Example sentences of "[be] [adj] [conj] he [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 2 | Unless the circumstances are such that he fears that violence is likely , no offence is committed . |
| 3 | The hon. Gentleman knows that that allegation is untrue , but I am glad that he accepts that the quality of service has improved and that there have been improvements in the pricing of a number of British Telecom services . |
| 4 | But Althusser imposes one stringent limitation on the types that are admissible when he asserts that Marxist history is ‘ a process without a subject ’ . |
| 5 | I am sure that he agrees that we should not dock the benefit of deserving mums . |
| 6 | Franklin even added point ( excuse me ) to the argument about whether pointed or knobbed lightning rods may be preferable when he showed that blunted ones acted at a greater distance . |
| 7 | My right hon. Friend must be wrong when he says that we are spending 4.3 per cent . |
| 8 | According to the late Dr. K. R. Gilbert of the Science Museum the slubbing Billy could be unique and he believed that there were only five other Jennys left , all in museums . |
| 9 | A purchaser of land might well be uneasy if he knew that , even if he had no notice of a trust , the land could be recovered from him by a trustee . |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm sure Kinsella 's boss , being a member of the legal profession , will be shocked when he learns that an employee of his was once convicted for embezzlement . ’ |
| 11 | He is not always reliable , but he may well be correct when he mentions that there were other candidates , including John of Salerno , cardinal priest of St Stefano in Celiomonte ( who he says withdrew from the second ballot ) , and possibly Jordan of Fossanova , former abbot of Ceccano , cardinal priest of St Pudenziana , and Gratian , cardinal deacon of SS . |
| 12 | When Spurgeon opened Pastor 's College in 1856 some of the first pupils were illiterate but he insisted that his aim was to equip ‘ a class of ministers who will not aim at lofty scholarship , but at the winning of souls — men of the people ’ . |
| 13 | But to deny being nervous when he knew that she was would be both pointless and stupid . |
| 14 | The latter 's delight and enthusiasm were such that he insisted that Nicholas should be sent to study at Oxford University and maintained there at the royal charge ; but a month later the youth died , on his twentieth birthday . |
| 15 | ‘ And was n't he being romantic when he suggested that we consider you for this job ? |
| 16 | As he was a brilliant classical scholar , it is possible that he realized that what he had discovered was in line with one of Hippocrates ' systems , formulated so many centuries before . |
| 17 | If the president of one of our major trades unions is right when he asserts that no company now pays mainstream corporation tax ( that it only pays tax on the dividends paid to its shareholders ) , it would cost the nation nothing to do away with mainstream corporation tax , but think what a boon that could be . |
| 18 | He is right when he says that that should be stopped . |
| 19 | I think your doctor is right when he says that you need time to get over the loss of your dad and your friend , and it is only right and natural that you should think of them a lot , but if you try to turn your thoughts to good and happy memories of them that will be the best way of honouring them , and will help you , too . |
| 20 | Furthermore , it is interesting that he held that they owed this ‘ to an antecedent utility as objects of beauty ’ . |
| 21 | The APA also questions the current rule that the state must prove that a defendant is sane if he claims that he is insane . |
| 22 | It is astonishing that he believes that the exclusion of London Scottish and London Irish from League One will raise English rugby standards . |
| 23 | But Keegan is undeterred and he stressed that the selling days are over at St James ' Park . |
| 24 | But if one troubles to read what Chomsky actually says here , it is apparent that he recognizes that linguistics and psychology are associated with ways of approaching ‘ the problems of language teaching from a principled point of view ’ . |
| 25 | Mr Glancey is inaccurate when he says that the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham rejected an ‘ inspired scheme ’ by Terry Farrell for the reconstruction of Hammersmith Broadway . |
| 26 | Margaret 's oldest son is nine and he knows that Richard is in prison , but that he 's there for a crime he did n't commit . |
| 27 | Professor Simmonds is correct when he says that it is very hard to isolate the part played by railways in the growth of towns and the development of the countryside from all the other economic and social factors of the nineteenth century . |
| 28 | It is true that he says that he has checked " difficult readings " against the Oxford text ( p. 9 ) . |
| 29 | The prophet was right when he said that without a vision the people perish . |
| 30 | I do not want to rely on quotations from Nye Bevan , but he was right when he said that we were a country built on coal . |