Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] to be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While that child is away , the organizer chooses someone to be the murderer . |
| 2 | Later , the College permitted him to be the veterinary examiner for the East India Company . |
| 3 | For all the enigmas in his career , Wojciech Jaruzelski seems himself to be the prototype of what the USSR has come to trust most in the Polish military outlook . |
| 4 | Of this person she could form no idea other than that Hugh believed him to be the owner of whatever was in the sack and that he was in some way connected with the outlaws ' Camp . |
| 5 | Tavett was too preoccupied with his fear that Wickham believed him to be the murderer to form any judgments . |
| 6 | Frank shows himself to be the only ventriloquist to move his lips but not his teeth . |
| 7 | The journalists in question consider themselves to be the media equivalent of the praetorian guard . |
| 8 | The Donatists considered themselves to be the church of the martyrs , and kept alive the old posture of the persecuted church in the new , much altered , times after Constantine . |
| 9 | They have been chosen for the posts in other parts of the country because their employers consider them to be the best people for these particular jobs . |
| 10 | Plus ça change : in the 1990s these words ( apart from their dated gender references ) remain as relevant and as enlightening as in the 1970s and at the beginning of the century : the problem of poverty is the condition of the normal man [ and woman ] in normal circumstances , neither better nor worse off than his [ or her ] neighbours , not of those whose failings qualify them to be the text for the moralist , and who are no more common in the manual working-classes than in other sections of the society . |
| 11 | We the local authority , I think people of Wiltshire expect us to be the lead agency in promoting sustainability and environmental , highlighting environmental issues , throughout the county . |
| 12 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 13 | ‘ Sir I take this libertey to aske the favour for my sister Smith the widow if you have the goodness to recommend her to be the patron for the infurmarey , as her incombe is so very scant , to live on . |
| 14 | To sidestep any arguments about who should inherit the party 's vast fortunes if a split occurs , the delegates declared themselves to be the legal heirs of the HSWP , whilst dissociating themselves from the old party 's ‘ crimes , false and mistaken principles and methods ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
| 16 | We have , of course , developed many other ways to show ourselves to be the masters of all creation — fox-hunting , fur-wearing , bull-fighting , and perhaps even scientific vivisection , to name but a few . |
| 17 | The motivation of the person required to make the decision is likely to be totally different from that of the person offering the decision — yet too often the presenter of the decision imagines it to be the same . |
| 18 | The Aztecs believed it to be the ‘ sweat of the sun ’ whilst the Egyptians connected gold with their Sun God , Ra . |
| 19 | And landlords and people of substance , who might normally offer charitable relief of their own , would certainly guard their purses as long as the government declared itself to be the great provider . |
| 20 | erm they have not in the past proved themselves to be the most capable o of people to er to support these things so in conclusion I 'd say that we must put this as part of a shopping list , the shopping list is on there er it is something to bring London and the South East of England which includes Hertfordshire and to make it an economic and viable area and look at the evidence of the other cities and I hope that er all of you will support the motion . |
| 21 | Tuppe knew himself to be the stuff of epics . |
| 22 | This became extended through the process of emulation , by which lower groups in the hierarchy sought to copy the higher groups , a strategy so fundamental that Veblen believed it to be the foundation for the concept of private property ( 1970 : 33–40 ) . |
| 23 | As for Feng-shiu , although Mr Broadhurst declared it to be the most ridiculous of all these esoteric studies , it did help my geography . |
| 24 | Each purchaser was given a document stating him to be the owner of the quantity he had purchased of the wine in question . |
| 25 | Lesley set herself to be the most enlightening and intelligent of guides . |
| 26 | The KSR1 is scalable to 1,088 custom 64-bit CMOS processors and the company claims it to be the fastest computer currently available and deliverable , a full KSR1–1088 configuration delivering peak performance of 43 GFLOPS with 34Gb of memory . |
| 27 | The primatial claim was the richest and rarest of the gifts of which the monks of Canterbury believed themselves to be the custodians . |
| 28 | And the only Church adviser with a constitutional right to speak thought that he would be wrong to tell the Queen the name of the person whom his instincts told him to be the right person . |
| 29 | Mark rose from his chair fully aware that politicians believed themselves to be the best informed people in the world , which made them a very sceptical audience for any speaker . |
| 30 | In a striking phrase , Enzensberger suggests that ‘ artistic productivity reveals itself to be the extreme marginal case of a much more widespread productivity ’ ( ibid : 46 ) . |