Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [prep] be an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Geoffrey Fisher went from Repton to be Bishop of Chester and invited him to be an examining chaplain ; which he accepted — it would mean two or three visits a year — and was surprised to find how friendly Fisher was when they were not in the relation of boy and headmaster . |
| 2 | They would not be there unless they shared the European ideal and believed themselves to be an integral part of the process of European unity . |
| 3 | Reagan , on the other hand , soon showed himself to be an effective campaigner who projected an attractive and reassuring image on television . |
| 4 | Her posthumously published study of their factual background , A Thousand Lives : the English Revolutionary Movement 1660–1685 ( 1954 ) , showed her to be an able popularizer of history . |
| 5 | Yet fifty years after Ramsey 's book a good judge of religious thought and literature during the twentieth century declared it to be an enduring masterpiece , which pointed forward to the road which Anglicans and not only Anglicans would follow . |
| 6 | If he showed it to be an impossible concept , he continued to demonstrate that it remains a necessary one , and acknowledged that we must learn to live with that impossibility . |
| 7 | A quick glance through the nearest showed it to be an empty chamber built of oddly fitted blocks of Cyclopean size . |