Example sentences of "what i [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 31 | I have merely tried to unravel what I take to be some of the main underlying oversimplifications which have informed educational practices in the field of ‘ race ’ and education , whether state-led or self-consciously oppositionist . |
| 32 | I use it in what I take to be its essential sense , to mean that both the society as a whole and the system of government were organized on a principle of freedom of choice … |
| 33 | One well-known and well-publicised attempt in recent philosophy to address this problem in a " non-reductivist " spirit has gone under the name of Existentialism , and I shall now comment briefly on what I take to be the main features of the existentialist approach before outlining my own position . |
| 34 | Over the cream pebble-dash and olive grey windows of the great house , some turrets may yet be seen beneath what I take to be the original small roof-slates ; and a plaque high on the wall — ; ‘ 1635 RE ’ with what looks like ‘ ID ’ ; and a couple of lions guarding the door . |
| 35 | Early in 1975 , when the condition of her health — she had had a recurrence of cancer — was obviously very serious , Elizabeth wrote to me about the letters , requesting the destruction of her own after her death , and asking what I wished to be done with mine . |
| 36 | Then I provided what I hoped to be the optimum conditions for healthy growth — perfect drainage . |
| 37 | My Lords , that concludes my analysis of what I perceive to be the important British cases but before seeking to draw conclusions therefrom I must refer to certain Commonwealth and American cases . |
| 38 | Now I am never ashamed of anything , for I consider shame to be a bourgeois and petty emotion , but this was the one occasion when I felt ashamed of myself , and I have never forgotten how sad it made me to have denied my principles for the sake of friendship and love — or what I imagined to be love . |
| 39 | This political landscape stood in some contrast to what I understood to be the quite exceptional role played by West Ham in the historical development of the Labour Party and the trade union and cooperative movements . |
| 40 | Daphne came from one of the best families in London , certainly from what I understood to be the upper classes , so once I left St Paul 's I assumed we would never come across each other again . |
| 41 | Everything was subject to a harsh , hard and broken edge which intruded in what I felt to be a very unmusical fashion . |
| 42 | The younger said in Arabic what I assumed to be , ‘ Hey , have you seen this ? ’ |
| 43 | It took an hour to free the Nissan from what I assumed to be its grave , and persuade its bent and battered metal to press on southwards . |
| 44 | ‘ Being a professional tennis player is what I want to be , ’ says Delgado . |
| 45 | " But it 's not what I want to be . |
| 46 | ‘ I have no … merits yet ; and what I want to be would be nothing to you . ’ |
| 47 | From what I want to be . |
| 48 | ‘ I 'm always what I want to be , ’ she said with a frown . |
| 49 | What I , and I having heard the director , what I want to be clear about , is that any decision which relates to closing local schools on , on economic grounds comes to the full county council , and is , is not dealt with by education . |
| 50 | I had what I suspected to be ‘ shin soreness ’ , inflammation where the tendon meets the bone , and for which rest is the only cure . |
| 51 | ‘ I adopted what I conceived to be a classless accent , ’ he said , ‘ as that is what I thought Byron ought to be and that is what I am . |
| 52 | What was much more important to me was the emergence of what I consider to be the breakdown of constitutional government . |
| 53 | Now , and while anxious not to bore the pants off either of my faithful readers , I feel bound to return to and to expand upon the theme as a result of what I consider to be a truly appalling piece of recent news . |
| 54 | This book collects together what I consider to be some of the major unsolved mysteries of science . |
| 55 | I turn , therefore , to what I consider to be the primary issue in this appeal , namely , whether there exists a principle whereby a subject who makes a payment in response to a demand of taxation ( or other like demand ) from the Crown which is unlawful either because it is wholly ultra vires or merely excessive thereby acquires a prima facie right to its repayment forthwith as money had and received . |
| 56 | His conclusion that the case did not fall within the class of cases involving unlawful demands colore officii is in line with what I consider to be the correct approach as enunciated by Isaacs and Windeyer JJ . |
| 57 | But in these four cases there are features that require the decision , which was relatively recent , to be reconsidered after what I consider to be a proper procedure . |
| 58 | I tend to steer away from what I consider to be the boring mainstream in cooking . |
| 59 | Second , Sklar 's concept lacks a genuinely global dimension because it has no clear analysis of the cultural-ideological sphere , and in particular , it misses what I consider to be the fundamental significance of the culture-ideology of consumerism . |
| 60 | My friend has his own sauna and spends what I consider to be excessive amounts of time in the sauna cabin with temperatures over 80 degrees centigrade . |