Example sentences of "[pn reflx] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In it we know ourselves to be rational agents detached from spontaneity , judging on objective grounds what will serve our ends . |
| 2 | However , we are equally guilty at times of thinking ourselves to be better at certain pursuits than we have cause to feel . |
| 3 | Not many of us consider ourselves to be good listeners . |
| 4 | It was easy , when we were predominantly discussing philosophy , to link farm animal welfare and protection of the environment , in so far as they are both concerned with what qualifies us to consider ourselves to be good people . |
| 5 | It is not that in desperate circumstances we discover ourselves to be natural egoists and throw off moral restraints , it is rather that morality no longer applies . |
| 6 | In other words , we have allowed ourselves to be brain-washed into avoiding any interpretation of the past that involves extreme and what might be termed " catastrophic " processes . |
| 7 | BAF spokesman Tony Ward described him as ‘ the best team manager Britain has had because he felt himself to be one of the athletes ’ , while Liz McColgan said he ‘ was n't just a friend through athletics , he was a personal friend as well ’ . |
| 8 | He 'd never exactly believed that his life was charmed youngest in a family of seven in Stoke Newington would have been a damned strange place to start out from if that had been the case — but he 'd never believed himself to be one of life 's victims either . |
| 9 | He had lain wakeful beside Anna in the bed that had not been quite wide enough for twenty years and felt himself to be all at once boiling with misery and quite immobilized by it . |
| 10 | ' I do n't think he would have trusted himself to be married , ’ the actor remembered for me . |
| 11 | Secure in his job , with a growing international reputation , and uxoriously contented with his comely Sophie , lie knew himself to be successful and suspected himself to be happy . |
| 12 | Here now is an Arab leader who has shown himself to be capable not only of standing up to the mightiest military force in the world , but also of retaliating . |
| 13 | Instead , he had proved himself to be capable of great human emotion . |
| 14 | He does not believe himself to be guilty of murder , and yet he now faces between and fifteen years ' imprisonment . |
| 15 | Martin allowed himself to be magnanimous . |
| 16 | Smiling at her father , who probably did not think so either if he would permit himself to be honest about it , she placidly allowed him to give her hand to Tristan who looked down at her very intently , his face noble and moved and marvellously beautiful in the jewelled light from the stained glass window . |
| 17 | Burger leaned forward quickly and , lowering his voice , said : ‘ Returning to our earlier subject , Garland half believed himself to be impotent he probably was , but he was obsessed by that damned girl he married and although she was good to look at , that was all — she was an immoral woman ! |
| 18 | You 've known for years he was devious , and he 'd never actually fallen over himself to be nice to you , had he ? |
| 19 | ‘ Sheisse , ’ he added explosively as if he had at last allowed himself to be convinced of something which he had wanted to believe for a long time . |
| 20 | Jenkins allowed himself to be convinced that ‘ some battle had to be fought ’ . |
| 21 | But Newton , known in the dressing room as ‘ Isaac ’ , still has to pinch himself to be sure he really has arrived in the big time . |
| 22 | Although Dustin is perfectly able to portray nastiness , he has never allowed himself to be other than sympathetic to audiences in whatever he has done . |
| 23 | If he had done so because he genuinely believed himself to be alone and was unaware that a mounted rider was behind a clump of trees nearby , though the horse as a result took fright , he might still plead that his action was not reckless . |
| 24 | By way of total contrast , I can point to Birchfield sprinter Phil Brown , who never really felt himself to be any different from other school children and admitted to having ‘ no identity with other blacks ’ . |
| 25 | He considered himself to be superior : |
| 26 | ‘ Dauntless is a paladin , ’ Cleo reminded her , ‘ and therefore believes himself to be pious and true . |
| 27 | He forced himself to be calm . |
| 28 | Rakovsky forced himself to be calm , to consider the wider implications . |
| 29 | He looked away , momentarily overcome by the strength of what he still felt for her , then forced himself to be insistent . |
| 30 | He feels himself to be privileged . |