Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] [noun prp] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found Siglo XX to be a ghost town . |
| 2 | Stendhal , on his return to his adopted city after an absence of two years , claimed La Scala to be the most important opera in the world , since which time no one has felt the need , or had the temerity , to fault his judgement . |
| 3 | Even Emmie , though she knew Mr Hellyer to be a thief and therefore in some ways unreliable , was still young enough to see him as grown-up and therefore entirely competent in an emergency . |
| 4 | Last week , such qualities enabled Paul Gascoigne to be the hero in the duel of the eternal city . |
| 5 | They are essentially a form of nonsense verse for which Eliot had great affection and understanding ; he had lectured on the subject while in America in 1933 , and he once told Stravinsky that he considered Edward Lear to be a great poet and compared him with Mallarmé . |
| 6 | The message got round and it got round Haddon Hall like wildfire that I wanted David Bowie to be a cabaret star . |