Example sentences of "believe [pron] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we genuinely believe everyone to be entitled to education , then we must reject the aristocratic distinction between an education fit only for workers and one fit for philosopher-kings ; but we Must equally reject the new assumption that only those who are receiving a scientific education are being ‘ properly ’ educated ; the rest , those who are studying arts , being relegated to the position of drones or parasites to be , at best , tolerated , and seen as ‘ enriching ’ themselves . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm surprised to learn that you still believe me to be in possession of my cherry , or however you 'd phrase it . |
| 3 | ‘ I suspect you believe me to be a corruptor of minors . |
| 4 | ‘ But I 'm not the fool you believe me to be either . |
| 5 | However , it is possible to concede that defendants should be judged on the facts as they believe them to be , and yet to argue in favour of an exception in rape cases . |
| 6 | Although Todorov advances no ‘ general hypothesis ’ about the articulation of literary themes , he does , as a structuralist , believe them to be finite and knowable : |
| 7 | Unfortunately , even this threat may be ineffective , if auditors are as constrained by their competitive environment as some believe them to be . |
| 8 | No , I believe them to be spies working for a rival power aware of my presence in London and suspicious of my intentions . |
| 9 | While the penalties for water pollution offences are in theory more severe than most field staff believe them to be , they remain frail in comparison with those available to sanction traditional crime . ’ |
| 10 | Project teams might resent policy decisions of senior managers because they believe them to be inappropriate to the problems of the organisation ; line managers might resent ‘ free- wheeling ’ ‘ undisciplined ’ members of project teams . |
| 11 | And I believe them to be the some of the nicest maps I 've ever seen . |
| 12 | One layer out from the core , made up of thoughts and feelings , we have our self-image — who we believe ourselves to be . |
| 13 | And Proust concludes from this that erm when we believe ourselves to be in love , and I quote , ‘ the bonds between us and the other person exist in our minds only . ’ |
| 14 | Idleness is feared there with good reason , and also to an obsessive degree , for , as has been observed , if men believe something to be true , it is true in its consequences . |
| 15 | Of course , it is my belief about what is right or what is wrong ; if I believe something to be right , I am prepared to do it , whilst if I believe it to be wrong I am not . |
| 16 | If people believe something to be true , then its consequences are the same , whether or not it is actually true . |
| 17 | Key ways in which they have worked to lower costs are in reducing the prescribing rate ( which is often high in poorer areas ) ; increasing generic prescribing by informing people of the savings , addressing concerns , and , in the west midlands , offering laboratory analysis if patients believe there to be a difference in symptom control ; and providing draft formularies and guidance on their management . |
| 18 | Thirdly , I shall look at those Christian feminists who believe there to be no real gap , so that the problem is thereby solved . |
| 19 | Their understanding of social action is a ‘ realist ’ one , in so far as they believe there to be general , deep-lying mechanisms affecting human conduct which are triggered in different ways by contingent social circumstances . |
| 20 | Reso 's widow Patricia , who went to the court , said of Seale : ‘ I believe him to be an evil person , a sick person . |
| 21 | Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful . |
| 22 | We believe him to be a saint , do n't we , sisters ? " |
| 23 | Take the examples of these verbs suggested by Bolinger : ( 105 ) I believe him to be the man . |
| 24 | Working Paper 2 states : ‘ … even where a service is regarded as one which must be provided locally , it does not follow that every patient must have that treatment locally , it does not follow that every patient must have that treatment locally , if the patient and the GP or DHA as purchaser believe it to be better for them to be treated elsewhere ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ The People ’ , endearingly , believe it to be true . |
| 26 | If this hypothesis is correct — as more and more biologists believe it to be — then it illustrates that symbiosis , co-operation between organisms , is a crucial evolutionary step in nature ; for without it , organisms as complex as plants , animals , and fungi simply would not exist . |
| 27 | But I also believe it to be true . |
| 28 | From this mockery they are unable to set free the immortal soul , even after it has attained wisdom , and believe it to be proceeding unceasingly to false blessedness and returning unceasingly to true misery … . |
| 29 | That spiritual dimension I believe to be of pivotal importance ; indeed I believe it to be the soul of the Green Movement today . |
| 30 | Even though this kind of action may cost a lot , I believe it to be money well and necessarily spent because the health of our economy and the health of our environment are totally dependent upon each other … . |