Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pron] to [be] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But apart from his rugby chores , McBride will be stretching his maternal instincts to the limit — He 's gearing himself to be a father for the first time in October . |
| 2 | But as he adapts to his new environment , Freddie 's proving himself to be a survivor capable of keeping everyone on the hop . |
| 3 | Believing me to be an intellectual , Beth had spent the previous night searching for suitable words to read before the laying-on of hands . |
| 4 | Margaret Thatcher had no tolerance for jokes of any kind , believing them to be a waste of time . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Along with other footballers , as I mentioned earlier , he felt a kind of mild predestination , believing himself to be a footballer even while at school ; though one wonders how many others who thought themselves predestined are now in factories or on milk rounds . |
| 7 | In recent years there have been feminist theologians who , far from believing there to be a gap to be bridged between past and present , have emphasized rather the continuity to be found in the situation of women . |
| 8 | Imagining him to be a reporter , Lionel said to him brusquely , ‘ I have nothing to say to you . ’ |
| 9 | The US stopped supporting Ho Chi Minh , believing him to be a puppet of the Chinese and instead gave their support to the French . |
| 10 | And , just over the hill at North Stainmore , at Dummah Hill , Great-Uncle Isaac Bayles was looking after Daddy , and training him to be a farmer . |
| 11 | As late as the summer of 1939 Sir Stafford Cripps , expelled from the Labour Party and hardly a natural Baldwin man , was urging him to be a brick in a wall of anti-appeasement national unity . |
| 12 | Once champion , he relinquished his name believing it to be a relic of slavery and announced his allegiance to the Nation of Islam , the segregationist sect popularly known as the ‘ Black Muslims ’ ( see Lincoln , 1961 ; Essien-Udom , 1962 ) . |
| 13 | Describing it as ‘ grandmotherly legislation ’ , Charles Hopwood figured largely in opposition to the Bill , believing it to be an encroachment on the rights of the freeborn Englishman . |
| 14 | God is n't calling me to be a cook , Your Excellency , he 's calling me to be a contemplative . |
| 15 | God is n't calling me to be a cook , Your Excellency , he 's calling me to be a contemplative . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Because I am expecting there to be a conspiracy of silence on this matter and I intend to make it as difficult as possible for the Milettis and their friends . |
| 18 | ‘ But Daddy is expecting it to be a sort of little God-speed thing . |
| 19 | You do n't start with 20-year-olds by asking them to be a service to the collective . |
| 20 | In 797 Alcuin wrote to Cenwulf praising his goodness and nobility and exhorting him to be a model Christian king . |
| 21 | The diagram corresponding to ( 36 ) is therefore : With the above analysis we can now account for the paradoxical fact that the verb perceive is found more frequently with the to infinitive than with the bare version : ( 55 ) No one could possibly enter his rooms without perceiving him to be a man of wealth . |
| 22 | But one day in 1977 a rather special envelope arrived , bearing an engraved card inviting me to be a guest of honour at the Women of the Year lunch at the Savoy Hotel in London . |
| 23 | It 's nice when you pick up a guitar , knowing it to be a company 's idea of what a first electric should be like , and finding that they 've got it just about right . |
| 24 | Because it 's ridiculous , of course , ’ she retorted , yet knowing it to be a fact . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Perhaps the accidental resemblance of a video in its box to a book in its dust-jacket will lead a child to pick up a book by mistake , thinking it to be a video , and start reading . |
| 27 | This would mean that Christ was declaring himself to be a thief , for in Zanaki land thieves generally make it a practice to knock on the door of a hut which they hope to burglarise , and if they hear any movement inside , they dash off into the dark . |
| 28 | It had a tarnished brass knocker showing a pixie cobbling shoes and declaring itself to be a present from Cornwall . |
| 29 | Pinned above Beth 's bed , next to the card proclaiming her to be a spiritualist , was a photograph of a male dancer from the newly formed Royal Ballet , and I came in one day soon after I arrived at Huntingdon to find a knot of giggling girls peering up at this dancer , who was poised on one foot , wearing an agonised expression and very tight tights . |
| 30 | There was no board outside proclaiming it to be a guest house , or hotel , so if it was n't , and they only took in private guests , or friends , she could hardly go dumping herself on them just on the recommendation of someone called Annie , could she ? |