Example sentences of "know [pron] to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To know someone to be a gouger gives some policemen and women cause to believe that they have the excuse to ignore the minor requests for assistance that the person may make , and for his or her minor infringements of the law to be taken seriously . |
| 2 | Some of the courses I know , lecturers go drinking with the students and everything , but they 're all older , suits and ties and things , there 's nothing wrong with that , you just know them to be a lecturer and get on with the work rather than thinking , ‘ we had a nice drink last night , did n't we ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I know you to be a compassionate man , ’ the queen-dowager told him . |
| 4 | Here we might admit that my belief is true and justified but refuse to grant that I know there to be a sheep in the field . |
| 5 | ‘ I know him to be a child with a warm heart , ’ said Rose . |
| 6 | Yet even as I think it , I know it to be a ridiculous thought . |
| 7 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 8 | ‘ Have n't you always known me to be a respectable girl then , Dai ? ’ |
| 9 | She had watched him working delicately on the door , with all the attention to detail of the perfectionist , and had known him to be the sort who got what he wanted in life through hard work , never by taking the easy way out . |
| 10 | We say , for example , ‘ Looking at the Müller-Lyer figure , I would have said that AB was shorter than BC had I not known it to be an illusion ’ . |
| 11 | She knew me to be a rogue as soon as she clapped eyes on me and , whilst her father ushered me to a seat , she watched girlishly out of the corner of her eye . |
| 12 | ‘ I have n't said anything against them , ’ Gaily knew himself to be a tolerant man , ‘ the young … ’ |
| 13 | He knew himself to be a good forensic pathologist , reliable , more than competent professionally , almost obsessively thorough and painstaking , a convincing and unflappable witness . |
| 14 | He knew himself to be a magical dropout , so it did n't bother him that the mere appearance of a hero at the city gates was enough to cause retorts to explode and demons to materialise all through the Magical Quarter . |
| 15 | Tuppe knew himself to be the stuff of epics . |
| 16 | Distress smote Theda as she took in his condition and knew herself to be the cause of it . |
| 17 | If you knew him to be a criminal , you suspected him of being up to no good . |
| 18 | I was pleased when he asked me to do the test-flying programme for him and I had no qualms in agreeing , as I knew him to be a meticulous engineer . |
| 19 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
| 20 | Because it 's ridiculous , of course , ’ she retorted , yet knowing it to be a fact . |
| 21 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 22 | But he knew it to be a frequently found trait , for most of the Noble Lords of Tara had long since dispersed and the enchanted Beastblood , once guarded so jealously , had nearly died out . |
| 23 | If this were the case then a junction would only be more likely to be recalled if the subject had actually felt at risk even if they knew it to be a generally dangerous junction . |
| 24 | Moreover , they knew it to be a cloud . |
| 25 | Because she knows you to be a strong character . |