Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later , the College permitted him to be the veterinary examiner for the East India Company . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Tavett was too preoccupied with his fear that Wickham believed him to be the murderer to form any judgments . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Everywhere I go people expect me to be the happy person they see on TV . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Aztecs believed it to be the ‘ sweat of the sun ’ whilst the Egyptians connected gold with their Sun God , Ra . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | As for Feng-shiu , although Mr Broadhurst declared it to be the most ridiculous of all these esoteric studies , it did help my geography . |
| 13 | Each purchaser was given a document stating him to be the owner of the quantity he had purchased of the wine in question . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |