Example sentences of "he [verb] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 2 | Mowbray 's hand fell to his sword hilt as he realised that great brass tongue only tolled when the Tower was under attack . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | The devil , Trent thought , and found himself smiling as he realised that continual fear had acted as a drug , lifting him free of reality in the same way that marathon runners broke through the pain barrier into an almost hallucinatory state of calm . |
| 5 | Initially , he presumed that this phenomenon was merely a personal idiosyncrasy , but later observations showed that this was not the case at all : the tensing-up of neck muscles is practically universal . |
| 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 | If the right hon. Gentleman is genuinely concerned about recovery , what does he think that higher taxes would do to it ? |
| 8 | He hypothesised that left handers who employed the upright posture ( indicative of contralateral cerebral lateralisation of language ) should perform better with the left hand than inverted sinistral writers . |
| 9 | He agreed that certain regions , even those as large as Highland could be retained . |
| 10 | He agreed that moral development was in 3 stages , but believed that these were divided into two parts . |
| 11 | He agreed that this advice had been good but said that things had now gone too far . |
| 12 | He agreed that some training groups might pull out but others would take their place . |
| 13 | The image was well established ; and it is hardly surprising that when , in 1521 , the canny and obsessively fair-minded scholar John Major produced his book entitled A History of Greater Britain , in which he argued that better relations with England would make good sense , for political and economic reasons , the plea fell on ears deafened by the awareness that a little nation had fought off a monster by courage and tenacity . |
| 14 | These ‘ social capital ’ arguments may have been what Titmuss meant when he argued that major wars increase governmental concern for women and children , and produce social policies to protect them . |
| 15 | He argued that two bodies of the same material but different weights would fall at different speeds . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He argued that Labour policy-making , though democratic in concept , was defective in practice . |
| 18 | He argued that greater emphasis needed to be placed on the practical applications of scientific work if Britain 's economic downturn were to be reversed . |
| 19 | However he argued that ancient woodlands were still under threat from new planting and new road developments — for example the proposed destruction of Oxleas Wood in south east London , to make way for a Thames crossing . |
| 20 | His position was itself controversial since he argued that former Stasi members should be integrated into the police force and the Interior Ministry to avoid their becoming a potential terrorist threat . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In this book he argued that all life should be a preparation for dying . |
| 23 | He argued that sociological explanations of action should begin with ‘ the observation and theoretical interpretation of the subjective ‘ states of minds ’ of actors ' . |
| 24 | He argued that rational people drawing up a just social contract would only be willing to grant governments the power to punish to the extent that was necessary to protect themselves from the crimes of others . |
| 25 | In addition , he argued that legalizing adoption was against the teaching of ‘ the church ’ . |
| 26 | He argued that British car users meet only 27 per cent of the real costs which their vehicles impose on society , constituting a huge burden on the economy . |
| 27 | It could he argued that Latin America offers a good example of this . |
| 28 | He argued that social progress towards a free-enterprise society was inevitable and saw progressive evolution as a useful foundation upon which to build a philosophy of cosmic development that would include the human race . |
| 29 | Though he argued that any attempt to lay down rigid rules for classifying applications would be doomed to failure' , Dobry thought that guidance should be given in a national code of practice . |
| 30 | Secondly , he argued that these consumption processes are increasingly provided by the state in a collectivized form , since they become too expensive , especially at times of economic crisis , for private firms to supply . |