Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I discovered at this point , was that they , my Thai co-workers , also expected me to be the teacher for this newly organised project ! |
| 2 | I checked the engine number with Perkins ( whom I might add were extremely pleasant and helpful ) who later found it to be the 4236 , rated at 82 bhp . |
| 3 | And wherever he went in the city he found it to be the same . |
| 4 | He reported diligent perusal of the Dictionary and Figures and believed them to be the ‘ compleatest work of that kind extant ’ , but expressed his regret that many American plants had been omitted : he hoped to remedy this by sending specimens of growing plants within the next few years . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Tavett was too preoccupied with his fear that Wickham believed him to be the murderer to form any judgments . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The Aztecs believed it to be the ‘ sweat of the sun ’ whilst the Egyptians connected gold with their Sun God , Ra . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Such demands failed , however , to quell the discontent , which increasingly focused on Michael Heseltine as the only serious alternative to Mrs Thatcher , a view supported by polls that showed him to be the voters ' overwhelming choice to replace her . |
| 11 | As Argyll and lord James said , in their reply of the 13th in which they openly declared it to be the role of the nobles and council ‘ to provide that the ancient liberties of the realm be freed from tyranny of strangers ( and ) to abolish ( God assisting us ) all manifest idolatry and maintainers ’ , he had not been ‘ so full and plain as we expected ’ . |
| 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 | In the debate on a proposed Z$40,000,000 ( about US$8,500,000 ) allocation for the ministry , members of the House denounced it as a " completely useless " department and declared it to be the Ministry of Political Affairs ( which had been headed by Mutasa until its closure in June — ibid. ) under a different name . |
| 14 | The US economic hegemony , which allowed it to be the policeman of the world , cracked irretrievably in March 1968 . |
| 15 | Later , the College permitted him to be the veterinary examiner for the East India Company . |
| 16 | John Hinde , boss of the Manchester store , said : ‘ Nobody expected him to be the real thing . ’ |
| 17 | French workmen fleeing from the dock were fired on because the Germans thought this was an organised rising , the explosions coming so long after the raid that they took them to be the work of the Free French Resistance Movement and threatened reprisals if the ‘ revolt ’ did not stop . |
| 18 | ( 106 ) We thought it to be the right choice . |
| 19 | The explosion was in fact caused by members of the Guandong Army , but the Japanese announced it to be the work of non-uniformed members of the Chinese army . |
| 20 | He expected it to be the only example of its species on which he would set eyes . |
| 21 | Whether conscious or not of their own envy , the people in the most difficulty are those who feel they have been born the wrong sex — suspicious , or even quite clear , that their parents desperately wanted them to be the boy or girl they were not . |
| 22 | ‘ Nicole and I are getting married , ’ said Sir Vivien , ‘ and we wanted you to be the first to know . |
| 23 | But I wanted you to be the first I told . ’ |
| 24 | He does n't take rivalry with him off the competitive track , and at that time I considered him to be the Master with myself as the apprentice . |
| 25 | I considered him to be the most unemotional person I have ever known . |
| 26 | He likes all that , the cars and people calling him Minister , but he wanted her to be the good politician 's wife , doing his entertaining . |
| 27 | That he intended her to be the sensation of town Dinah did not yet realise , but if she had done so it would not have disturbed her . |
| 28 | He came upon Mary and anointed her to be the mother of the Lord . |
| 29 | I gave him a draft of the first chapter and explained that I wanted it to be the sort of book that would sell in airport book stalls . |