Example sentences of "have [verb] [pn reflx] that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is surprising that New Scientist should have convinced itself that the nuclear weapons policy of the SDP is ‘ indistinguishable ’ from that of the government . |
| 2 | If the taste or effect of taking tansy proved too daunting a thought , perhaps the patient might have consoled himself that the suspension of aquavitae could have aided the effects of the medicine if not improved the taste . |
| 3 | On reflection , I was ashamed to have to remind myself that the age of the donor is an irrelevance ; it is the quality of the blood that counts . |
| 4 | And once they had deluded themselves that the blacks were content , the whites were quite unable to recognise , let alone tackle , the real grievances that caused so many peasant farmers to side with the ‘ boys in the bush ’ . |
| 5 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 6 | I had convinced myself that the massage had been no more than superficial . |
| 7 | Stalin had been hoping that British and American forces would be used to create a ‘ second front ’ on the main continent of Europe and by now he had convinced himself that the United States and Britain were deliberately delaying the creation of the ‘ second front ’ so that the Russian forces would be weakened by allowing the major part of the German forces to continue to oppose them on the eastern front . |
| 8 | She had convinced herself that the intense impact which Vitor d'Arcos had once had on her had been a much exaggerated memory , the figment of an overheated imagination . |
| 9 | McLeish had to remind himself that the dead girl behind them would have felt none of this dank chill . |
| 10 | The parties must also state that they have satisfied themselves that the value of the asset at the date of transfer was in excess of allowable expenditure plus indexation to date . |
| 11 | The Directors have satisfied themselves that the Group has an effective system of internal control which includes a clearly documented and understood delegation of authority from the Board to the Executive Committee , and in turn to the operating companies . |
| 12 | The Directors have satisfied themselves that the Group is in a sound financial position and that sufficient borrowing facilities will be available to meet the Group 's foreseeable cash requirements . |