Example sentences of "[pron] he regard as " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hill was eventually persuaded to drop this proposal to gain acceptance for what he regarded as the greater reform : that price should be independent of distance . |
| 32 | Hitler 's threats against the Jews , whose hand he of course saw behind the British and American ‘ war-mongerers ’ , were an attempt to retaliate at what he regarded as Jewish-provoked anti-German public opinion and , by depicting Jews in the position of hostages as the certain victims in any new war , to exert pressure on Britain and the USA to leave Germany a free hand in Europe . |
| 33 | Foster , a former coach at Leicester , originally stood down in protest at what he regarded as off-field interference . |
| 34 | He set great store by what he regarded as the dignity of the athlete , treating his players as human beings instead of mere paid servants , which was how most other players were regarded elsewhere . |
| 35 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 36 | The justification for wishing to unmask these hidden features of Marx 's work is obvious , since an awareness of the questions he failed to ask would enable us to understand more clearly what he was trying to do , and what he regarded as a satisfactory answer to his dilemmas . |
| 37 | In November 1340 Edward returned to England , furious at what he regarded as the mismanagement of government during his absence . |
| 38 | Reginald Bray , a friend of Masterman 's , would remark on the same development : As Bray organised the arguments of Iris powerful Christian treatise on The Town Child ( 1907 ) around deep shades of pastoral contrast between the serenity of natural phenomena and what he regarded as the unnatural and shallow inconsistency of the irreverent city , he thought that ‘ the most remarkable effect of an urban environment is to be sought in the disappearance of the habit of self-control ’ : The riotous jingo crowds which had accompanied the Ladysmith and Mafeking celebrations during the Boer War had indeed provided one of the most visible manifestations of these perceived alterations among the British people , and observing that ‘ to ‘ Maffick ’ ’ is not really congenial to the British character' The Times ( 30 October 1900 ) had mused upon whether ‘ our national character was changing for the worse ’ . |
| 39 | The mid-fourteenth-century English Dominican , John Bromyard , launched into what he regarded as the increasingly unChristian spirit of those , both knights and common soldiers , who went to war with the vilest of intentions and ‘ oaths and curses in their mouths ’ . |
| 40 | It aspired to the reconstitution of the socio-economic order on what he regarded as a moral basis : in short , as an industrial democracy . |
| 41 | Quick-tempered and at times reduced to mindless fury — for example by what he regarded as Becket 's betrayal of him — he could also be marvellously patient . |
| 42 | Émile was going to revenge himself on Jean-Claude for what he regarded as his arrogance . |
| 43 | There had been the row over Ray Honeyford 's diatribes against what he regarded as the nightmare of multiculturalism imposed on well-intentioned schools by a combination of the race relations industry and ‘ volatile ’ , ‘ half-educated ’ Asian and Afro-Caribbean parents ( Honey ford , 1983 , 1984 ) . |
| 44 | Being the son of an immigrant himself , he had no time for what he regarded as ethnic tourism . |
| 45 | When Dr A B Granville published his famous and best-selling guidebook , The Spas of England in 1841 , he made very clear in the opening chapters of his mammoth work his distaste for what he regarded as ‘ the lower orders of society ’ . |
| 46 | It had not been contended in the course of the case that there was not a sale , until during the debate in your Lordships ' House that suggestion was made , and I think that , beyond doubt , anyone , who in answer to the advertisement acquired a record , would say that he had bought it and would be surprised that any doubt should be cast upon what he regarded as an obvious fact . |
| 47 | Durkheim ( 1893 ) , in his discussion of the ‘ abnormal forms ’ of the division of labour , long ago drew attention to what he regarded as a condition of ‘ anomie ’ in the sphere of production , characterized by the absence of a body of rules governing the relations between different social functions — above all between labour and capital — and saw as both probable and desirable a growing normative regulation of industrial relations . |
| 48 | In identifying with what he regarded as his father , Wilson thought that he would er emerge from the war as a saviour to the world , so to speak . |
| 49 | Nicknamed the Dottore sottile ( " subtle doctor " ) , he had become reconciled in the 1980s with Craxi , whom he had previously criticized for what he regarded as his autocratic attitudes . |
| 50 | When he allowed his prime minister to make reassuring comments about France 's continuing role in Algeria or when he himself encouraged rumours that self-determination was just window-dressing for the UN , he was not merely deceiving people for the sake of his Algerian policy ; he was fulfilling what he regarded as one of the state 's sacred responsibilities : to keep the fabric of national unity intact . |
| 51 | Keynes 's struggle to break free from the classical economics with which he was so profoundly imbued , and his recurrent comparisons with what he regarded as the most powerful , though flawed , alternative approach to macroeconomic matters , were almost totally ignored . |
| 52 | The main thrust of Friedman 's paper was to displace what he regarded as an ill-informed and misguided optimism among post-war Keynesians concerning the ability of governments to intervene in the economy to achieve particular policy objectives . |