Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Middle Ages , when the French adjudged them to be alien , difficult and heathen , they were held to have descended from Scotsmen transported to Spain by Julius Caesar . |
| 2 | But EMAP said yesterday that by cutting overheads , it expected them to be profitable this year . |
| 3 | She expected them to be ready , mounted , properly turned out and willing . |
| 4 | After the heavy rains of the past days I expected them to be full , and they were , a lot fuller than when I had seen them the year before . |
| 5 | Tests on the items at the Oxford research laboratory for art and archaeology revealed them to be modern . |
| 6 | Although the countries of the European Free Trade Association had worked out trade arrangements with the Community , recent decisions of the European Court ruled them to be incompatible with the treaty of Rome . |
| 7 | They were sighted in China , where those who attempted to eat them reported them to be tasteless or unpleasant . |
| 8 | AB still appears shorter than BC even after I have measured them and found them to be equal . |
| 9 | The C-terminal portion of region 1 , poorly conserved in the related IE proteins of the α-herpesviruses , was also included in our expressed peptide ; the role played by these additional residues is not fully understood but deletion analysis on the 140k DNA binding domain found them to be necessary for the production of a clear DNase I footprint but not for binding in gel retardation assays ( see below ) . |
| 10 | I found them to be cheerful , reassuring old men , and delightful conversationalists . |
| 11 | On finally seeing these creatures , mating in the high forest canopy like cataracts of spun glass , we found them to be transparent with a deeper meaning , something which lay beyond them , in the undiscovered wisdom of the islanders themselves . |
| 12 | ( 18 ) It [ = the whisky ] helped me to be brave . |
| 13 | Tonight , as she spoke o£ the convent , that frightened , insecure schoolgirl-woman had broken through the shell of sophistication and touched him again , moved him to be tender . |
| 14 | Before long he recognised Eva 's ability and invited her to be vice president . |
| 15 | The Herald spoke to Patricia Routledge and found her to be keen to return to the Yvonne Arnaud , where the audiences recently warmed to her in Alan Bennett 's Talking Heads . |
| 16 | Instead she stood with her eyes closed , lest they betrayed the fact that she found him to be disturbing to her . |
| 17 | For confirmation I visited him in prison , where in protest against his incarceration he had put himself in solitary confinement , and found him to be sandy-haired , bullet-headed and verbose , yet with a redeeming sense of humour ; his passionate denials of having played any part in the Ayr murder were too convincing to have been invented . |
| 18 | Venicoff it was held that when the Secretary of State was deporting a person where he deemed it to be conducive to the public good , he was acting in an executive and not in a judicial capacity . |
| 19 | I pulled it free and found it to be sand-frosted and pear-shaped , like the one Nicky had shown me . |
| 20 | They 're very pleased at that because I mean they obviously found it to be useful , erm we proved it to be useful and it 's nice to see them all taking on this responsibility now , now and doing it , because that 's all progress . |
| 21 | When used with the to infinitive , on the other hand , find denotes rather the discovery of a fact : ( 96 ) I measured the tail of the dead rat , and found it to be two yards long . |
| 22 | White continues , ‘ As I never possessed the sense of smelling , and was willing to ascertain the flavour of the liquor , I tasted and found it to be aromatic , tho ’ not very pungent , partaking of the taste of catchup and of the pickle of Spanish olives . ’ |
| 23 | When she touched the stone she found it to be sticky . |
| 24 | For example , Lancaster and Chesher ( 1983 ) estimated the reservation wage elasticity with respect to benefits to be only 0.14 and NN found it to be 0.16 . |
| 25 | The more ignorant the AE was , the easier he found it to be enthusiastic . |
| 26 | When I got closer I found it to be empty and forgotten ; cattle grazed up to its outer walls , its projecting porch was thick with ivy , its gardens with nettles . |
| 27 | Chamberlain ( 1989 ) studied this relationship for eurodollars and UK futures in US dollars and found it to be positive , contrary to expectations . |
| 28 | The thinner I became , the more difficult I found it to be comfortable , even when lying in bed . |
| 29 | I found it to be quiet , even when under pressure , and the hooked power pack means that it can be hung conveniently out of the way . |
| 30 | And it had been easy to ignore them , not to listen , to walk away , when he believed them to be just dirt . |