Example sentences of "[pron] to be [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fear the Tory tabloids have made it difficult for those of us anti-Leftists who consider ourselves to be of a more reflective disposition . |
| 2 | ‘ Once upon a time I 'd 've made you turn religious , ’ said Constance , and suddenly it occurred to Scarlet that really she was already religious , as anyone who had borne a child must surely be : not in the conventional sense but rather as a passenger on a train would expect someone to be at the controls . |
| 3 | In January 1312 , as soon as he felt himself to be beyond the reach of the barons , the favourites were restored . |
| 4 | Michael , I suspect , considered himself to be on the losing side and probably wished he was on the winning side . |
| 5 | In 1919 Eliot felt himself to be in a similar position . |
| 6 | He imagined himself to be in the centre of the city now , surrounded by its magnificent old crumbling buildings , its churches and palaces , villas and castles filled with the rich trappings of the centuries and set about by the bustle , the noise , the filth , squalor and abject poverty of the streets . |
| 7 | He felt himself to be in the presence of a creative genius and experienced " enjoyments of such peculiar piquancy that today I am not quite my old self … |
| 8 | She watched him in reluctant fascination as he put to her , ‘ When it comes to being irresponsible , your brother , I 'm afraid , has already proved himself to be in the top league . ’ |
| 9 | Just want you to be on the safe side . |
| 10 | For the same reason , I suggest that you avoid overseas package tours that require you to be at the airport in the early hours of the morning , or very late at night , when you may have difficulty travelling to the airport safely . |
| 11 | We want you to be among the very first in Britain to benefit from these developments and to enjoy them ! |
| 12 | Because , by the time we reach the house where the twins are staying , I expect you to be in a friendly , pleasant state of mind . |
| 13 | ‘ I would n't like you to be in the wrong situation … ’ |
| 14 | It is not necessary to book seats in advance but we would ask you to be in the McEwan Hall not later than 10.20 am . |
| 15 | So I really want you to be like a proper sort of little girl . |
| 16 | The point is that black people are not only at a disadvantage in the job market on account of their colour , they also perceive sharply that this is so and , despite Johnson 's tongue-in-cheek addendum , the consciousness of belonging to a group which feels itself to be at a disadvantage is clear enough . |
| 17 | MERSEYSIDE has once again shown itself to be at the centre of new writing talent . |
| 18 | And it slopes towards the window so I 've actually taken the measurement nearest the erm windows itself to be on the safe side . |
| 19 | this does no mean that Bristol considers itself to be outside the Continent . |
| 20 | The rest of his property he left to his girl Agnes and to their child , if it were born alive , and if it showed itself to be of a good , kind character . |
| 21 | Israel 's uniqueness stems from the fact that it considers itself to be in a perpetual state of war with its Arab neighbours which , together with the Nazi barbarities of the last war , is somehow supposed to make the rest of the world feel permanently sorry for Israel and give it the right to carry out any intelligence operations it likes . |
| 22 | ‘ James likes everything to be on a personal basis . |
| 23 | The rain , however , failed to silence the pen of Parsons ( never one to be at a loss for a line or two of copy ! ) . |
| 24 | But er I knew that it was n't poss always possible for one to be at the branch meeting you see . |
| 25 | Maybe I should n't have , but I felt it was n't good for a little one to be in the same house . |
| 26 | Little has been written on the subject since then , but one may infer from the few remarks that are made on it that psychologists are no longer so impressed by ‘ the insuperable logical difficulty ’ James believed there to be in the way of saying that the difference between sensations may be one of ‘ place pure and simple ’ . |
| 27 | Although the latter point was delivered as a subtext it was as plain as all the rest and Miss Skelton knew herself to be in the ring . |
| 28 | All he had said was that his love-life was being well taken care of — and it was perfectly clear from the tenor of her greeting that Nina believed herself to be in the singular . |
| 29 | She now felt herself to be like the squirrel , staring with bright inimical eyes at a sad domestic beast . |
| 30 | It seemed the IRA had the capacity to bomb more towns , and Mr Mallon called for everyone to be on the alert . |