Example sentences of "is what i [verb] to [be] " in BNC.

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1 That is what I take to be the goal of all writing : to open up fenced-off plots , to water tracts of land that have dried out , to make accessible thoughts and feelings that readers never knew they had or thought they were not allowed to have .
2 All I can make out is what I take to be the outer port engine and that 's no help at all .
3 Epictetus said , ‘ This is what I wish to be engaged in when death finds me , so that I may be able to say to God , ‘ Have I in any respect transgressed Thy commands ?
4 ‘ Being a professional tennis player is what I want to be , ’ says Delgado .
5 I envisage and this is what I believe to be his last film Not a Hope in Hell early in 1960 .
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