Example sentences of "[adj] [that] he [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In other situations , however , PH 's pattern of responding makes it clear that he is recognizing familiar faces at an unconscious level . |
| 2 | From the outset , Cohn makes it very clear that he is bent on taking a walk on the wild side , to chronicle the lives of the losers he meets along this small strip of the Great American Nowhere . |
| 3 | Some will think him a spiritual butterfly , some an intellectual too ready to be hoodwinked ; but his searching has a definite progress to it , and the heights and depths encountered in this book make it clear that he is getting somewhere , often against his own will and inclination . |
| 4 | In the British case ( and Saunders makes it clear that he is generalising about the home in British society ) the best way in which the occupant of a house can acquire ontological security is through being its owner . |
| 5 | Mark 's promise that the Holy Spirit will look after their words when arraigned before councils for the sake of the gospel is brought into the Mission Charge by Matthew : it seems clear that he is looking forward from an isolated incident in the ministry of Jesus to the continuing mission of the post-resurrection church of which he was a member . |
| 6 | It makes it a criminal offence for the advertiser to fail to make it clear that he is selling in the course of a business . |
| 7 | Medicine Mr Portillo has made clear that he is examining every possible area of Government spending in the task of cutting the bill before the Chancellor 's next budget in November . |
| 8 | Although it is clear that he is committed to making changes , he has taken up fluent corporation-speak surprisingly quickly . |
| 9 | From the way his instructions became more explicit , it is clear that he was teaching himself stagecraft as he went along , and learning fast . |
| 10 | It is clear that he was considering that that extension would add two further bedrooms . |
| 11 | By that it was clear that he was referring to some sort of spiritual renaissance , and he succeeded , as so often , in implicitly prophesying the emergence of men like Solzhenitsyn . |
| 12 | It was clear that he was dismissing the subject . |
| 13 | I felt Niki was trying to be as much an elder statesman as a driver and though to say he was perfunctory in his driving would be an exaggeration , it was clear that he was looking to the future , and the development of the new engine , rather than to the present . |
| 14 | It was clear that he was attracted to her . |
| 15 | ‘ I think from then on it was fairly clear that he was going to make it to the very top , ’ one retired civil servant recalled . |
| 16 | It became clear that he was heading east towards Zamora in the opposite direction to us at the same level after takeoff from Porto , and fully occupied flying his aeroplane — he did not respond to the controller 's requests for position reports or estimates . |
| 17 | However , it became clear that he was dying . |
| 18 | By the time they reached the coffee stage it had become clear that he was doing his best to pump her , though she hoped he had not yet realised how little result he was getting , or how assiduously she was trying , in her turn , to find out more about him . |
| 19 | Arghatun was speaking again , and he gestured once or twice in the direction of Rostov and the others so that it was clear that he was making a report . |
| 20 | However , I thought that it was wrong , very , very wrong that he was picked for Stuttgart on the strength of those two races . |
| 21 | I am afraid that he is getting very near to the Nuremburg defence of saying that he was only obeying orders . |
| 22 | Afraid that he was going to hit her , Owen intervened . |
| 23 | Mme Guérigny , whilst relying on her son , still found it distasteful that he was managing to survive in the face of the family tragedy . |
| 24 | It 's possible that he 's trying to test your love for him . |
| 25 | Was it possible that he was connected with ‘ my lord — Mr Smith ’ , who had seemed so anxious to get rid of them ? |
| 26 | It may be that Aethelwald 's genealogy does not survive because his family did not claim descent from Ida and it is possible that he was descended from Oswine of Deira . |
| 27 | But when I bent down on some pretext and could see into his face it seemed possible that he was laughing at himself as well as flustered . |
| 28 | ‘ So it 's possible that he was murdered ? ’ |
| 29 | She should be grateful that he was making things easier than they might otherwise have been . |
| 30 | Writing when he did , and as he did , to justify an actual rebellion , it is perhaps not strange that he was thinking primarily of politics rather than of law , that the ‘ rights ’ he had in mind were the rights of man rather than the rights of the citizen , or that the sanction for these rights should be extralegal action rather than any constitutional check . |