Example sentences of "[that] he [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I shall argue that he overstates the significance that can be attributed to literacy in itself : that he lends authority to a language for describing literacy practices that often contradicts even his own stated disclaimers of the ‘ strong ’ case ; that he understates the qualities of oral communication ; that he sets up unhelpful and often untestable polarities between , for instance , the ‘ potentialities ’ of literacy and ‘ restricted literacy ’ ; and that he polarises the differences between oral and literate modes of communication in a way that gives insufficient credit to the reality of ‘ mixed ’ and interacting modes . |
| 2 | On the other hand , there may obviously be cases where the plaintiff establishes a prima facie case by proving that he suffered damage from acts done in combination by the defendants the natural and probable outcome of which was damage to him . |
| 3 | Walesa , addressing his former workmates at the Gdansk shipyard on June 3 , stated that he advocated rule by decree during a transitional period but that parliament opposed this . |
| 4 | She put aside the guilty thought that he made love as if he had studied it as he had told her he once studied keyboard fingering and Bach 's Innovations . |
| 5 | The College 's first Principal ( or Professor , as he and his more immediate successors were called ) published his first proposals for a veterinary school in England in 1788 , but it was not until two years later that he made contact with the Odiham Agricultural Society . |
| 6 | OCT 3 : Allegations that he made V-sign to Chelsea fans at Highbury after scoring Arsenal 's late winner — again not proven . |
| 7 | He was an ecologist of international significance , widely acknowledged — indeed revered — as the pre-eminent British field botanist of his time , and his prowess was the more remarkable given that he was born , blind in one eye , into a poor Welsh family , that he left school at 14 , and that he spent the first 33 years of his working life as a North Wales quarryman . |
| 8 | To her he confessed that he hoped residence at Lincoln would banish his ‘ moods ’ and in the same letter he reflected on his own mother 's ‘ love and uncertainty , in her melancholy unconfident way ’ . |
| 9 | He concluded that he shared responsibility for hiring Sutton . |
| 10 | My Lords erm I was deeply appreciative of er the my Noble Friend , Lord Boyd-Carpenter insofar as he said that he felt sympathy for me . |
| 11 | It was n't that he felt pity for them ; far from it — their passivity revolted him . |
| 12 | A charter of Hlothhere , however , refers to 1 April 675 as ‘ in the first year of our reign ’ ( CS 36 : S 7 ) , which means that he became king in 674 at the earliest and 17 September in his seventh year can have fallen no earlier than 680 . |
| 13 | Having given a sketchy account of his early career , he notes that he became kazasker in 863/1458–9 and was then removed from that post in 871/1466–7 . |
| 14 | He was a happy and contented member of a new kind of club , and since the last thing Ken wanted to do was join a club , it was a measure of his new triumph that he became part of this one . |
| 15 | If one accepts the statement that Hizir Bey was mufti in Istanbul , then it is natural to suppose that Molla Husrev succeeded him ; but as with Hizir Bey , so with Molla Husrev , there is no positive evidence , nor even any suggestive indication , that Molla Husrev was in any sense Mufti before his return from Bursa : there is nothing , in short , to suggest that he became Mufti in any way other than that reported by the . |
| 16 | Malcolm 's lasting interest in the Orient was illustrated by the fact that he became president of the China Society and helped to found the Oriental Ceramic Society . |
| 17 | That his resignation and pilgrimage can not have occurred much later than 844 is indicated by information given by Taskopruzade concerning Molla Fenari 's son , Yusuf Bali , namely that he became kadi of Bursa — no date is given for his appointment — and died as kadi in 846/1442–3 . |
| 18 | Taking the question of the origins of the office first , one may adduce one important piece of negative evidence against the claim that Hizir Bey became Mufti of Istanbul , namely the fact that , with one possible exception , none of the important Turkish sources relative to the ulema in general-including Katib Celebi himself , in his — or to the Muftilik in particular mentions that Hizir Bey became Mufti of Istanbul , although such as deal with his career are agreed that he became kadi of Istanbul at the conquest . |
| 19 | Theo insisted that he should concentrate on improving his life — whatever that meant — and that he seemed intent on doing the opposite . |
| 20 | In Bavaria during the 830s , Louis had established a firm power-base for an enlarged kingdom , and his epithet " the German " , though meant by contemporaries to convey simply that he ruled east of the Rhine , would turn out curiously apt in terms of modern state-geography . |
| 21 | He has dismissed as ‘ dirtying , disgusting and unfair ’ charges in Time and the Washington Post that he took part in a gang rape at the age of nine . |
| 22 | Mr Friel had become so frightened that he took refuge in a friend 's house nearby until he thought the coast was clear at midnight . |
| 23 | Franklin Roosevelt could be said to fall into the former category , but it should not be forgotten that he took office at a moment of great crisis in American history and was aided by unusually large majorities in both houses of the legislature . |
| 24 | Big John McCormick had had a distinguished career in Scotland , where he had been on the verge of international honours while playing with now defunct Third Lanark and at Aberdeen , but it was , amazingly , as a makeweight that he came south to Crystal Palace . |
| 25 | His defects were that he lacked subtlety , was vehemently anti-communist to the point where any unrest or dissent might be regarded as a sign of communist activity , and that he lacked preparation for the tasks he faced . |
| 26 | MEL MACHIN , sacked as Manchester City manager five weeks ago amid accusations that he lacked rapport with the fans , chose his appointment at Barnsley yesterday to parade a new upbeat persona . |
| 27 | Certainly II Cnut 54.1 , which forbids the keeping of a woman in addition to a wife , sits ill with the king 's own relationship with Ælfgifu of Northampton , and suggests that he occasionally turned a deaf ear to Wulfstan 's entreaties ; but this does not necessarily mean that he lacked interest in the archbishop 's work . |
| 28 | It is significant that he studied Italian at Cambridge under Agostino Isola . |
| 29 | Buckland admits that he feels sympathy for users caught in the cross fire but says ‘ in defence of IBM , it was not us who diverged from the strategy that was laid down ’ and that those who stick with LAN Server will have a guaranteed migration path towards a DCE/DME-based system . |
| 30 | That he feels kind of disappointed and upset by what he sees happening in science around him . |