Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] be the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I take what I hope is the main path . |
| 2 | What I remember is the unrealistic blueness of the water . |
| 3 | It was going to be a long night , as I also had to finish an already over-due essay on Swedish expansion in the seventeenth century ( it would have to be a goodish one , too ; an earlier remark — made in an unguarded moment during a methodically boring tutorial — ascribing Swedish territorial gains in the Baltic to the invention of the Smorgasbord with its take-what-you-want ethic , had not endeared me to the professor concerned ; nor had my subsequent discourse on the innate frivolity of the Swedes , despite what I thought was the irrefutable argument that no nation capable of giving a Peace Prize to Henry Kissinger could possibly be accused of lacking a sense of humour . |
| 4 | And what I thought was the prettiest sight in Hannah 's meadows was the Geranium sylvaticum , or hay sward , which is a beautiful blue with a tinge of violet . |
| 5 | Whilst I did track down what I thought was the best , several of them , in fact quite a number of them , said " no " . |
| 6 | Good idea wo n't be a bad idea mm , what I thought was the tough steak has turned out to be the , the one that 's not I cut the steaks about a bit , one was a bit fattier than the other the one that I had I thought would be dead tough , is tender it 's int it ? they look more like a sirloin steak to me than a rump , even though it went under the name of rump it looked like you can only tell the shape of it ca n't , oh God |
| 7 | The choice of literature , as you realize was meant to be contrasting , and I put book down as an example of what I thought was the worst possible , er , use of use of psychoanalysis , kind of gutter journalism , erm and which you did n't look at , and it 's , it 's no criticism of you erm , because er , you had your work cut out with what you did do , but the reason I put down Gandhi 's Truth , if anybody 's ever read that , have they ? |
| 8 | I had acted out of good faith and in terms of what I thought were the best interests of my client . |
| 9 | My function was to select and train the Pathfinders , I was given the choice of what I claim was the best and if I did not pick the best . |
| 10 | I was one of the few ‘ non-official ’ witnesses at the inquiry into what I trust is the last colonial war that Britain will ever fight . |
| 11 | Folding the sheet containing the poem into what I hoped was the perfect paper 'plane , I waited until Mrs Burton 's back was turned and I launched the message-bearing missile in Belinda 's direction . |
| 12 | ‘ What I saw was the first draft of the first letter . |
| 13 | What I want is the best government for Rhodesia . ’ |
| 14 | Well what I want is the black and the cerise |
| 15 | ‘ Statistics are all very well and good , but what I want is the human angle . |
| 16 | It 's what I decided was the best idea all round . |
| 17 | Just do that that , that 's what I find is the best thing to do and then carry on with what you have to say and then the gestures become quite natural because all of this this is is not I 'm not trying |
| 18 | I mean , when I record a solo on an album , I put down on tape exactly what I think is the best possible lead for the song , so why should I mess with that ? |
| 19 | So after a little ‘ finding my way around ’ , I hit upon what I think is the best way to find the pole , using × 7 binoculars . |
| 20 | I shall pick out what I think is the decisive sentence : |
| 21 | It gives me the opportunity not only of placing on the official record the Committee 's thanks to its staff for their work , not only of drawing to the attention of the House what I think is the first debate on community care to be initiated in the Chamber which is not part of a debate on another measure , but also of drawing attention to the number of firsts that we score with this report and debate . |
| 22 | we I try and cover what we can in the lessons Not so much what we can but what I think is the right amount for you . |
| 23 | Well I want to talk much more about what I think are the unconscious and the not deliberate sources of bias . |
| 24 | So our achievements are significant , but they are fragile , and I want to conclude by outlining what I think are the principal features of our work that have bought some success . |
| 25 | Later in the book , I shall describe different manoeuvres , explaining what I think are the important factors . |
| 26 | ‘ She got on what I think was the wrong ride , and the tough part is that she was such a willing victim . |
| 27 | you just said Indian , and I 'm always trying to say what , what I believe is the correct thing to say these |
| 28 | I I have always been worried about the personalization of er what I believe is the great traditions in the Tory party . |
| 29 | I first met him during the early 1950s and I became editor of what I believe was the second journal in the now enormous Pergamon Press stable . |
| 30 | all the satellites hanging down it was very good the way it had all been done in , in that respect but what I found was the first bit was very boring , I found but when it got going a bit it was better but the whole moral of the story was that nowhere is perfect to live but it 's hard for y young children like this |