching them with interest . |
| 9 | He admitted that some people in Hong Kong had been alarmed by reports of carnage in Peking but said this was only because they ‘ misunderstood ’ or had been misled by the ‘ false reporting and even rumour of some news media ’ . |
| 10 | John Pople , like the rest of the quantum community , is conscious of the shortcomings of quantum mechanics and he thinks that exact solutions to the Schrödinger equation for many-electron systems are unlikely to appear for many decades . |
| 11 | He found that personal exchanges with the French could not flow so freely : interruptions for translation disturbed the train of thought . |
| 12 | He found that petty crimes of stealing from work , and the more major crimes of bribery and corruption , often passed unnoticed or were dealt with informally and unofficially by firms . |
| 13 | However , he found that mature students as a whole obtained better degree results than non mature students . |
| 14 | ‘ Lie back … ’ he said thickly , his long fingers touching her boldly , and he stroked that throbbing pulse with authority and experience , his mouth against hers , his strong hand between her silken thighs . |
| 15 | Dr Alex Comfort lifted the argument to the realm of world peace when he maintained that sexual activity of every kind is necessary in order to free human beings from the instinct to fight and harm others . |
| 16 | He reported that voluntary repatriations from Hong Kong to Vietnam since March 1989 totalled 3,387 , while another 1,471 volunteers remained in the colony waiting to return to Vietnam . |
| 17 | Bukharin had already indicated a part of his reasoning when he proposed that political economy as a subject of study would disappear under socialism , because : |
| 18 | He adds that any killing of animals should be painless , and their use in experiments restricted as far as possible to ‘ the less highly organised ’ creatures . |
| 19 | He says that certain morphine like substances are released from the brain during acupuncture . |
| 20 | Being asked how he knew this he says that each carucate of land by the custom of the district contains one hundred and four score acres of arable land , which quantity there is not in that Manor . |
| 21 | Thus he says that many varieties of domesticated species , fancy pigeon breeds for example , are monstrous not adaptive ; they can only be maintained by artificial feeding and breeding , including selective breeding ; they are quite unlike wild , natural and adaptive varieties and even more unlike wild species . |
| 22 | But following a shake up last year in internal procedures , he says that most applications for cash are dealt with in a couple of months at the most . |
| 23 | He says that some members of Olympic committees will have to stay in hotels . |
| 24 | Will he confirm that many aspects of social security systems in other countries compare unfavourably with ours ? |
| 25 | Will he ensure that any suggestion of parachute recruits going to Lichfield to train with Royal Army Medical Corps recruits of both genders would be ruled out of court immediately ? |
| 26 | According to Finance Minister Georgios Syrimis , the economy in 1989 showed conditions close to those of full employment , with unemployment standing at 2.5 per cent , and he noted that key sectors of the economy , particularly tourism , construction and industry , faced labour shortages . |
| 27 | He noted that four kinds of culturally derived orientations toward politics seem to have a bearing on the pattern of opposition . |
| 28 | He added that disaffected factions within the BBC opposed to Mr Birt 's programme of reforms may have been behind some of the attempts to destabilise him . |
| 29 | He added that Croda-funded research at Stirling was now targeted towards developing a further ‘ Lorenzo 's Oil ’ which it was hoped could be used in the treatment of multiple sclerosis . |
| 30 | He believed that Soviet leaders in retrospect probably recognised that a genuinely non-aligned Afghanistan pursuing non-radical policies was a better guardian of Soviet security interests . |