Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] that [num] " in BNC.

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1 In his statement , Subba Row , who is 57 years old , stressed that he believes that five years in office is sufficient , and that negotiating the International Cricket Conference agreement on South Africa , announced in January , was quite enough to be remembered by .
2 The Minister will know from many of the schemes that he visits that one of the carrots that they hold out to young people is the ability to drive vehicles off road and eventually to train for a full licence .
3 If the hon. Gentleman reads the speech by the Secretary of State 's predecessor , he will find that he promised that five places would be set aside to be decided by the local authorities .
4 He indicated , on a point of particular importance to the Chinese , that the withdrawal of a substantial number of the Soviet troops stationed in Mongolia was under active consideration ; and he announced that six Soviet regiments were being withdrawn from Afghanistan .
5 Apparently he got to hear about a particularly tricky deal prepared by three Japanese whaling companies to come with quota proposals , and he knew that one of the companies was taking a very different view from the other two , and he hoped that there could be a divide-and-rule situation set up .
6 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 .
7 And he said that one of his part-time staff secretly alleged that he discriminated against her .
8 Megarry VC found for the plaintiff and he said that four elements were necessary in testing for confidential quality : 1 .
9 And he shows that 30 June is the only date possible because the ritual , political , economic calendar is so full of appointments deemed ( in that culture ) to be pre-conditions of successful cultivation , that really 30 June is the only possible day for planting maize .
10 His diet excluded all these items and he claimed that 70 per cent of children improved considerably on this regime .
11 It had started construction on more than 1,000 new beds and he predicted that 4,785 beds would be fully operational by 1 April .
12 Occasionally , he would tell my mother something about events at school , and if he realised that one of us had overheard it , he would say , ‘ You 're deaf ! ’
13 Sam wondered what Mr Harker would say if he knew that one of his relatives was so keen to disrupt the cotton industry .
14 He ca n't say for sure , but he thinks that one of the fillings looks like Continental work , using a technique that 's not widely practised in Britain .
15 He agreed with Lord Reid that the incidence of taxation would have to be allowed for by increasing the multiplicand but he thought that ten was the right multiplier in the case .
16 But he notes that three-quarters of the dose would be from heavy ions , whose biological effects are ‘ poorly understood ’ .
17 Because he thinks that one day you might help his son . ’
18 Is it not because he believes that 2.5 million unemployed is ’ a price worth paying ’ ?
19 Now it was also interesting that after he forgot that two weeks ago we had his own Minister , David Hunt , crying on the steps of Brussels about the fact that the forty eight hour week had been passed by a majority vote , with only him opting out .
20 He was sitting beside the river watching dead leaves floating downstream when he noticed that one leaf had suddenly started to behave very peculiarly — it was floating upstream .
21 When he heard that one of these new county courts was to have its first sitting in County Hall , Lewes on 27 April 1847 , Thomas Bance , a leading tailor of the town , was quick to register claims against eight customers who had delayed paying for their suits longer than most thought it traditional to do so .
22 Just before the election , which is for Congress as well as the presidency , the ambassador of the United States caused a row when he alleged that one congressional candidate had links with drug traffickers .
23 A local coroner on a routine inspection became suspicious when he discovered that one baby had unusually high levels of a potent heart drug , digoxin , in its tissues .
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