Example sentences of "he [be] [adj] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is with trifles and when he is off-guard that a man best reveals his character . ’ |
| 2 | Commenting cautiously on the present situation for the newspaper Kultura , the Chairman of the Archaeo-Geographic Commission of the Russian Academy of Sciences , Academician Sigurd Schmidt , has said that he is convinced that a library belonging to the Muscovite sovereigns does in fact exist , and that , wherever it may be located , it will be possible to find at least fragments of what is left . |
| 3 | He is convinced that a Cabinet minister is plotting against him and determined to find out who it is . |
| 4 | A complaint must be made in writing to a councillor of the authority concerned for forwarding to the commissioner , although the commissioner may consider a complaint direct if he is satisfied that a councillor has been requested to pass it on , and has failed to do so . |
| 5 | Lord declares that he was unaware that a contract had actually been signed with Harris — though he knew Harris was keen to write the biography — at the point when he wrote his own outline . |
| 6 | When Philip Jessup visited MacArthur in January 1950 the general stated that the Soviet Union should perceive the advantages to be derived from a Japanese treaty and he was sure that a diplomat like Jacob Malik would appreciate the position . |
| 7 | He was sure that a bishop was not stopped by his bishoping from going on with some scholarly work . |
| 8 | He was convinced that a career lay in sport and reckoned the media influenced his perception of himself . |
| 9 | He was confident that a letter to the government in Peking would secure us a gift from the People 's Republic of a brace of breeding yaks . |
| 10 | But he was angry that a man of Pyle 's eminence in the bank could be ripping off client money for his own enrichment . |
| 11 | Roderick O'Sullivan , who has carried out research for programmes such as Channel Four 's Fragile Earth , said he was concerned that a mystery disease which wiped out half the swan population at the bay last winter had re-emerged . |
| 12 | He forced his mind into action , though he was aware that a state of panic and a temperature around zero were not the best conditions for clarity of thought . |
| 13 | He was aware that a captain with a record such as his has a big advantage , since any troops will respond better to a leader they know has been through the fire himself , and so he knew just what he could ask of his bowlers . |
| 14 | He was optimistic that a path would be cleared today . |
| 15 | He was worried that a dairymaid might leave the dairy , and then her cows would not like being milked by a stranger . |