Example sentences of "he [verb] that it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A st'lyan ate up the ground like no horse he had ever encountered , and although at first he had estimated that a verst , the basic unit of Tarvarian distance , was equivalent to about a kilometre , now he realised that it was probably more than twice that . |
| 2 | But the stabbing pain in his eardrums was almost welcome , as the roaring subsided to a grumbling , faraway avalanche and he realised that it was only the sound of the storm . |
| 3 | In Claude Berri 's latest film , ‘ Uranus ’ , he knocks back a whole bottle of wine without pausing for breath ; although he insists that it was merely coloured water , his fans believe otherwise . |
| 4 | First , he argued that it is highly artificial to construe all consumption as a response to needs ; while this approach may seem illuminating when it is applied to the consumption of individuals , it can not plausibly be extended to productive consumption , which has to be treated as ‘ the consumption which satisfies the needs of production ’ , if the theory is to be sustained . |
| 5 | He argued that it is too simplistic , and indeed ethnocentric , to dismiss such peoples as irrational and unscientific . |
| 6 | When Secretary of State Marshall was cabling the Embassy in Paris that Ho Chi Minh had direct Communist connections — whether or not this was a fact depends upon what one means by ‘ connection ’ — he argued that it was also a fact that colonial empires , in the l9th-century sense , were rapidly becoming a thing of the past . |
| 7 | Far from arguing that the Bill did nothing , he argued that it was too draconian . |
| 8 | While he strongly believes that violence produces results ( presumably by dramatising the point in question ) he agrees that it is morally wrong . |
| 9 | Soon , however , he realized that it was neither of these . |
| 10 | But now that Lorenzini had mentioned him he realized that it was n't . |
| 11 | He admitted that it was not easy , and said that , in effect , what one did was to get them to read the first chapter of any book by Derrida . |
| 12 | He thinks that it is more important to convince doctors that ‘ teaching ’ is a broad term and covers much of what they do every day and to ensure that they receive adequate training and support to carry it out well . |
| 13 | Little did he know that it was n't a smile , but a grimace of pain . |
| 14 | He found that it is not unusual in some industries for prices to individual buyers to remain unchanged for several years . |
| 15 | He adds that it is not in the traders ' interests for the elephants to die out . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He says that it 's not worth staying on if the place is going to be wrecked . |
| 18 | He says that it 's very spectacular . |
| 19 | He says that it was half it 's normal weight . |
| 20 | He says that it was very difficult to get some of the cows out , because they were so frightened of the flames . |
| 21 | Will he ensure that it is not unfairly excluded as a result of the foreign dumping of inferior chain ? |
| 22 | This drew Boulton 's attention to it and he noticed that it was rather unusual . |
| 23 | But he added that it was not normal to find such evidence . |
| 24 | But he added that it was too early to try to determine ‘ the exact nature of the wiretaps and the identity of those responsible . ’ |
| 25 | He added that it was entirely up to her whether she chose to assist . |
| 26 | First , he assumes that it is not correlated with permanent consumption . |
| 27 | He repeated this over and over , as if he believed that it is only " they " whoever they were , told him how to act , then everything would be all right . |
| 28 | He insisted that no decisions about future spending had been taken , but he believed that it was right ‘ that there should be a widespread review and it is right that there should be a big debate . ’ |
| 29 | He claimed that it was more accurate than any that had been made before , and there is a strong possibility that it is to be identified with the map which appears in the 1535 English Bible of Miles Coverdale [ q.v . ] . |
| 30 | He himself admits that both the continental staff and the locally recruited waitresses are skilful , but privately he regrets that it is no longer possible to find enough male British waiters , as he feels this would ‘ look better ’ . |