Example sentences of "[that] he [vb -s] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stone , a man who has a strong sense of his own importance if nothing else , has told Premiere magazine that he hopes the film will be a ‘ Vietnamese Gone With The Wind ’ . |
| 2 | He says that he hopes the visit will finaly allay any fears people may have . |
| 3 | It was clear from Mr Lamont 's comments that he hopes the restructuring of the system will improve the investment climate for larger projects which create the bulk of the jobs in platform yards and oil-related engineering work . |
| 4 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 5 | While Max Warren is right to caution against an obsessive preoccupation with numbers , I believe that he overstates the case when he is so dismissive of all quantity measurement . |
| 6 | He added , ‘ I get the impression that he considers the choice for Britain to lie between conventional military action or conventional diplomatic action , and that he denies the possibility of a third course in between . |
| 7 | So , if the owner of goods merely allows another person to have possession of them , ( e.g. at a left luggage office ) that act will not raise an estoppel for it does not convey to others that he considers the person in possession to have the right to dispose of them . |
| 8 | But you know you 'll always get the chap that comes along and lifts the guard to get his hand in and he loses a finger and he blames that he blames the firm . |
| 9 | And make sure that he isolates the plant . |
| 10 | I know that he appreciates the importance of infrastructure improvements to stimulate and encourage inward investment . |
| 11 | It is at the point in Scale 2 , where Hilton starts to emphasise this , that he uses the image of the ladder to look back at what has gone before , and to point the way ahead : The rest of the book illuminates the subtle inner movements of the personality in which man engages with the power of God to come to a knowledge of his being , the " wirkyng in a soul " when Scale 2 is more engaging as a work which marshals literary resources to illuminate Christian mystical theology . |
| 12 | Sometimes we catch the novelist positively shaping and manipulating the narrator : ‘ The chronicler pretends for his part that he feels the sorrow of a Christian … |
| 13 | Moore 's terminology is complicated by the fact that he allows the possibility of properties which are not natural , without being non-natural in the special sense in which value properties are . |
| 14 | That way we can see that he gets the credit . |
| 15 | In a spirit of friendship across the Floor of the House , I have to say that if the hon. Gentleman really thinks that he advances the cause of housing by denigrating my hon. Friend the Minister for Housing and Planning , he displays an ignorance that is staggering even by Labour party standards . |
| 16 | I mean th there 's one little phrase that I picked out of Good which o regarding the , the pension regulator and he actually used the word that he envisages the pension regulator and I now quote will be less pro-active than the F S A regulators . |
| 17 | You will learn that at the age of nineteen he was practising his public speaking at Hyde Park Corner ; you will learn that he reads the Sun to keep his finger on the public pulse . |
| 18 | In the case of Jesus it might be thought that he represents the management , not the workers . |
| 19 | His eldest brother , Darry , could be compared to Celie 's husband , Albert , in that he represents the head of the family and as such takes the lead in the running of things . |
| 20 | ‘ All I would say is that he deserves the chance to keep on going and defend his title . ’ |
| 21 | For example , if an employee writes a computer program to help with his work but he is not employed as a computer programmer , his job is not to write computer programs and an employer can not necessarily assume that he owns the copyright in that particular program . |
| 22 | I would remind you that he owns the magazine . |
| 23 | So severe does Naylor believe this question of interdependency to be that he devotes the whole of his 1986 study to an attempt to develop an alternative to the portfolio matrix . |
| 24 | He is right to insist that he rejects the material world of philosophers , such as Descartes and Malebranche , a world that is only indirectly perceived r=itvia our ideas . |
| 25 | Similarly , the heat of a material thing being something that we feel with some part of our body , what can someone mean who says that he perceives the heat of something directly ? |
| 26 | It is of interest that he notes the reader may be ‘ startled ’ by this last assertion . |
| 27 | The result will often be that he wins the race . |
| 28 | He added , ‘ I get the impression that he considers the choice for Britain to lie between conventional military action or conventional diplomatic action , and that he denies the possibility of a third course in between . |
| 29 | He might also have added that he plays the game rather well . |
| 30 | Callinicos , defence of Marxism is erudite and compelling , and the fact that he runs out of steam over post-war art is of less moment than the fact that he takes the range of issues seriously enough to discuss them at all . |