Example sentences of "what she [vb past] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sale was appealed by the collector 's widow , Gillian Sackler , who , overturning a lower court decision authorising the sale at Christie 's , argued that the Sackler children had acted in conflict of interest with the estate 's wishes , and that the collection should have been kept together , on long term loan at the National Gallery , Washington , in compliance with what she believed to be the collector 's intent . |
| 2 | The profound anguish and hopeless despair of this woman in the face of what she believed to be the moral ruin of her whole life can not well be described . |
| 3 | The ‘ chair ’ moved swiftly to his rescue , bowling him what she thought to be a slow ball . |
| 4 | David Wright , prosecuting for Liverpool environmental health department , said : ‘ She began to eat the roll and felt what she thought to be a chunky piece of lettuce . |
| 5 | Two floors above , Jude heard what she took to be a domestic argument , and not wanting somebody else 's marital strife to sour her fine mood , was crossing to turn up the soul song on the turntable when somebody knocked on the door . |
| 6 | All this was to change , however , in the year she describes as ‘ extraordinary ’ , 1963 , as a result of what she took to be the effect that television was having on public debate . |
| 7 | The arrival of the Brownings and her husband in Florence at the beginning of June was the beginning of what she felt to be a softening of her self and she was glad to find the hard crust she felt encasing her crack and dissolve . |
| 8 | It had come her way because , leaving them in charge of Mrs Gracie , Dinah had gone for diversion to what she expected to be a dull sewing-meeting in the Islington church where she and Paul had been married . |
| 9 | At the sight of a title he felt that he must bend the knee for her sake , as he knew that his wife yearned to enter what she saw to be the utterly perfect circle of society , conversation , fashion and taste described by the British aristocracy . |
| 10 | The action caused his kiss to deepen until suddenly , with what she sensed to be an effort of will , he appeared to pull himself together . |
| 11 | When she was young and maybe a little wilful , Elizabeth had made what she deemed to be the right decision , and she had suffered because of it . |
| 12 | Tall windows stared bleakly down at her from what she guessed to be the great hall . |
| 13 | A large sculpture , primitive in nature and in texture , African she thought , although she had not cared to ask him , fearing he might expand rather more than she had bargained for on the origins of what she suspected to be a goddess of fertility . |
| 14 | She clambered up into the car to take a closer look at them , careful though to remain at what she considered to be a safe distance . |
| 15 | She had also decided to invite Louise and Miriam , whom she wanted to impress with her domestic abilities , but only after a struggle in which she was torn between the pleasure of impressing them and the displeasure of having two more women and thereby disturbing what she considered to be a favourable balance of the sexes . |
| 16 | She was wearing what she considered to be an ageless garment — a hip-length coat of black watered taffeta ; the shoulders were rather too narrow and too sharply defined to be precisely fashionable , but the material was of most superior quality . |
| 17 | Frances Power Cobbe deplored the approval doctors gave to what she considered to be an essentially unhealthy lifestyle ; she had little faith in medical expertise and liked to recall the case of a women friend who , on deciding to stop seeing her doctor and carry on normally , promptly recovered . |