Example sentences of "he [verb] that [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He realised that fine-enough markings would be too difficult to read so he wound along a part of one arm of the balance a tight spiral of very fine brass wire , extending from where the suspended weight would balance metal A ( suspended in water ) to where it would balance metal B ( suspended in water ) . |
| 2 | He argued that many organisations ( especially those that were relatively long-lasting and dependent on leaderships for their organisation and continuance ) could be interpreted in terms of the transference of early childhood affections . |
| 3 | The theory was first put forward by H R Buchanan in his Manual of Psychometry in 1889 , when he argued that all objects contain the history of the world because they are connected to the Akashic Chronicles . |
| 4 | He argued that these publications were the precursors of the flood of artistic , intellectual and political creativity that accompanied the move towards colonial independence . |
| 5 | Eschewing strategic analysis in favour of a more polemical approach he argued that these concessions were to be used as ‘ trans-shipping points for American combat units that are to carry out punitive operations against the peoples of the Near and Middle East , as well as in Africa ’ . |
| 6 | He argued that fewer houses at the Cleveland end of the line would be affected by overhead lines than at present because 31km of existing pylons would be demolished as part of the scheme . |
| 7 | Hurst 's voice had risen a little , but he dropped it again as he realized that several pairs of eyes were watching them with interest . |
| 8 | And he recommended that most prisons should be ‘ community prisons ’ catering for a wide variety of prisoners from their locality , a prescription which does not seem readily compatible with the notion that this sort of mixture is conducive to disorder . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He supposes that some frogs are sitting on the coping stones of a circular lily pond . |
| 12 | The most prominent of these were hilltops , and he found that all leys had a hilltop for at least one of their terminal points . |
| 13 | In particular , he found that many researchers admitted to giving cited works positive and negative credit simultaneously in the same reference , a finding which supports the contention advanced by MacRoberts & MacRoberts ( 1984 ) that authors dissemble to diffuse the impact of negative references . |
| 14 | In later years , when he was in the position of having to counsel others he found that these doubts were quite common , and in answering their doubts he answered his own as well ! |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He concludes that these systems show a number of deficiencies in dealing with UDC numbers unless written with UDC in mind . |
| 17 | Tycho Brahé opted out of the Copernican research programme and initiated another when he proposed that all planets other than the earth orbit the sun , while the sun itself orbits a stationary earth . |
| 18 | Yet he accepts that these countries need small , defensively equipped armies that could make a potential attacker think twice . |
| 19 | When the pope asked for some sign by which he could tell ‘ which requests are important to us and are dear to our heart , and which are not ’ , Edward indicated early in the new year that he would mark such requests with the words Pater Sancte , written in his own hand , but he promised that these requests would be employed with restraint — ‘ only as we can and ought ’ . |
| 20 | He says that many students knew very little about the drugs they were taking . |
| 21 | Thus he says that many varieties of domesticated species , fancy pigeon breeds for example , are monstrous not adaptive ; they can only be maintained by artificial feeding and breeding , including selective breeding ; they are quite unlike wild , natural and adaptive varieties and even more unlike wild species . |
| 22 | But following a shake up last year in internal procedures , he says that most applications for cash are dealt with in a couple of months at the most . |
| 23 | He says that any cavers worried for their health should get a medical check up . |
| 24 | When David Bailey was sixteen years old , he saw a photograph of Picasso 's paintings in Life magazine ; he says that those images changed his life . |
| 25 | He says that some definitions , such as that of ‘ place ’ , do not express the causes of what they define , for there are none . |
| 26 | He says that some members of Olympic committees will have to stay in hotels . |
| 27 | He says that some mines are picked up by children , they explode when the children play with them , causing terrible injuries . |
| 28 | He says that some children ask , but then find that their headmaster refuses ! |
| 29 | Will he confirm that many aspects of social security systems in other countries compare unfavourably with ours ? |
| 30 | Will he confirm that those luxuries included televisions ; and does he agree that if there is not to be an income tax rate of 35p to support those massive spending plans , they can be supported only by a large increase in VAT ? |