Example sentences of "which he [vb past] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The local authority had resolved that its director of housing be authorised to offer to them , in cases which he judged to be appropriate , accommodation in hostels or hotels by way of permanent accommodation . |
| 2 | Last October his political career seemed over when , at its Harrogate conference , the party adopted a proabortion stance , which he believed to be repugnant . |
| 3 | That this was an ill-advised step is very clear to us , but Eadmer was only pressing a claim which he believed to be inherent in the original jurisdiction of Canterbury . |
| 4 | Charles took one look at the proffered platitudes , which he knew to be absurd , and set about writing an alternative . |
| 5 | Laing decided to write it all down , from start to finish , to include copies of his printouts , which he knew to be genuine , and to send a copy to every member of the bank 's Board in New York . |
| 6 | For Gladstone it was entirely consistent with his ambition to abolish income tax , which he declared to be immoral , that Consumers ' Co-operation should be endorsed as an instrument to encourage the working classes to frugality . |
| 7 | No one could go into his yard without a cane — which he appeared to be terrified of — and the viciousness he displayed when anyone was near his food was so extreme that the only way he could be fed was to throw his food over the fence ! |
| 8 | The exhilaration soon faded upon checking his fuel state , which he found to be low . |
| 9 | Originally a three-year trained teacher , by 1976 he had successfully completed a part time B.Phil degree and subsequently had tried , unsuccessfully , to obtain the pastoral experience which he considered to be necessary in order to move up the comprehensive school hierarchy . |
| 10 | President Fernando Collor de Mello had demanded the replacement of Beza 's predecessor , the Argentinian economist José Fajgembaum , for making comments which he considered to be blatant interference in Brazilian national affairs . |
| 11 | President Göncz , himself imprisoned under Communist rule , asked the Constitutional Court for a ruling on the new law , which he considered to be ill-defined . |
| 12 | In Amoco Lord Cross said the fact that a covenantor had obtained and would continue to enjoy benefits under the agreement which he claimed to be unenforceable was pro tanto a reason for holding that the covenant was not in unreasonable restraint of trade . |
| 13 | The most versatile stone in his long catalogue was sapphire , which he held to be good for protecting the limbs from injury and the wearer from fraud , as well as for overcoming envy , averting terror , liberating from imprisonment , purifying the eyes , cooling the body and not least for the convenient property of making the wearer beloved of god as well as of men . |
| 14 | Here too they follow Richards , who used the same term to characterize the ‘ bringing in of the opposite , the complementary impulse ’ ( Richards 1967 : 197 ) , which he held to be characteristic of all great poetry . |