Example sentences of "he [vb -s] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Orwell in his notes offers only the ghost of an answer when he remarks that Waugh 's loyalty was to a form of society no longer viable , ‘ of which he must be aware ’ . |
| 2 | His zeal does n't make him unreasonable , however , and he appreciates that things are not easy on the other side of the fence . |
| 3 | He insists that boots with reinforced soles and crampons are as essential on steeper icy slopes as is an ice axe . |
| 4 | Hardaker certainly is n't suggesting that academic qualifications should supersede spiritual criteria , but he insists that intellect and leadership are also important attributes in serving God properly . |
| 5 | In it he insists that God is in all cases acting through ‘ His minister , Death ’ , even when His intervention appears arbitrary : ‘ entering a careless family , He smites the first-born ; and , as one who will be heard , calls aloud : ‘ Awake thou that sleepest ! ’ |
| 6 | He insists that God ought to be thanked publicly for his cure , just as any other physician would be in such a case . |
| 7 | He insists that Thailand now intends to get serious about enforcing the law on a range of issues , from child prostitution to copyright piracy to safety in the workplace . |
| 8 | He agrees that skills inside small companies have to improve . |
| 9 | Raskolnikov is young , preoccupied and merely puzzled — ‘ young , abstract and therefore cruel ’ , the severe voice of the novel descries him elsewhere — but the reader attends in tragic wonder , for he understands that Marmeladov has indeed nowhere to go , a nowhere which is the finality of his loose end , at once in character , at once personal to the selfish selfless rationale of one man 's marriage and his other circumstances , personal to his ‘ destitution ’ or ‘ extremity ’ or ‘ misère ’ ( nishcheta , which he is careful to distinguish from his poverty ) , and at the same time an objective and transpersonal theme running through all Dostoevsky 's work . |
| 10 | He thinks that employers will go for the cheapest labour they can . |
| 11 | So if he thinks that Colin do have six working for him , and he 's got enough work for six , then surely there 's gon na be plenty of work for two of 'em . |
| 12 | And since every table in the application has triggers for primary and foreign keys and last update ID and data information , he thinks that 80% could go if the promised integrity enhancement features work . |
| 13 | However , he thinks that stories of one firm 's partners being forced out are often exaggerated . |
| 14 | Rather he thinks that people ought to vote on the basis of what they think is right so he uses an with the jury service at this point . |
| 15 | He thinks that Bryan Gould , by contrast , is ‘ very clever and ambitious , but he has no real roots in Britain or its culture . ’ |
| 16 | It would be interesting to know whether Petrey really does hold the views I am attributing to him , and whether he thinks that speech act theories of semantics are therefore based on a fundamental error . |
| 17 | It seems to him that he is only really preoccupied with Andrew 's leg when he thinks that Andrew is himself . |
| 18 | He thinks that justice jurors should put their personal interest to one side . |
| 19 | ‘ He thinks that Janet and John will be sad . |
| 20 | Fifth , the initiative ignores reality by failing to explain how it plans to track Windows — he thinks that Microsoft will doubtless make Windows a moving target by adding value — doing things such as bundling in Access , its new database management system . |
| 21 | Rather he thinks that ants ' social organisation and skills should make them at least as rewarding to study as the birds and mammals on which animal behaviourists have focused . |
| 22 | He postulates that IBM could create different classes of shares whose dividends would reflect performance of relatively healthy businesses such as the AS/400 and RS/6000 , and possibly AdStar storage products , but many observers now believe that nothing less than a full break-up of the company would enable the better bits to prosper and restore shareholder value . |
| 23 | He emphasises that Countrywatch is not a vigilante organisation : its operatives always work strictly within the law and in liaison with the local police . |
| 24 | Thirdly , he emphasises that fractals imply an unconventional philosophy of geometry . |
| 25 | He writes that people ‘ choose ’ yakhtaru ) members of committees ( see chapter I , ‘ Popular congresses and people 's committees ’ ) ; but everyone else called these choosings ‘ elections ’ ( intikhab ) : older people had experience , younger ones the tradition of elections under the monarchy ; and they assimilated these procedures . |
| 26 | He concludes that changes in genetic factors obviously can not explain the crime wave . |
| 27 | He concludes that theses occupy a distinctive but peripheral position in the information transfer chain . |
| 28 | His is an attempt to put emotions firmly back into studies of social behaviour and he concludes that catharsis is a potentially useful mechanism for psychic health , and that repression of emotions produces instability . |
| 29 | His discussion is based mainly on the results of field experiments , and he concludes that spiders are limited in numbers by food supplies , yet do not compete with each for food or limit the population sizes of their prey . |
| 30 | In the light of Kemp 's historiography , it is not surprising that he concludes that ideas about perception ( which were often explicitly discussed by ‘ scientists ’ and ‘ philosophers ' ) had little impact on artists ( p. 237 ) . |