Example sentences of "which he [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rather than giving the same recognition to differences among literacies which he proposes to be differences among languages , he uses what is in fact the ‘ autonomous ’ model of literacy as the basis for arguments about the specific nature of the English language . |
| 2 | Ho , as well as Bao Dai , was to be consulted and it would be put to him that if he was the real nationalist which he professed to be he would ‘ accept loyally the decisions and mandates of the government and the subsequent constituent assembly , etc. and bind himself unequivocally not to … subvert the true nationalism of his people or a government that might emerge from the multilateral effort ’ . |
| 3 | ( The social investigator Henry Mayhew came across bundling practices while touring Germany in the 1860s , which he took to be ‘ licentious ’ . ) |
| 4 | At this stage it would seem that the copyist was perplexed by the floating " 30 " Ip " , which he took to be 30,000 . |
| 5 | He identified his electricity bill and the telephone bill ( he hoped his colleagues had not been using his phone too much ) and a typewritten envelope which he took to be an advertisement . |
| 6 | At a party given by John Harvard for the Herbert Reads in June , he came with fireworks and some items bought at the joke shop opposite the British Museum : sugar which when immersed let out little fish , and chocolates which he thought to be filled with sawdust but were in fact made of soap ; the guests , he said , " set on me " . |
| 7 | A better memorial to him is the statue of Cardinal Wolsey over the gate to Christ Church College , Oxford , which he caused to be erected and underneath which he is named in a Latin inscription . |
| 8 | It could be said the key to his personality and the contribution which he has made to the diocese of Middlesbrough as Bishop is unfolded in an eloquent way by the new Cathedral which he caused to be built . |
| 9 | The sword was evidently the token of gift in a ceremony perhaps similar to that in which King Edgar granted privileges to Glastonbury by placing on the altar an ivory horn , which he ordered to be cut in half and preserved so that it could be offered as testimony in future . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ON TRACK PAUL Merson models the new Umbro England tracksuit — which he hopes to be wearing in Spain next month . |
| 12 | He characterises the mining bourgeoisie in Peru as a corporate national bourgeoisie , which he considers to be progressive as it is nationalist and developmentalist . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ The judge may read in words which he considers to be necessarily implied by words which are already in the statute , and he has a limited power to add to , alter or ignore statutory words in order to prevent a provision from being unintelligible or absurd or totally unreasonable , unworkable or totally irreconcilable with the rest of the statute . ’ |
| 15 | Already , said station manager John Moares , 130 people had applied for early retirement in recent weeks a situation which he considers to be partly connected with the station 's uncertain future . |
| 16 | In seeking to grasp this dynamic , and portray it , he had become enthused with the duende , the spirit unleashed by the flamenco — music and dance — which he believed to be the dynamic of true art and artistic expression : ‘ Repel the angel , kick out the muse , ’ , he was wont to exclaim ; arguing that artists must work ‘ from the gut , ’ with the conviction and intensity that the expression exudes ; allowing the life-force it releases to flow — torrentially , vividly , dramatically ; as in the flamenco itself . |
| 17 | On 20 June 1757 , Bartram acknowledged the February letter , together with six cedar cones , parts of the Dictionary and Figures , and confirmed that he had sent the Gale which he believed to be a new genus ; in this he was right , for L'Heritier later founded the genus Comptonia upon it . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Buxton initiated his Civilization Society in part because he feared that to wait for antislavery principles to permeate foreign societies of slaveholders , which he believed to be BFASS policy , ‘ would cost us half a century , and that implies the sacrifice of twenty five millions of the human race ’ . |
| 20 | De Gaulle had not set out to destroy the EEC , but to remould it in a more appropriate form , where the ‘ ambiguities ’ and ‘ mistakes ’ which he believed to be contained within the Treaty of Rome would be eliminated . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | " We have a constant succession of inexperienced teachers in the junior department , " he declared , and attributed the bad standard of education of the deaf to this factor and the prevailing negative attitude to signing , which he believed to be " a good servant , but a bad master . " |
| 23 | Crookes ' lectures were illustrated by brilliant and striking experiments , especially with the cathode rays , which he believed to be a stream of particles ; but his physics and mathematics were not sufficient for him to produce quantitative work in this field . |
| 24 | Last October his political career seemed over when , at its Harrogate conference , the party adopted a proabortion stance , which he believed to be repugnant . |
| 25 | Charles took one look at the proffered platitudes , which he knew to be absurd , and set about writing an alternative . |
| 26 | He had no problems in stocking these from the Far East , India or the Cape with help from Dutch merchant-ship captains , but he wanted to obtain those North American novelties which he knew to be flourishing at Chelsea , so in July 1736 Linnaeus came to England with a letter of introduction from Boerhaave to Sir Hans Sloane . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ The Family in happier times , ’ Cowley observed , picking up a wedding photograph which he knew to be of the Hatches ' daughter and Jack Stone . |
| 29 | But , in this case , we must suppose that he was both immoral and stupid : immoral in producing evidence which he knew to be forged , and stupid in not going further and producing the letters with their forged additions , for he would have known that a similar forgery supporting the monastic community at Canterbury had recently been submitted at Rome , and that it had been accepted and solemnly quoted to him by the pope as genuine . |
| 30 | Brundle , who had risen briefly to third place during the tyre stops , was again completely out of luck and , like Johnny Herbert , was forced to retire by a collision in which he seemed to be the innocent party . |