Example sentences of "he [vb -s] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By contrast , Marx shows that other systems , working on different assumptions , can exist , and this for him implies that future change to a radically different social system is therefore also possible . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Because he thinks that one day you might help his son . ’ |
| 4 | He thinks that great opportunities lie ahead , but vested interests , built on the status quo , are trying to keep them out of reach . |
| 5 | Would the Prime Minister explain why he thinks that deplorable situation exists ? |
| 6 | But these are only reasons of strategy , and a pragmatist believes judges should always be ready to override such reasons when he thinks that changing rules laid down in the past would be in the general interest overall , notwithstanding some limited damage to the authority of political institutions . |
| 7 | He thinks that expanding opportunities , especially in manufacturing , meant that in some districts the earnings of women and children were able to double family income — perhaps enough to add the extra 150,000 households Eversley considered were needed to explain the leap in home demand between 1750 and 1780 . |
| 8 | His motive for doing so is that he thinks that English verse has been ill-served by prosodists in the past . |
| 9 | As his title suggests , he thinks that national pride — battered not merely by communist but by pre-war failure — played a large part . |
| 10 | If I were playing tennis , I would put the ball back in the hon. Gentleman 's court by asking whether he thinks that those claims are genuine because they have been put through someone 's letter box and because they ask the recipient to sign the form and post it back . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | When he receives that final report , will he bear in mind the fact that the security intelligence agencies rely on the use of informants , and the intelligence that they receive will never be any good unless a measure of protection can be granted to those sources ? |
| 13 | He postulates that such particles spend most of their time in a non-material or etheric state , momentarily leaping into the physical plane like a salmon leaping fleetingly into view above the water surface . |
| 14 | He supposes that some frogs are sitting on the coping stones of a circular lily pond . |
| 15 | He writes that this evidence , together with several other timings in crucial copies and printer 's proofs of the score , reveals that ‘ during Mahler 's lifetime , performances of the Adagietto by the composer as well as by his close colleagues averaged about eight minutes … if Mahler 's timings reflected only his mood at a particular concert one could understand that some conductors might not feel compelled to follow his tempos . |
| 16 | Indeed there were no significant accuracy differences between driving instructors and 13-year-olds with no driving experience ; he concludes that such judgments are based on general experience about the nature of moving objects . |
| 17 | It has been argued that special attention should be focused upon the resilience and potential for recovery of the soil profile in view of the inputs induced by man ( Trudgill , 1977 , chapter 8 ) , and the importance of the problem is underlined by Toy ( 1982 ) in a review of accelerated erosion when he concludes that such erosion can be considered to be the pre-eminent environmental problem in the United States by virtue of its widespread occurrence and cumulative cost . |
| 18 | He concludes that high relief was essentially a response to high food prices rather than to perception of a chronic employment problem . |
| 19 | He concludes that agrarian reform can , therefore , play a part in raising the revolutionary potential of the peasantry ( Bossert 1980 ) . |
| 20 | He concludes that these systems show a number of deficiencies in dealing with UDC numbers unless written with UDC in mind . |
| 21 | He adds that legal advice has indicated that there is a prima facie case against the auditors , but the decision on whether to take legal action will be made by a committee of two non-executive directors . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Yet he accepts that these countries need small , defensively equipped armies that could make a potential attacker think twice . |
| 24 | He contests that petty commodity production is a separate mode of production from the capitalist one , but that it articulates with it to facilitate the expanded reproduction of the capitalist mode ( Quijano 1974 ) . |
| 25 | He says that certain morphine like substances are released from the brain during acupuncture . |
| 26 | He says that violent death is so common that people tend to be fatalistic and unprepared to take precautions . |
| 27 | He says that bored youngsters turn to crime — joy riding cars etc . |
| 28 | The hon. Lady selects the wrong argument on which to call Professor Glennerster as witness , because he says that that argument is muddled . |
| 29 | He says that Saudi culture is different from ours . |
| 30 | Now he says that arresting drug barons is a waste of time , since their cousins , godsons or even more horrible rivals will at once fill the vacancy . |