Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Try to do what everyone considers to be good ’ ( Romans 12:17 ) . |
| 2 | I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead . |
| 3 | Epictetus said , ‘ This is what I wish to be engaged in when death finds me , so that I may be able to say to God , ‘ Have I in any respect transgressed Thy commands ? |
| 4 | Alright , well then er , with that expression , of what I hope to be confidence , , in erm , the management of our affairs over this last year , erm , let me put the resolution at , as on the paper before you , I wo n't read it again . |
| 5 | I do n't make any apologies for that , and maybe it is going over the old ground , but unless we do it , unless we try to do it , if we 've done it the way before been and it has n't produced what we , what we want , then surely it 's not for us to sit back and say , ‘ Well , it 's been through that and it has n't worked ’ , surely we ought to try again , and that 's what I hope to be doing , sort of value your support and see you . |
| 6 | The development of the HyperCard was motivated by what I perceived to be missing from the literature of the subject : a framework for the study of electronic publishing . |
| 7 | Wealth , rank , life itself then seemed cheap to me , compared with the interests of ( what I believed to be ) the truth , and the will of my maker . |
| 8 | I saw it as a choice of what I believed to be my obligations , how I see motherhood . |
| 9 | ‘ Despite what I thought to be a clear understanding on the part of their coaching staff , the Republic 's squad that played against us in the St Patrick 's Day match in Enniskillen , was too old and too experienced . |
| 10 | In a speech at Leicester last Friday I stated what I took to be a constitutional axiom : ‘ All the public utterances of the sovereign , ’ I said , ‘ are covered by the advice of ministers . ’ |
| 11 | Shiny new BMWs were lined up for sale on the forecourt of what I took to be a condemned block of woefully austere flats , with a dilapidated factory next door . |
| 12 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 13 | He gave orders in what I took to be the local dialect . |
| 14 | In particular , whereas I had fairly strong evidence that one particular set of rules , the bureaucratic format as I called it , was standard in NHS consultations and common in the American consultations on which I had data , what I took to be a further distinct mode , the ‘ charity ’ format , was used by only one of the American doctors in the study . |
| 15 | I was glad to find the original material in what I took to be splendid condition , still clearly bearing the marks of the sculptor 's chisel . |
| 16 | But nothing can take away the pleasure that I derived from looking at what I took to be a photograph . |
| 17 | I found what I took to be high water mark with my feet rather than my eyes . |
| 18 | I sat with a cup of coffee on my lap , still half-asphyxiated by what I took to be Neapolitan warmth . |
| 19 | At one point , Paul Fox the managing director of BBC TV threw forth into the welter of conversation what I took to be the following line : ‘ Well , what do we all think of yesterday 's historic meeting , eh ? |
| 20 | Almost immediately , the birds in the angsana responded by flying out in a flock , showing what I took to be anxiety by sinking to the ground and then rapidly rising again . |
| 21 | She looked at me with what I took to be concern . |
| 22 | I also found what I took to be a sporting pistol , with a beautifully engraved silver stock . |
| 23 | She was grotesquely dressed in what I took to be nothing more than the two sheets that had covered her on the bench , clumsily knotted about her vast frame ; perhaps because of that , there was something poignant in those androgynous movements parodying grace . |
| 24 | Will he convey to the Prime Minister what I know to be the view of the three party leaders who represent Northern Ireland in the House — that we are endeavouring diligently to meet the wishes that he expressed at the Downing street meeting on 11 February ? |
| 25 | I can only put down what I know to be the truth as far as I can tell . |
| 26 | It had a title which was not the most inspiring one I had heard in what I presumed to be my life , but told of the one man who had a great impression on me . |
| 27 | This is not justice ; it is not even a theory of morality , since it rejects a consideration of what I take to be central to moral theory , the sense of each person being a member of a community with , inevitably , obligations and duties to others , as well as rights . |
| 28 | That is what I take to be the goal of all writing : to open up fenced-off plots , to water tracts of land that have dried out , to make accessible thoughts and feelings that readers never knew they had or thought they were not allowed to have . |
| 29 | All I can make out is what I take to be the outer port engine and that 's no help at all . |
| 30 | In this chapter I therefore discuss what I take to be the strongest case for absolute holism in contemporary social science , the case expounded by Louis Althusser . |