Example sentences of "he [verb] [that] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ruled that damages were due for the effects of surfactants but not for a small presence of phosphates . |
| 2 | The protection board 's Mats Eriksson told BBC WILDLIFE that he agreed that locals had ‘ no reason to fear Ylva . ’ |
| 3 | Graham Shaw , then Group personnel Director , regarded the quality of search work he had experienced as satisfactory , without leaks or indiscretions ; he agreed that headhunters who could not be trusted would soon be finished . |
| 4 | He agreed that headhunters were indeed expensive , but then one is , after all , dealing with an expensive commodity — one 's senior personnel — and it is not wise to cut corners on such vital issues . |
| 5 | His zeal does n't make him unreasonable , however , and he appreciates that things are not easy on the other side of the fence . |
| 6 | He insists that boots with reinforced soles and crampons are as essential on steeper icy slopes as is an ice axe . |
| 7 | He argued that fluctuations in the earth 's climate due to geological changes might alter the proportion of reptiles and mammals in the population . |
| 8 | He argued that families would do better if their members were altruistic . |
| 9 | In his first memorandum as Minister of Internal Affairs he argued that nobles were justified in saying that the emancipation threatened their economic interests . |
| 10 | He argued that scientists have shown that even in some metals there is a vestige of the spark of life , and there are some metals of which it is difficult to say whether they are alive or not . |
| 11 | He argued that consultants were tending to stay put by the mid-1980s because of the much higher start-up costs now involved in setting up an executive search firm , which he estimated as at least £250 000 , or ten times the figure he invested back in 1973 . |
| 12 | He argued that adults must first learn how to live the new social order before trying to teach it . ’ |
| 13 | He argued that inventions have two parts : the product itself , which must be ‘ startling , unexpected and come to a world which is not prepared ’ , and the ‘ gestalt ’ in which the product is embedded : |
| 14 | Instancing Lautrec , Vuillard , Bonnard and Picasso , he argued that painters rather than graphic artists have made lithography flower . |
| 15 | He argued that criminals were physically distinguishable by , for example , large jaws , high cheek bones , extra toes and so on . |
| 16 | He argued that teenagers were wasting their opportunities at Dovercourt , keeping the futile hope alive that they would be adopted by rich families and lead a fine life , when they could have been using their time to constructive purpose . |
| 17 | He argued that societies are stratified in addition by status differences , and by party or political differences . |
| 18 | He argued that Jews , the former communist elite , liberals and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and bankers were linked in a conspiracy to destroy the government and smother the country 's national revival . |
| 19 | He argued that cells become different because , at the time of cell division , different genes are transmitted to different daughter cells ( he did not use the word gene , but that is what he meant ) ; whereas in fact all body cells contain the same genes , and become different because different genes are activated in different cells . |
| 20 | He argued that issues of fact were more difficult than in Britain because there was much false testimony and also because ‘ precision of observation with regard to time and distance is quite unknown to a large proportion of witnesses . ’ |
| 21 | He agrees that skills inside small companies have to improve . |
| 22 | Once in Siberia he realized that estimates made on paper in Moscow for the dispatch of 250 wagons a day to the Volga were completely unrealistic . |
| 23 | He realized that listings were what people liked about It . |
| 24 | The lectures which he delivered in America on this visit are not of crucial critical significance and , like other addresses of the same period , they are chiefly remarkable for the fact that he felt able to talk at some length about himself and his work — as if he realized that audiences came to see him , rather than hear anything he might care to say . |
| 25 | As the new man at Century wielding the new broom , he expected that decisions and policies would come to his desk . |
| 26 | For this reason , he recommended that gains should be charged to income tax but not to surtax . |
| 27 | He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect ’ . |
| 28 | President Alfredo Cristiani , who had threatened on Nov. 11 to break off UN-sponsored peace talks in Mexico because of the FMLN 's continuing sabotage of electricity installations , said that the government would take action to consolidate the ceasefire , and on Nov. 21 he announced that troops would suspend aerial bombardment and artillery shelling of guerrilla positions . |
| 29 | He admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the slow pace of privatisation . |
| 30 | He thinks that employers will go for the cheapest labour they can . |