Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] that he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was n't there trying to tell him that he was doing something wrong or that he should n't be doing it . |
| 2 | I 'm not saying that he will get it wrong or that he 'll lose you the money , but that 's the responsibility of . |
| 3 | In support of one of these views , James Michie ( 1964 : 9 ) writes in his translator 's preface " It is better that Horace should be " done down " into English than that he should be undone by the gradual disappearance of Latin from our culture " . |
| 4 | He looked like a buccaneer of old except that he wore not the wide-sleeved shirts and breeches of the past but the rough working clothes that had been her father 's . |
| 5 | His most recent biographer has observed that ‘ because Aymer de Valence held the English earldom of Pembroke and spent his entire career in English service it is easy to forget that in origin he was almost entirely French and that he retained very close links with France throughout his life ’ . |
| 6 | Maurice , an amiable young man , had realised as soon as he came to the Reach that Richard was always going to do this and that he himself would accordingly be known as Dondeschiepolschuygen IV which was inscribed in gilt lettering on his bows . |
| 7 | He turned down a job in a famous public school and wrote to Aunt Lilian , a long , very high-flown letter , saying that he believed social segregation in education to be totally wrong and that he could have no part in perpetuating it . |
| 8 | On September 9 , 1969 , by which time Clinton knew his draft number was high and that he was therefore unlikely to be called up , he wrote to his friend Richard Stearns : ‘ Nothing could be more destructive of whatever fibre I have left than this mental torment . |
| 9 | I knew that there was a problem and made a note of it erm that it was hereditary and that he was seeing a consultant , but there 's other parts of the C C Q that would actually relate to that and go into it in a lot more detail |
| 10 | All that may be stated with any certainty is that his knowledge of the craft must have been more than merely adequate and that he was a good businessman . |
| 11 | The Slovak parliament 's defence and security committee alleged that Meciar was registered with the security police or StB from 1985 and that he had removed incriminating evidence and promoted loyal former agents in the Slovak Interior Ministry after November 1989 . |
| 12 | What the diffident schoolboy has lost is the confidence that his beliefs are tracking the truth ; he takes it that , although he does believe that p , it is at least as probable that he is wrong as that he is right . |
| 13 | Indemnity insurance At the same time as applying for replacement of his practising certificate a solicitor must satisfy the Law Society ( by attaching to his application a copy of the form of evidence issued and stamped by London Insurance Brokers Ltd ) that he has complied with the provisions of the Solicitors ' Indemnity Rules 1991 or that he is exempt from so doing . |
| 14 | Frankish annals record that Eardwulf visited Charlemagne and Pope Leo III and that he was escorted back by imperial and papal envoys and re-established in his kingdom in 808 . |
| 15 | This leaves the manufacturer with the problem of proving that his employees were not negligent and that he was using a safe system . |
| 16 | The charge which the historian must bring against him is not that he was vicious but that he was timid , selfish and worst of all lazy . |
| 17 | He was sure that the bishop was right and that he was hard to follow . |
| 18 | Within a few years that same young man had determined that things could be put right and that he was the man to do it . |
| 19 | He turned his head away , and as the light caught his face at a certain angle Nenna realised in terror that he was right and that he would never get anywhere . |
| 20 | NO SNOW fell during the night and at 10.00 , after Erika had run her five kilometres under a dazzling blue sky , Karl ran and said that he thought he rather did that a brief tour of Berlin would be possible and that he would be waiting in the lounge of the Palast at 11.00 ; adding that Paul should meet them at the television Tower at 1.00 |
| 21 | The Manchester Guardian critic noticed that Minton 's figures were becoming less formalised and that he had ‘ fastened on the banana tree almost as tightly as Sutherland had clasped the more uncomfortable thorn-tree to his bosom ’ . |
| 22 | The minimum this required was that Galileo should be warned that a heliostatic universe had been found formally heretical and that he must no longer hold or defend it . |
| 23 | He has said the change in diet and water would be calamitous and that he ought to rest where all is familiar for six months or more . |
| 24 | As Pip has realised that Magwitch is Estella 's father and he comforts him by telling him that his daughter is still alive and that he is in love with her . |
| 25 | What more natural than that he should gravitate towards the Communist Party ? |
| 26 | What was more natural than that he should come to see his cousin at his place of work ? |
| 27 | And there was nothing surer than that he was going to need her when Guido finally caught up with him ! |
| 28 | ‘ He said that his heart was dicky and that he would n't last much longer . |
| 29 | Will my right hon. Friend tell me how best to reply to a constituent of mine who has recently completed a course of treatment at Broomfield hospital in Chelmsford and who tells me that the nurses and doctors were fantastic , that the treatment was magnificent and that he is fed up to the back teeth with the constant efforts of the Labour party to undermine and talk down the achievements of the health service ? |
| 30 | But that was not all : Mr Browning said Mr Landor 's rooms were all to be painted , carpeted and furnished and that he thought her own quarters might at least be painted if she contributed only a little to the cost . |