Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was glad to find the original material in what I took to be splendid condition , still clearly bearing the marks of the sculptor 's chisel . |
| 2 | I sat with a cup of coffee on my lap , still half-asphyxiated by what I took to be Neapolitan warmth . |
| 3 | I found what I took to be high water mark with my feet rather than my eyes . |
| 4 | Oh no I think I 'd want it to be comfortable , but I 'd also want it to look well what I considered to be nice . |
| 5 | As he walked away from the house , Mark had remembered that it was along this street , with its brightly — almost garishly — painted houses that Sophia had once seen a cluster of what she took to be exotic tropical fruits in one of the windows , only to realise that they were tomatoes put there to ripen . |
| 6 | She said it very mildly , without reproach or complaint , only uttering what she felt to be true . |
| 7 | The community planner was also aware that conflict probably did exist behind the prominence of what she perceived to be middle class agitation , but did not consider it part of her brief actively to encourage alliances that were not already formed . |
| 8 | What she died of was acute liver failure . ’ |
| 9 | To our philosophy teacher , Professor John Macmurray , I owed the perception that my chosen trade was a treacherous one if what you looked for was strict objectivity . |
| 10 | ‘ Is this also what you meant by being psychic ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ When we moved the telescope off the galaxy to what we expected to be blank sky , ’ Terzian explained , ‘ we got a signal instead . |
| 12 | The bombs from the mortar are now exploding in what we believed to be German positions in the wooded area to our front . |
| 13 | Not one that bleeding hearts would approve of , no doubt , but we , as the committee , were absolutely within our rights to sell off what we considered to be unnecessary stocks of wine in order to allocate the money to members ’ more urgent needs . ’ |
| 14 | The Conservative Government believed , however , that what they thought to be excessive subsidization would be stemmed and resources would be better employed . |
| 15 | Someone who 's had the courage who knowing that what they were saying was upsetting powerful people , still taking that risk and saying what they felt to be true and just ? |
| 16 | ‘ It is shocking that Unionists should attempt to use bullying tactics to instill fear into staff and stop them from voicing what they believed to be genuine concerns . ’ |
| 17 | I certainly both dreaded and disliked the prospect of the law and order debate , for the atmosphere was so strangely hostile and so different from that accorded to all one 's colleagues … pressure and even bullying by so-called ‘ hangers and floggers ’ served only to force Conservative MPs who were against hanging to stand up for what they believed to be right . |
| 18 | So powerful were the effects of this philosophy that to those who looked down from a higher level in society , the suffering became invisible ; or if not invisible , then transparent , and their view was not arrested by it but looked through it at what they took to be economic verities beyond . |
| 19 | Stuck in Dovercourt with little prospect of continuing their education or of fulfilling their parents ' ambitions , they did not see what they had to be grateful for . |
| 20 | The judge had told the jury of what they had to be satisfied before convicting any of the accused , but the case cried out for a direction which amounted to the reverse side of the coin , namely , that they should not convict any person who was in their charge simply because of his association with others . |
| 21 | The four Roman catholic archbishops replied on 28 April that they opposed divorce in general , and particularly the type of what they considered to be unrestricted divorce proposed in the constitutional amendment ( Irish Times , 28 Apr. 1986 ) . |
| 22 | Insofar as he separated science from religion , he — like Francis Bacon — was reacting against what he perceived to be excessive conflation in certain spiritualist philosophies . |
| 23 | Doublethink had entered so completely into Ceauşescu 's soul by the 1980s that he could genuinely bask in what he took to be sincere affection at the same time as he knew how stage-managed the whole event was . |
| 24 | McEwan Younger was a marvellous host , especially with business or political cronies , and had a leisurely , relaxed manner that could become passionate in discussion of what he thought to be mistaken policies or dubious personalities . |
| 25 | What he does is to appeal to what he believed to be certain facts of human nature . |
| 26 | He planned to engage what he believed to be weak Russian formations advancing from the east . |
| 27 | However , Vuk was too honest and too independent-minded to please Miloš , and when he again crossed over to Zemun in April 1832 he wrote a frank letter , telling Miloš what he believed to be wrong with his regime and advising him to introduce a constitution . |
| 28 | By contrast , Orwell sniffed out deterioration in numerous spheres of public life including what he understood to be new forms of crime , and altered responses to crime and violence . |
| 29 | Rounding against the people of the North of England , ‘ whose warped sporting instincts are so difficult to understand , even when they are quite familiar ’ , Ensor condemned the commercialisation of sport , the sensationalism of football journalism , and the adoption of what he understood to be French and American coaching tactics , as a wholesale corruption of sporting values . |
| 30 | 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 . |