Example sentences of "considered [pn reflx] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither Marx nor Engels considered himself to be historian or anthropologist . |
| 2 | He always considered himself to be Reformed and praised the Westminster Assembly , that there was ‘ never a synod of more excellent divines than this and the Synod of Dort ’ . |
| 3 | Dunlop refused and for the first time revealed that he considered himself to be the sole owner of the horse . |
| 4 | He considered himself to be superior : |
| 5 | He considered himself to be his own master , and deference to this aristocratic head of Russian Intelligence , Count Zhinsky , did not come easily to him . |
| 6 | Michael , I suspect , considered himself to be on the losing side and probably wished he was on the winning side . |
| 7 | " The Lord preserveth the simple , " came the Padre 's voice , quite aptly , it seemed to the Collector for he considered himself to be a simple man . |
| 8 | There was no need in O'Reilly v. Mackman to choose between these approaches , but it seems clear that Lord Diplock considered himself to be stating a general rule with exceptions . |
| 9 | Colebrooke , much lampooned in the press , was a rather pompous , self-important man who considered himself to be the second most influential politician in England . |
| 10 | As it was , others advised him against precipitating the issue , and I had a late word with him shortly before his evening meeting with the Conservative Political Centre ; but by then it was too late for he considered himself to be committed to his friends . |
| 11 | As Benn 's frustration indicates , the ‘ public good ’ which the BBC considered itself to be serving was not necessarily the same as that defined by government . |
| 12 | The case presented by the wife , with which the court considered itself to be dealing , was one based on agency . |
| 13 | Lucille Castineau had lived all her twenty-seven years in the Norman countryside and , though she came from a noble family , she proudly considered herself to be a farm woman . |
| 14 | In any event , and no matter what reforms were contemplated , the issue that was posed by Marius Moutet , pre-war Minister for the Colonies in the Popular Front and shortly to become Minister for Overseas France , was whether or not France really considered herself to be a nation of 100 m. and whether or not she was to be a great power . |
| 15 | The Donatists considered themselves to be the church of the martyrs , and kept alive the old posture of the persecuted church in the new , much altered , times after Constantine . |
| 16 | It is evident from the comments made by the nouveaux romanciers that they considered themselves to be developing and integrating the formal experiments of writers drawn from a carefully selected modernist canon , suggesting that they judged modernism to have been incomplete in the French novel before their arrival . |
| 17 | Furthermore , the Fairley family considered themselves to be people of consequence and were careful of how the world perceived them . |
| 18 | But since good teachers , like the project staff at Ife , put children first , they considered themselves to be in duty bound to devise the best possible workable curriculum for the school . |
| 19 | Some lords considered themselves to be above command — and he glared round the company . |
| 20 | The Pharisees considered themselves to be self-sufficient . |
| 21 | The infant was classified as Maori if either the mother or the father considered themselves to be Maori . |
| 22 | In the first case , fieldworkers may have wished to retain certain functions , such as working directly with children and young people , as their prerogative , because they considered themselves to be better trained to undertake these tasks , albeit with limited time at their disposal and with , in some instances , limited skills . |
| 23 | The schools chosen for investigation by the Cambridge project team considered themselves to be ‘ responsive ’ to the interest and concerns of local audiences . |
| 24 | In another study , women who had androstenol applied to their upper lips each day considered themselves to be more submissive than those without it . |
| 25 | According to the 1984 LFS rather over 6 per cent of the labour force considered themselves to be working on a temporary basis . |
| 26 | Prior to 1979 , most local authorities were Conservative-controlled and they considered themselves to be local authorities , not Governments . |
| 27 | Thus , owners who were forced to sell their land to public authorities considered themselves to be very badly treated in comparison with those who were able to sell at the enhanced prices resulting in part from planning restrictions on other sites . |
| 28 | I was so superior that I considered myself to be virtually beyond criticism . |
| 29 | But I considered myself to be unattractive , and in becoming so thin as to render myself totally undesirable sexually , I was saying , ‘ I may be unattractive , but this is because I choose to be this way . ’ |