Example sentences of "which he [verb] to be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage it would seem that the copyist was perplexed by the floating " 30 " Ip " , which he took to be 30,000 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This was the approach adopted by the Divisional Court in Reg. v. Governor of Pentonville Prison , Ex parte Osman [ 1990 ] 1 W.L.R. 277 , 299–300 , where it was stated that the magistrate should reject any evidence which he considers to be worthless . |
| 4 | He characterises the mining bourgeoisie in Peru as a corporate national bourgeoisie , which he considers to be progressive as it is nationalist and developmentalist . |
| 5 | Last October his political career seemed over when , at its Harrogate conference , the party adopted a proabortion stance , which he believed to be repugnant . |
| 6 | He had ascertained during daylight that the lavatory was diagonally across the passage from his room door , and , as the passage was now unlit and he was unable to find the light switch , he crossed the passage in the dark and , by feeling his way , came to a door which he believed to be that of the lavatory , but which was in fact a door leading to the basement . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Charles took one look at the proffered platitudes , which he knew to be absurd , and set about writing an alternative . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | The exhilaration soon faded upon checking his fuel state , which he found to be low . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 20 | For example , the chief executive or clerk would be at fault in allowing a committee to do something which is not authorised by law or which he knows to be illegal . |
| 21 | The right hon. Gentleman is as wrong about that as he was in his assertion during the recent debate that I had refused to meet the regional Sports Council chairmen , which he knows to be untrue . |
| 22 | makes a statement , promise or forecast which he knows to be misleading , false or deceptive or dishonestly conceals any material facts ; or |
| 23 | In other words the tippee must , first , obtain from an individual , information which he knows to be unpublished price sensitive information ; secondly , he must know that the individual is a ‘ connected individual ’ within the meaning of the legislation ; thirdly , he must know or have reasonable cause to believe that that individual holds the information by virtue of being so connected ; and finally , he must know or have reasonable cause to expect that that individual should not have disclosed the information save for the proper performance of that individual 's duties . |
| 24 | ‘ For any person in the course of any trade or business , ( a ) to make a statement which he knows to be false ; or ( b ) recklessly to make a statement which is false ; as to any of the following matters … . ’ |
| 25 | Until now the Magistrate had been in the position of a scientist who has made a discovery which he knows to be true but is unable to prove . |
| 26 | I also want to establish the degree to which he wants to be true to the facts , such as they are . |