Example sentences of "what he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hardly surprising , no doubt , since the entire thrust of Nizan 's work was aimed at disrupting what he perceived as the hypocritical serenity and intolerable indifference of an unjust world . |
| 2 | Nizan 's disappointment at the realisation that the new Soviet society was still very much in its infancy , and that a fully developed Soviet state , liberated from morbid thoughts of death , was still only a distant future possibility , merely served to heighten his anger at what he perceived as the limitless class oppression of French society : hunger , poverty , torture , war . |
| 3 | Once I asked him what he thought of the French system of criminal justice and he replied that during his career he had no time left over from practising our own system to study any other ( which I think is representative of the Bar as a whole ) . |
| 4 | Well Locke 's contemporaries would know exactly what he meant in the late seventeenth century . |
| 5 | When he started saying what he felt about the new clothes , Vivienne piled into him . |
| 6 | Asked what he felt about the nominal fine , he replied , " Not a lot , " before heading to the practice ground to repair a swing which has won him just £8,750 this season . |
| 7 | What he said at the Tory Party Conference last year was that he was going to set the agenda ; the environmental agenda for the nineties . |
| 8 | All these groups can think that Mr Clinton is their man because of what he said during the mesmerising presidential campaign of 1992 . |
| 9 | The playwright St John Ervine was standing nearby and described what he saw to the Daily Mail : |
| 10 | But he was equally unhappy with the typical alternative , with what he saw as the uneasy combination of materialism and immaterialism . |
| 11 | In any case , the language coming from the Chairman 's office was usually that of pure political correctness , with many attacks on censorship and on what he saw as the benighted enemies of art . |
| 12 | O'Neill made an impassioned defence of his policies on television and appealed for support for what he saw as the only course that could save Ulster from deepening civil unrest . |
| 13 | The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ) and the The Woodlanders ( 1887 ) marked first his literary return to Wessex and then his growing conviction that fiction should not conceal what he saw as the essential tragedy of the human condition . |
| 14 | ‘ Progressive ’ educational sentiments also provided important elements in Baden-Powell 's Boy Scout philosophy , and he never tired of criticising what he saw as the dulling conformity and uninspired education provided by the State . |
| 15 | Another important aspect of Marx 's notion of the Asiatic mode of production is that it offers an explanation of what he saw as the surprising stability of Asian states . |
| 16 | Although starting in psychoanalysis as a pupil of Freud , his work soon spread into what he saw as the related spheres of biology , physics , meteorology , astronomy and politics . |
| 17 | Appalled at the annual wakes week , with its general exodus to Morecambe and Blackpool , and what he saw as the mindless spending of hard-earned wages on inane amusements , Leonard proposed an alternative form of holiday . |
| 18 | He now had reasons beyond his own inclinations to support Israel because of what he saw as the growing global challenge by the Soviet Union , most immediately felt in Vietnam . |
| 19 | Rousseau 's dislike of " sectional associations " sprang from what he saw as the growing tendency for people to identify themselves primarily with these associations and their interests rather than with the community as a whole , and so to forget their duties as citizens . |
| 20 | Kuhn quotes Wolfgang Pauli 's response to what he saw as the growing crisis in physics around 1924 . |
| 21 | The new restrictions were thought to derive from the Prime Minister 's concern at what he saw as the growing influence of " exclusivist " religions such as Christianity and Islam . |
| 22 | Albert 's purpose in writing his book , published in the original French two years ago , was to warn a developing European Community against what he saw as the growing dominance of the American way of capitalism . |
| 23 | His Religion Within the Limits of Reason Alone expounds what he saw as the ethical basis of religion . |
| 24 | However , in the same short speech , he made reference to what he saw as the enormous power of the mass media : the press was ‘ one of the major forces in shaping this world ’ — a situation he did not entirely welcome . |
| 25 | He was less bothered by the thought of arms sales , however , than by what he saw as the fundamental unreality of the proposal . |
| 26 | He criticized in particular what he saw as the fundamental flaw in a system based on the pursuit of points : that a team was given a point before it even kicked a ball . |
| 27 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 28 | Leicester abolitionists regarded all of this as ‘ classed with the most established maxims of political economy ’ while Josiah Conder in a pamphlet bluntly titled Wages or the Whip pointed to what he saw as the disastrous economic effects peculiar to the slave system — exhaustion of the soil , no change in crops cultivated , little rotation , lack of use of livestock and a low level of technology . |
| 29 | Irwin 's policy , then , was amity , meaning the perpetuation of government by those genetically equipped for it , in what he saw as the public interest , with public support . |
| 30 | ‘ There is apparently some great defect in our system , ’ concluded Khrushchev from his pensioner 's park bench as he compared what he saw of the capitalist West with the shoddy goods , poor food and massive waste of the supposed workers ' paradise . |