Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pn reflx] [prep] be the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Frank shows himself to be the only ventriloquist to move his lips but not his teeth . |
| 3 | The journalists in question consider themselves to be the media equivalent of the praetorian guard . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What irritates me about Vienna is a certain not-quite-definable smugness , a feeling that somehow this place feels itself to be the centre . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Tuppe knew himself to be the stuff of epics . |
| 11 | Lesley set herself to be the most enlightening and intelligent of guides . |
| 12 | The primatial claim was the richest and rarest of the gifts of which the monks of Canterbury believed themselves to be the custodians . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The regime declares itself to be the only true guardian of socialism , but can offer no answer to what is happening elsewhere except to denounce foreign interference and to assert that communism must inevitably triumph . |
| 16 | I think it 's a great tragedy that Wales considers itself to be the poor relation within the United Reform Church and the answer can only lie within Wales ! |