Example sentences of "he considered [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He specialised in collecting the work of four artists he considered to be the true Cubists , Picasso , Braque , Leger and Gris . |
| 2 | DAVID FEHERTY played what he considered to be the best golf of his life in the BMW tournament in Munich yesterday , thanks largely to a tip from a friend . |
| 3 | That the King was an industrious sovereign was never disputed , but his efforts were confined to what he considered to be ‘ royal business ’ — and this did not embrace an interest in the lives and welfare of his people at large . |
| 4 | The Emperor , however , had not sought power simply in order to dazzle contemporaries with spectacle , but rather with the aim of putting France in the forefront of general progress and restoring her to what he considered to be her rightful place in Europe . |
| 5 | His hatred of the Empress , whom he never forgave for producing a male heir and thus depriving him of the succession to the throne , together with his inveterate hostility to what he considered to be the ‘ reactionary powers ’ , led him at times into very deep waters indeed . |
| 6 | Burn said that immediately after the assessors were appointed he proposed that each judge should examine the schemes separately and indicate on them which he considered to be the best . |
| 7 | This was to be his most important contribution towards the new Foreign Office , but throughout the whole campaign , he unswervingly pursued what he considered to be the ideal solution to the problem . |
| 8 | He was asked by a pressman one day which position he considered to be Billy Turner 's best . |
| 9 | Once more Bukharin dwelt upon what he considered to be the unique character of the Russian revolution : that it was a combination of workers revolution and peasant war , which implied the need for a long-term alliance between the two classes . |
| 10 | During the course of his argument Bukharin sketched out what he considered to be the three variants of the development of agriculture under capitalism , these were : |
| 11 | The cloud base reduced further , and he decided to climb to safety altitude , along what he considered to be a safe track . |
| 12 | The second was the commonly used treatment by opposites — in other words , palliative treatment such as laxatives for constipation , which he considered to be a false path . |
| 13 | He distrusted mysticism and wrote against the Quakers , whose reliance on an ‘ Inner Light ’ he considered to be a blasphemous neglect of the Scriptures . |
| 14 | He used an external filter which he considered to be the best option , as it would be quiet , easy to maintain and would keep the water cleaner . |
| 15 | Bates entered his third final in an uneasy mood , stating his opinions about a fine which he considered to be too high for a verbal abuse offence — this did affect his performance . |
| 16 | Following the organic method Spengler delineated what he considered to be the significant ideas and symbols of the spring , summer , autumn and winter phases of each culture . |
| 17 | It had always distressed him that the West and the Eastern bloc could both budget so generously for what he considered to be the evils of the nuclear industry while millions in the Third World were left wanting for food . |
| 18 | On one occasion , as the wedding day drew near , Charles put his arm around her waist and commented on what he considered to be her chubby figure . |
| 19 | Jiminez de Arechaga , a member of the International Law Commission , identified what he considered to be the three crucial questions . |
| 20 | His depression had been caused at first by what he considered to be the disturbing condition of the victors after the war : he was uneasy about the foreign policy of both England and the United States , as well as about the intentions of Russia . |
| 21 | The problem was that engagements like that at Pusey House were a distraction from what he considered to be his main business — that of finishing The Cocktail Party . |
| 22 | We know , for instance , that the deputy head continued to employ " normative-re-educative " strategies ( Lawrence and Lorsch , 1969 ) as well as more pragmatic means of pecking away at what he considered to be reactionary views amongst some staff . |
| 23 | When John Lehmann grew impatient with what he considered to be too cautious a policy at the Hogarth Press , he set up his own publishing house with modest financial backing from family and friends . |
| 24 | Despite Wilson 's inclination to adopt what he considered to be a conciliatory approach to the shipowners he found himself , whether pioneering new branches or giving support to the work of the union 's organizing delegates , in the role of agitator . |
| 25 | Mr Finlay 's main concern about bookshop events was what he considered to be the unequal sharing of costs . |
| 26 | His actions and ideas were those of a young man with a clear perception of what he considered to be right and wrong , and a clear understanding of what he judged to be the sources of oppression in the world . |
| 27 | Having turned his back on what he considered to be the sophistry , deception and compromise of bourgeois culture and bourgeois politics , in favour of the clarity and ideological certainty of what proved to be an unrealistic sectarian politics , force of circumstances compelled him after 1934 to engage in the compromising task of cooperative politics . |
| 28 | Although this was an extremely delicate operation for Nizan to perform , given that in 1934 he had carried out the rather complex act of ideological rehabilitation designed to demonstrate that Gide 's intellectual itinerary was such as to lead him inevitably to a commitment to communism , he none the less succeeded in combining professional respect for Gide 's qualities as a writer with penetrating criticism of what he considered to be Gide 's superficial analysis and hasty dismissal of the Soviet state . |
| 29 | Aragon , the perennial survivor , was prompt to defend the actions of the Soviet Union from what he considered to be a snivelling chorus of criticism emanating from the partisans of Munich . |
| 30 | Professor Kellert used the results of his survey to identify what he considered to be the main animal characteristics that guided North American preferences . |