Example sentences of "[noun pl] ' [noun] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Magellan , overjoyed and believing that his ultimate goal was within his grasp , brushed aside the doubters ' view that he should , despite the discovery , turn back eastwards for the Moluccas . |
| 2 | He graduated from Valdese High School , studied chemistry at Wake-Forest University in North Carolina and then had to face a hard choice between his parents ' wishes that he return to work in the family businesses and his own strong interest in chemistry . |
| 3 | They left Verdeţ unsure about how Ceauşescu would react to the miners ' insistence that he himself should come . |
| 4 | Well , perhaps this is a few too many , but he knows after many years ' experience that he can ask for this and that it is necessary . |
| 5 | He described how it was only after four years ' teaching that he had begun to question what he was doing on the grounds of both commonsense and increasing knowledge . |
| 6 | His century , the slowest ever for Australia , almost endorsed the selectors ' view that he had no part in the one-day side , while underlining what truly Test calibre he was . |
| 7 | He pushed for the formation of the government-funded Teesside Development Corporation and pours cold water on critics ' suggestions that he has failed the region over the relocation of the Ministry of Defence quality assurance unit . |
| 8 | William Waldegrave , the health secretary , rejected nurses ' demands that he delay the government 's NHS reforms because patients ( they said ) are suffering . |
| 9 | There is the rumbling , heard during the election campaign , that his organisation ‘ United We Stand America ’ is far from being the grass-roots citizens ' army that he says it is , more a body tightly controlled by Mr Perot and a handful of lieutenants in Dallas . |
| 10 | This was the first of many palatial properties occupied by Franco over the next forty years — a tendency which is difficult to reconcile with his hagiographers ' insistence that he was a man of austere tastes and habits . |