Example sentences of "consider [pron] to [be] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , yeah , but they do n't exactly consider you to be the greatest thing since sliced bread , now do they ? ’ she opined . |
| 2 | Is the person likely to feel coerced , even although you may consider it to be the best course of action for the individual ? |
| 3 | They have been chosen for the posts in other parts of the country because their employers consider them to be the best people for these particular jobs . |
| 4 | Simmel 's work has been selected on the grounds that I consider it to be the most convincing analysis of modernity consistent with the concept of objectification as outlined here . |
| 5 | The journalists in question consider themselves to be the media equivalent of the praetorian guard . |
| 6 | It is clear from his critical writings that , to some extent , he considers himself to be the successor of Kafka and Camus : this influence emerges in his novels , Dans le labyrinthe ( 1959 ) — whose very title evokes Kafka and Borges — and his first work , Un Régicide ( 1949 ; published 1978 ) in which the atmosphere is very tangibly that of the absurd-cum-behaviourist novel ( see Smyth 1983 ) , even if in both cases the metaphysical is subjected to parody . |
| 7 | I think it 's a great tragedy that Wales considers itself to be the poor relation within the United Reform Church and the answer can only lie within Wales ! |
| 8 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |
| 9 | Colebrooke , much lampooned in the press , was a rather pompous , self-important man who considered himself to be the second most influential politician in England . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I considered him to be the most unemotional person I have ever known . |
| 12 | The Donatists considered themselves to be the church of the martyrs , and kept alive the old posture of the persecuted church in the new , much altered , times after Constantine . |