Example sentences of "them to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Making people look the way you want them to is an important part of the colonial process . |
| 2 | It was being said quite openly on the factory floor that the only place Clasper would lead them to was the end of the dole queue . |
| 3 | which caused them to be no better , it would seem , but I 'm only young now so maybe something will happen later . |
| 4 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |
| 5 | Dudek flicked over the pages , found them to be a little better , but still somewhat hum-drum . |
| 6 | The first three gospels contain no reference to Christ 's having made any such great discourses as fill chapters 13–16 of St John , and since it seems unlikely that the author of the Gospel took notes during the utterance of this sublime discourse , we have to assume them to be a literary creation . |
| 7 | I 'm an old-fashioned textual critic , not a biographer — I do n't go in for this sort of — it was n't profit — I 'll put them back next week — I wanted them to be a secret . |
| 8 | During the strike , the police found them to be a useful device with which to restrict the freedom of movement of pickets . |
| 9 | The crucifixion was considered by them to be a unique event not subject to repetition . |
| 10 | She could see Alison 's roses and felt them to be a rebuke . |
| 11 | My thighs and bum — I 'd definitely like them to be a lot smaller . |
| 12 | Conversely , it is thought that some employers will leap at the chance of employing enrolled nurses knowing or believing them to be a cheaper alternative in terms of pay . |
| 13 | You do n't start with 20-year-olds by asking them to be a service to the collective . |
| 14 | Blur tussle with ‘ Maggie May ’ and Suede , whose current B-sides show them to be a better band than the extremes of hype surrounding them might have encouraged you to believe , cover ‘ Brass In Pocket ’ . |
| 15 | Forty-five per cent of the first group ( i.e. 45 per cent of 50 per cent ) thought them to be a true measure of ability and a third saw them as useful indicators of attitude . |
| 16 | Eye witnesses on the ground had seen the aircraft on what appeared to them to be a perfectly normal approach when a large portion of structure separated in flight . |
| 17 | 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 ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ This action is brought by the mayor , aldermen , and citizens of the city of Manchester to recover damages from the defendant in respect of that which is alleged by them to be a libel on the corporation . |
| 19 | They came to that conclusion on the grounds that it appeared to them to be a tenable meaning of the words and in accordance with what they thought to be the policy of the Act of 1914 as to jurisdiction . |
| 20 | In some cases , important labour market actors are uncertain of them , and in the course of certain of our case studies [ see Chapter 7 ] we found them to be a source of confusion . |
| 21 | He had encountered most of these in the early days of political socialism in this country and considered them to be a thoroughly unreliable lot . |
| 22 | But it is unreasonable from this to extrapolate ‘ the school ’ as one of the cornerstones of society — for what are schools but institutions in which , in the name of knowledge , we ghettoize the young , and keep them from adult company , coop up the violent with the meek , those who like learning with those who do n't , and in general fit them for the modern world , which one quick glimpse of the television will show them to be a violent , murderous , greedy , vulgar and horrid place , in which people in a good mood throw custard pies at one another and in a bad mood chop each other to pieces ? |
| 23 | You would consider them to be a sign of weakness ! ’ |
| 24 | Margaret Thatcher had no tolerance for jokes of any kind , believing them to be a waste of time . |
| 25 | Perpetual FRNs were popular with banks during 1986 because the regulatory authorities permitted them to be a source of bank primary capital ; i.e. , they ranked pari passu with equity capital . |
| 26 | He said the wearing of poppies laudable and worthy in the outside world was considered provocative by republican prisoners who perceived them to be a loyalist symbol . |
| 27 | It focuses on systems , such as the family , considering them to be an entity , a whole , rather than merely the result of a number of contributions from independent parts or individuals . |
| 28 | In any case , the king crabs are unlikely to survive long , for the Chinese eat them and their eggs , believing them to be an aphrodisiac . |
| 29 | He is eager to cultivate such sales channels worldwide because he feels them to be an under-exploited source of revenue . |
| 30 | They believe that the student first needs to acquire a perception of the analogies involved in the patterns of the language , and to be drilled until a considerable body of material has been learned , since analysis of the language is considered by them to be an advanced study . |