Example sentences of "which i [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I may have seen many Garter Snakes on sale which I took to be pattern variations on the species most commonly available . |
| 2 | A soft pattering followed which I took to be matches falling around the receiver . |
| 3 | A woman was driving and she parked beside our land-cruiser , nodding to us briefly as she stepped out onto the road and flung a series of questions at the Indian , half in Spanish and half in a more guttural tongue , which I took to be Quechua . |
| 4 | There were dots in some of the distant fields which I assumed to be sheep . |
| 5 | However , I would also like to remind him that I wrote in response to a report which I assumed to be factual . |
| 6 | As I flew the approach I observed quite a tall tree on the threshold , which I assumed to be the obstruction . |
| 7 | And the remaining difference which I estimate to be one thousand five hundred , is really the I think is the difference in the treatment of students . |
| 8 | The distortion on the unit , which I expected to be awful , is actually very good , although I do n't think it quite lives up to Ibanez 's claim that the unit could serve as a preamp , when linked to an amplifier . |
| 9 | Thus was I punished for wanting to go to these places , which I knew to be prisons for God . |
| 10 | I wanted to choose for myself , yes , but I also wanted to escape into a world of certainties , which I knew to be unreal while desperately wanting to believe that it might have some reality . |
| 11 | I said I was n't sure , but I gave them a phone number which I knew to be Nassim 's office above a leather warehouse in Brick Lane . |
| 12 | Léandre Schlegel ( 1844–1913 ) is represented by the sixth , somewhat characterless , piece of Der arme Peter , which I assume to be a ‘ suite ’ of some sort ( Willem Noske 's otherwise intelligent and informative notes do not tell us ) . |
| 13 | You will , I fear , have found my monosyllabic utterances rather unrewarding material for linguistic analysis ( which I assume to be the philosophical method you are following ) — and my frequent silences even more intractable . |
| 14 | This overt intervention in our lives was experienced by me as entirely beneficent , so I find it difficult to match an analysis of the welfare policies of the late forties which calls " the post-war Labour government … the last and most glorious flowering of late Victorian liberal philanthropy " , 6 which I know to be correct , with the sense of self that those policies imparted . |
| 15 | Yes Mr Chairman , erm I shall move the obvious suggested resolution with amendments which I wish to be circulated in the last . |
| 16 | Erm with without a new settlement erm that that was indeed the the impression that erm I was left with as well , and what what we 've sought to do in in the evidence that we 've we 've put before you is to take the nine seven , nine thousand seven hundred figure in Greater York , and and er s based on the data supplied by the County Council to demonstrate that that actually when one looks at outstanding commitments erm with planning permission , identified the sites er without planning permission , those those that are allocated in local plans , making suitable allowances for small sites erm windfall sites and conversion , erm the the residual figure that is left in Greater York , which I calculate to be eight thousand six hundred and thirty seven , once one has taken away completions , which I think is an agreed figure between nineteen ninety one and nineteen ninety three of one thousand and sixty three , that erm , those existing commitments , and the sites likely to come forward , ma virtually match the figure for the outstanding housing requirement , so so one is left with a view that erm from from the data that 's put in front of us that there is n't a residue of that size to accommodate , although I accept that there may well be a residue of some sort , erm and it seems to me that the established Greater York erm framework , er is is the process by which that is distributed around the counties along the lines that the discussion 's proceeded this morning . |
| 17 | I felt a huge emptiness in which I feared to be dissolved . |
| 18 | Er my Lord er the second observation I make about erm Mr opinion erm and the facts upon which it is based is that his opinion is hotly disputed er , not least because of what it would be submitted is the highly speculative nature of this enterprise er , when you are being asked to consider with the benefit of hindsight , whether or not a business entered into some eighty years ago , was likely to have failed and er it is also an exercise which in my submission is entirely irrelevant if your Lordship would find the basis of compensation which I contend for is the one because the logic of not having to become involved in any investigation of whether or not this business would probably have been unsuccessful in any event . |
| 19 | And now that it is 8.58 pm and I have done fifty-eight minutes of work , which I deem to be more than enough for one night I am signing off , because , I 'm lazy . |
| 20 | If I say ‘ Prostitution is on the increase ’ I express my belief that it is on the increase , but what I put upon the mat for discussion is not my holding the belief , but rather the state of affairs , which I hold to be actual , but which others may not , of prostitution being on the increase . |
| 21 | ( All matters which I judged to be vital and contemporary ! ) |
| 22 | ( 39 ) A hand which I noticed to be surprisingly powerful . |
| 23 | I am embarking on a number of projects which I hope to be of interest to fellow treasure hunters . |
| 24 | This was printed privately in a limited edition of 250 copies , and in its preface the author expressed his gratitude to his father and to his eldest brother , Charles William Boase [ q.v. ] , ‘ for their great kindness in conjointly defraying the cost of printing this work which I claim to be an important contribution to the English biography of the nineteenth century ’ . |
| 25 | If many of Hewlett 's correspondents felt as Mrs Lowndes did , this explains why Hewlett 's letters as edited by Laurence Binyon ( 1925 ) make such unexciting reading ; she herself records that of the three hundred letters printed by Binyon there was only one ‘ which I felt to be characteristic of the man I knew so well ’ . |
| 26 | It might dilute the real body of work which I felt to be making some kind of contribution . |
| 27 | I confirm that this is the name by which I intend to be known in all my professional practices as a lawyer . |
| 28 | They exchanged what he describes , with lowered eyes , as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ , which I imagine to be a sordid discussion about the cost of one swift and surely emotionally unsatisfying and physically degrading copulation , and proceeded on their way up the now rapidly dusking street — one of them bright with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and the other already stepping into the heavy gloom of unavoidable and deserved shame or guilt . |
| 29 | It was from the beginning very successful , which I take to be evidence of the growing sense that the established English synthesis was weakening , with a corresponding desire among students and teachers for new orientations . |
| 30 | But the way in which the very limits of its historical materialism ( which I take to be the most developed statement of the case available in English ) put back on the agenda questions one had considered closed . |