Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [adv] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | As time went on , and particularly by the early Seventies , I began to question whether one could take this point of view in a situation where things were going on which I clearly saw to be ‘ bad ’ . |
| 2 | It is a claim additional to this , but one which I also believe to be true , that human conventions , at least beyond a certain state of elaboration , can be understood only with the help of history , and that the social sciences accordingly have an essential historical base . |
| 3 | In this he stated his loyalty to the ‘ Church of England , whose faith and government and worship are … free from the extremes of irreverence and superstition … and which I firmly believe to be a sound part of the Church universal ; and which teaches me charity to those who dissent from me ’ . |
| 4 | So I got er experience of three months now , that was really very nice experience which I always wanted to be a teacher although I did n't join here . |
| 5 | When I rejoined the conversation you were talking about your ‘ strikers ’ and your ‘ defenders ’ , by which I for a moment thought you meant the miners and their supporters , but which I then understood to be part of an extended football metaphor and to refer respectively to your Policy Unit and your Private Office . |
| 6 | In the first case , I remember watching the old man come slowly down the stairs after ‘ a secret operation ’ never openly discussed but which I now take to be a colostomy . |
| 7 | It has taken me 30 years to come to terms with my own guilt , which I now know to be unjustified , and with my anger . |
| 8 | The very next day , Sunday , I would have to attend the same chapel in its religious function , and the fact that the previous evening it had been a battleground for people who were supposed to be friends and allies , while the ‘ enemy ’ got on with his job uninterrupted outside , led to a more or less permanent confusion in my mind , which I now believe to be totally justified , between violence and religion , and between fact and fancy [ or film ] . |
| 9 | He was particularly scathing about the feather , which she immediately agreed to be a mistake . |
| 10 | Although alienating some support by her excessive regard for the physiologically and morally uplifting properties of semen , she emphasized the erotic , mystical , and fulfilling aspects of sexual relations and for these reasons rejected the use of coitus interruptus and the condom , recommending instead the use of the vaginal rubber cap and the quinine ( spermicidal ) pessary which she naïvely believed to be generally available in chemist 's shops and which have never , in the event , proved to be very popular . |
| 11 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |
| 12 | But sex , homicide , and religious cult are categories which we somehow expect to be hedged about by taboo , everywhere , always . |
| 13 | ( These diets could be said to have been half-right , in that they did cut out refined carbohydrates , but unfortunately without adding fibre-rich carbohydrate foods which we now know to be of such help to slimmers . ) |
| 14 | However , in the passage in which he specifically considers whether a woman can be ordained , his answering in the negative , it must be pointed out , is dependent on biological presuppositions which we now know to be false . |
| 15 | Proof Half of the theorem has been proved already ; Lemma 1.3.9 and Remark ( ii ) following it show that every integer greater than 1 ( respectively , less than -1 ) can be expressed as a product of ( respectively , -1 times a product of ) finitely many positive irreducibles ( which we now know to be primes ) . |
| 16 | To make matters worse , the college authorities interpreted it as a reflection on the conduct and organization of the society , which they accordingly ordered to be disbanded with immediate effect . |
| 17 | The researchers fed the emerging larvae , which they later found to be equally male or female , on sloth hair ( on which a green algae often grows ) , sloth dung , and leaves from those trees on which sloths generally feed . |
| 18 | Police searching the plaintiff 's premises for stolen goods seized goods which they mistakenly thought to be stolen . |
| 19 | The elderly do not always want to be on the receiving end , and any gift of food they offer us , whether it is a meal or just a pot of home-made jam , should be accepted with appreciation , for all such gifts are a part of the pattern of love in which they still wish to be involved . |
| 20 | But although they were terrified of the Magistrate , who in more peaceful times had so often savaged their verses , the ladies in the billiard room stoutly refused to volunteer for the banqueting hall , which they wrongly believed to be more dangerous than the Residency except for Lucy , who was generally acknowledged to have nothing to live for anyway . |
| 21 | Rod Richards , Tory MP for Clwyd North West , yesterday wrote to the Ambassador requesting the meeting , at which he also wishes to be present . |
| 22 | A former Travel Writer of the Year , Neil 's first word as a baby was ‘ wuhu ’ , which he later discovered to be a town on the Yangtze River . |
| 23 | Luke 's hand moved on , his light fingertip locating the tiny peak of sensitivity which he already knew to be utterly vulnerable to his skills , and Maria moaned softly as a pang of piercingly erotic sensation went thrilling through her . |
| 24 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 25 | In Harris v. Nickerson ( 1873 ) the plaintiff travelled to the advertised place for the auction sale which he then found to be cancelled . |
| 26 | A revelation which William James experienced when taking nitrous oxide took the form of doggerel , which he genuinely believed to be of enormous significance while he was under the influence of the drug : Higamous Hogamous , women are monogamous , Hogamous higamous , men are polygamous . |
| 27 | He was justifiably proud of this splendid work which he rightly considered to be his main literary achievement . |
| 28 | The author of what I later discovered to be a scholarly , if tendentious , account of us foreign policy since Korea , he expressed a fastidious regret for the instruments America had to work through but justified the excesses of the client governments by reference to the worse alternative of Marxist dictatorship . |
| 29 | However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn . |
| 30 | With the ‘ demographic shift ’ of the 1990 's we must take every opportunity to encourage more girls and young women to follow what I firmly believe to be a most rewarding of careers . |