Example sentences of "[be] [adj] that he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am delighted that he sees the benefits of competitive tendering and that he is anxious to ensure that further education colleges should get the best value for money . |
| 2 | I am sure that he saw the depressing report in The Sunday Telegraph that , with its customary foresight and thoughtfulness , the Treasury had decided to reject the Thameslink project . |
| 3 | He would stoop slightly and listen attentively while you spoke to him , as if it were important that he heard every word , gently sliding his spectacles up the bridge of his nose as he did so . |
| 4 | She had been disappointed that he showed no love of the poetry and books which meant so much to her , only reading about industrial history and dry facts and figures . |
| 5 | Therefore it is understandable that he won a commission at the turn of the century from a recently formed Board of Agriculture for 200 portraits of representative breeds . |
| 6 | Mancini 's account is an inversion of that suggested here , but it is possible that he had the spectrum of conciliar opinion right and then misread its implications . |
| 7 | Mancini 's account is an inversion of that suggested here , but it is possible that he had the spectrum of conciliar opinion right and then misread its implications . |
| 8 | It is not known how he was related to former kings of Mercia , but it is possible that he represented a line claiming descent from Penda . |
| 9 | Rizzo maintains no more than that it is possible that he wrote the poem . |
| 10 | In this he was only following in Lanfranc 's footsteps , and it is clear that he expected the king to exercise more authority in ecclesiastical affairs than the more ‘ advanced ’ ecclesiastical theorists of his time thought tolerable . |
| 11 | Paul writes that he is ‘ in ’ God — and as we look at the way that he wrote other letters , it is clear that he made a great effort to maintain that special relationship . |
| 12 | Gloucester was much in demand as an arbiter and as a source of legal redress , and it is clear that he took the matter seriously . |
| 13 | Gloucester was much in demand as an arbiter and as a source of legal redress , and it is clear that he took the matter seriously . |
| 14 | It is clear that he has a well-defined professional identity and authenticity which have their roots in his strict adherence to his own therapeutic tradition ( ayuverdic medicine ) , in contrast to the ‘ flexibility ’ and eclecticism of many therapists in the West . |
| 15 | Although he has been accused , of course , of social snobbery , I think it 's clear that he observed the life around him closely and critically . |
| 16 | And he 's convinced that he pinched a Jacobite Guinea from a widow in Berthing . |
| 17 | It 's ironic that he chose a Sunday to first exercise his power . |
| 18 | ‘ It is incredible that he made the mis-statement about Ohio other than wittingly and dishonestly . ’ |
| 19 | It is almost contra bonos mores , and certainly contrary to all the principles of natural justice , that a man should institute proceedings against another , when he is conscious that he has no good cause of action . |
| 20 | It is likely that he chose a group of men to be his special disciples — apostles — because at that time a women would not have had the freedom to become travelling evangelists — to go round preaching and teaching . |
| 21 | When Gandhi maintains that by means of prayer he invokes the divinity within himself it is evident that he draws no hard-and-fast distinction between the Self or Ātman within and God or Truth . |
| 22 | It is evident that he has no difficulty either in describing himself as a Dvaitin or Dualist , or as a follower of Viśi ādvaita or qualified non-Dualism , namely , non-Dualism with distinctions . |
| 23 | It is essential that he spots the oncoming fish while it is still far away from him . |
| 24 | The pamphlet said : ‘ The evidence is overwhelming that he arranged the perpetration of a major war crime in the full knowledge that the most barbarous and dishonourable aspects of his operations were throughout disapproved and unauthorised by the higher command , and in the full knowledge that a savage fate awaited those he was repatriating . |
| 25 | ( It is notable that he equates the simple , the sensuous , the repeated , with the childish . ) |
| 26 | ( it 's regrettable that he wrote the letter ) he wrote the letter sadly |
| 27 | For surely it is true that whosoever will understand British politics before all things it is necessary that he comprehend the events of 1931 . ' |
| 28 | Although it is true that he understood the distinction between a logical argument about the truth — falsity of religious propositions , and an empirical analysis of who holds which beliefs , in which groups — Freud 's explanatory theory is based on a judgement about the rationality or otherwise of religious beliefs and practices . |
| 29 | It is true that he knew the Prime Ministers of the later 1940s and early 1950s , Attlee and Churchill , personally , and he was not averse to breaking protocol by raising policy matters with them behind the back of their Minister of Fuel and Power on a few occasions . |
| 30 | If it is true that he saw the Church in the form of a pyramid , as many people did , with authority flowing down from himself to cardinals , bishops and then to priests , then a Council had no place in any such scheme of things : it only confused the pattern of authority . |