Example sentences of "considered they to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For Americans she had scant respect and considered them to be nouveau riche upstarts , not good enough to hold a candle to the real thing . |
| 2 | Accounting firms were also retained , but banks often considered them to be ‘ piggy-backing ’ on their deal , only providing some modest technical due diligence type advice . |
| 3 | The Pharisees and Scribes would not eat with the ordinary people as they considered them to be irreligious . |
| 4 | They would have nothing to do with recognised ‘ sinners ’ such as tax-collectors because they considered them to be immoral . |
| 5 | Twenty-three per cent of them thought that ‘ they could possibly be of some use with certain reservations ’ and 27 per cent of them considered them to be of no use at all . |
| 6 | While a few felt that the social workers , were helpful and supportive an equal number considered them to be patronizing and authoritarian . |
| 7 | He had encountered most of these in the early days of political socialism in this country and considered them to be a thoroughly unreliable lot . |
| 8 | And we were called into this long room at the erm it was at House at and er there was all these well I considered them to be old men , they could n't have been so old you see but I was only a boy . |
| 9 | The genera Ophialcaea and Ophiotreta were treated as subgenera of Ophiacantha by Mortensen ( 1936 ) and Fell ( 1960 ) , but H. L. Clark ( 1915 ) and Koehler ( 1922 , 1931 ) considered them to be of generic rank , a treatment followed here pending future study on the generic boundaries in this subfamily . |
| 10 | Dr Johnson considered them to be just about worth the guinea a week ( £l.05 ) they generally earned . |
| 11 | On the subject of the Lions , Finlay Calder wondered whether it might prove a mistake taking both Wade Dooley and Peter Winterbottom to New Zealand as he considered them to be past their best . |