Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [adv] [verb] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may well find that the economy does n't react as much to his measures as he hopes . |
| 2 | For example an official may refuse to issue a necessary certificate except upon payment of a fee which exceeds that which he may lawfully exact or an authority may threaten seizure of goods or disconnection of vital supplies if an unlawful demand is not met . |
| 3 | He may alternatively request that the view be detailed to a lower level , in order to ascertain whether or not a geometric clash actually occurs . |
| 4 | He may falsely believe that the difference between something 's looking blue and its looking grey can not be merely a perceived-as appearance difference , but that there must be a difference in the presentation appearance . |
| 5 | He must not imply that the Conservative group have been working actively hard and long and finding sites . |
| 6 | But he must now know that an Iraqi démarche around January 15th — perhaps a partial withdrawal from Kuwait — would make the use of force bitterly controversial at home . |
| 7 | However , even if the plaintiff overcomes the difficult hurdle of proving that Core Rule 28 ( or a comparable SRO rule ) has been breached , he must further show that the contravention caused him loss . |
| 8 | In view of all this , he might finally decide that the time had come to give up further arguing and accept what each of us has told him . |
| 9 | He could n't tell whether the whistler was moving away from or towards him . |
| 10 | He has told me he loves my daughter and bitterly regrets the affair which , he says , he could n't stop because the girl was blackmailing him and threatening to tell his wife . |
| 11 | Meredith was amazed that he could n't see that the old key would never stand up to the pressure he was putting on it . |
| 12 | He could n't say whether the person was male or female , because the curtain was drawn halfway across . |
| 13 | He could also understand that a Labour government led by Harold Wilson might be reluctant to arrest Jim Smyth or Harry Murray because of their support among the workers and their trade union links . |
| 14 | Mr David Whitaker , acting director of finance at North Tees health authority , said he could not comment until the details of the award were released . |
| 15 | Clegg also said he could not estimate whether the speed of the approaching stolen car was closer to 20 or 50mph . |
| 16 | Yet he could not believe that the KGB could have discovered his one small secret . |
| 17 | Sadat was shocked ; later he told his wife that he could not believe that the Shah would have allowed any foreign power such influence over his country 's affairs . |
| 18 | Just a fortnight ago , on 14 November , Councillor Mike Hastie , who is the Tory leader on Aberdeen district council , was reported as saying that he could not believe that the Government would now push through the measures . |
| 19 | He could not believe that the attitude expressed in para ( a ) was helpful , although he agreed that there was great concern about the reduction in eligibility for legal aid . |
| 20 | He added that he could not agree that the prizes were liberal . |
| 21 | She said something he could not hear and the music ceased . |
| 22 | He could not say that the garage was macho and Pricewell 's was naff , because she would tease him again . |
| 23 | Mr. Ratcliffe told me he could not say that an average person would not be woken by a heavy goods vehicle passing by his window and , to his credit , whilst making the very best of his brief he did not suggest that the present position is not disturbing . |
| 24 | Mr McNeil said , however , that given the CRE investigation he could not say if the education department had subsequently employed any bilingual educational psychologists or more interpreters . |
| 25 | Where she might be he could not imagine and the gap between them seemed perceptibly to widen as he sat waiting in his car for a doleful hour of encroaching twilight . |
| 26 | In an interview with the popular intellectual magazine Magill in June , Archbishop MacNamara found he could not accept that the state had the power to determine the meaning and nature of marriage and compared the effects of divorce to the recent Chernobyl nuclear disaster . |
| 27 | He could not accept that the goal or end of a process , the final cause , was the principal cause . |
| 28 | Engels ( 1874 ) , in an essay on authority directed against the anarchists , commented upon violent political revolutions that ‘ a revolution is certainly the most authoritarian thing there is ’ , but he did not go on to consider whether the authoritarianism of an armed revolutionary struggle might not subsequently become firmly entrenched in the practices of a post-revolutionary government ; and he could not foresee that the ‘ dictatorship of the proletariat ’ ( a phrase which he and Marx occasionally used in order to refer to the political dominance of the working class , conceived as the vast majority of the population , in the initial phase of socialist society ) would be transformed into a plain dictatorship and a reign of terror , turned against the people themselves . |
| 29 | He could never forget that the broken body on a mortuary slab was linked , somehow and somewhere , to living human beings — wives or husbands , parents , children , friends who might really care about the dead . |
| 30 | But in 1938 he could only suggest that the manyattas be brought as far as possible under administrative control and the moran ‘ encouraged in any activities to maintain their manliness such as sports , road work , or their lion-hunting with spears ’ . |