Example sentences of "him to [be] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other part is Jackie , to whom going round that tight course as fast as Elf 's insurance would allow him to is a mere nothing . |
| 2 | One of the most beautiful of these represents a thirsty man , whose desire for water is represented in the most lively manner as he kneels on the ground to drink from a spring , with such wonderful reality that one might imagine him to be a real person . |
| 3 | The Ethiopian book , published in Britain in 1983 , showed him to be a writer interested in ‘ autocrats ’ — in absolute power and in the transformation of that power into its indistinguishable opposite . |
| 4 | His relationship with the kids is one between equals , but they also seem to expect him to be a wise man , and this is what he sometimes expects of himself . |
| 5 | Ramsey thought this an injustice ; he decided that his bishop was vague and naïve in his theology , someone who took up new ideas with enthusiasm and with very little precision of thought ; and yet he saw that the bishop disliked controversy and was hurt by it , and thought him to be a friend and a man of prayer . |
| 6 | Imagining him to be a reporter , Lionel said to him brusquely , ‘ I have nothing to say to you . ’ |
| 7 | Mountbatten had wanted him to be a leader of men . |
| 8 | I did n't really teach him to be a mime artiste but to be more of himself , physically , on the outside . |
| 9 | The best she could manage was to imagine him to be a person who had known Ewan well . |
| 10 | One can only admire his open-mindedness in allowing what would at first seem to him to be a reactionary step . |
| 11 | The Tooth Fairy and Other Stories , by John Miles shows him to be a photographer with an eye for the bizarre ( until 21 Feb ) |
| 12 | manager of a City assurance office and the narrator of ‘ Hunted Down ’ , who helps Meltham to entrap Julius Slinkton after discovering him to be a murderer . |
| 13 | In a feature interview with Percy Grainger next day I found him to be a charming and modest man , and was glad to write in glowing terms of his keyboard mastery , his repertoire , and his travels . |
| 14 | If you knew him to be a criminal , you suspected him of being up to no good . |
| 15 | Many more have claimed him to be a genius of the hidden writings of the past ; an unsurpassed esoteric ; an extraordinary magician who deliberately mixed up his mysterious verses to hide them from weaklings and meddlers . |
| 16 | Indeed , it was in that elite Division that David 's tireless workrate , intelligent and selfless running and accurate distribution proved him to be a footballer of high calibre . |
| 17 | The Dutch look upon him to be a brave officer . |
| 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 | Well , we hardly expect him to be a successful , happily married bank manager with four lovely kids just coming up to GCE or whatever they call it now . |
| 20 | Peter Conrad 's previous books of critiism ismand autobiography have shown him to be a master of a certain style of brilliant , allusive , penetrating prose . |
| 21 | For my own part , I should not , judging by his face , have guessed him to be a poet . |
| 22 | It has been suggested that the real reason Judas betrayed Jesus was that he wanted him to be a popular Messiah who would drive out the Romans . |
| 23 | AI considers him to be a prisoner of conscience held solely for his non-violent opposition to the government of the former Yemen Arab Republic . |
| 24 | AI considers him to be a prisoner of conscience . |
| 25 | Joe 's reply was curt and Mr Beecham looked at this young man who , when he had last seen him just a few months ago , had appeared to him to be a schoolboy , immature for his age : but sitting before him now was a young man with no sign of immaturity on his countenance , for he seemed to have aged overnight , as it were . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) In the epistemic sense of ‘ appears ’ it makes no sense to say that the sea appears to be blue to someone but he does not know it , or that line AB appears to him to be shorter than line BC but he does not know it , or that the young lady/old woman figure appears to him to be a drawing of a young lady but he does not know it . |
| 27 | For Forget , who had demonstrated such courage under pressure , ti was a match which , according to Borotra , had ‘ shown him to be a really great player ’ . |
| 28 | Lam 's stylistic passage through Primitivism , Cubism , and Surrealism show him to be a man of his times . |
| 29 | Richard was engaged on what must often have appeared to him to be a bewildering balancing act . |
| 30 | Gentle begged him to be a little more lenient , to which Klein said he 'd call Gentle 's studio in two days ' time , and if he received no answer would assume their deal was no longer valid . |