Example sentences of "to what he [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | At Oxford , Mr Gould joined the Labour Party partly in response to what he saw as an attempt by the City to frustrate the 1964 election results and he has retained a disdain for the get-rich-quick philosophy of the City ever since . |
| 2 | He decided to try to shake Sien out of her black mood by acting angrily , responding abnormally to what he saw as abnormality . |
| 3 | However , in the same short speech , he made reference to what he saw as the enormous power of the mass media : the press was ‘ one of the major forces in shaping this world ’ — a situation he did not entirely welcome . |
| 4 | This was inevitable because Jesus remained totally obedient to what he saw as the will of God for him . |
| 5 | Leicester abolitionists regarded all of this as ‘ classed with the most established maxims of political economy ’ while Josiah Conder in a pamphlet bluntly titled Wages or the Whip pointed to what he saw as the disastrous economic effects peculiar to the slave system — exhaustion of the soil , no change in crops cultivated , little rotation , lack of use of livestock and a low level of technology . |
| 6 | Kuhn quotes Wolfgang Pauli 's response to what he saw as the growing crisis in physics around 1924 . |
| 7 | It was equally predictable that these contacts were liveliest with the West Frankish church ; and that it was Charles the Bald who responded most strongly , both positively , to papal appeals for help , and also aggressively , to what he saw as papal interference in the West Frankish church 's political concordat with his own regime . |
| 8 | His unforgiving attitude to what he saw as infidelity . |
| 9 | However , Sartre was no more prepared than Merleau-ponty to return to what he characterized as Marxist organicism , in which the laws of history unfold according to their own autonomous momentum . |
| 10 | As Ives ( 1987 ) has pointed out , the issue of environmental degradation in the Himalaya is extremely complex and has been extensively debated during the 1980s , giving rise to what he describes as the Himalaya Environmental Degradation Theory ( HEDT ) . |
| 11 | The hon. Gentleman referred in his question , and in a conversation on radio during the weekend , to what he describes as ’ an increasing number ’ of passenger train collisions . |
| 12 | Durkheim ( 1893 ) , in his discussion of the ‘ abnormal forms ’ of the division of labour , long ago drew attention to what he regarded as a condition of ‘ anomie ’ in the sphere of production , characterized by the absence of a body of rules governing the relations between different social functions — above all between labour and capital — and saw as both probable and desirable a growing normative regulation of industrial relations . |
| 13 | All of his energies were devoted to bringing the conversation round to the topic of food and drink , but Donald , once he had explained , or failed to explain , the Madonna Complex , moved swiftly on to what he described as his problem , which turned out to be law and order . |
| 14 | The Minister has referred to what he described as administrative matters that he thinks are not amenable to legislation . |
| 15 | Deputy Foreign Minster Ali Mohammed Besharati responded to the visit by referring to what he described as the UN human rights commission 's constant criticism of Iran , which he implied was politically motivated . |
| 16 | He criticised the attitude of Scottish Office ministers to what he described as the gravest crisis in employment Scotland has faced since the war . |