Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [prep] be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stendhal , on his return to his adopted city after an absence of two years , claimed La Scala to be the most important opera in the world , since which time no one has felt the need , or had the temerity , to fault his judgement . |
| 2 | I found Siglo XX to be a ghost town . |
| 3 | Vilson Ahmeti , a " non-party intellectual " and outgoing Nutrition Minister , was asked on Dec. 10 by President Ramiz Alia to be the new Prime Minister , the first time this post was offered to a non-communist . |
| 4 | They are essentially a form of nonsense verse for which Eliot had great affection and understanding ; he had lectured on the subject while in America in 1933 , and he once told Stravinsky that he considered Edward Lear to be a great poet and compared him with Mallarmé . |
| 5 | That is , he considered the term God to be an appellation for Truth rather than the term Truth to be a description or attribute of God . |
| 6 | The message got round and it got round Haddon Hall like wildfire that I wanted David Bowie to be a cabaret star . |
| 7 | Their candidate is Peter Maughan , said by constituency agent David Faulkner to be a dead ringer for opera singer Luciano Pavarotti . |
| 8 | Rory had always found Fergus Urvill to be a little frightening . |
| 9 | Amnesty International considers Moncef Triki to be a prisoner of conscience . |
| 10 | AI considers Dorje Wangdu to be a prisoner of conscience . |
| 11 | Said by Marilyn Monroe to be the only thing she worse in bed . |
| 12 | Mother called her Aunt Mary , and thought she was a grand woman , She had children of her own , you see , and would try and persuade Aunt Bessie to be a little less strict with Mother . |
| 13 | Escoffier 's mousse de jambon , served on a great block of ice and melting like snow in the mouth , was recognised as a masterpiece ; and the bortsch , with cream stirred into the hot strong liquid , was declared by Colonel Newnham-Davis to be the best soup in the world . |
| 14 | She said that despite his little weaknesses ( here Carole thought of Grace 's bruised bum ) , she had always found Sir Ralph to be a proper gentleman . |
| 15 | I consider Glen Nevis to be the finest of Scottish glens . |
| 16 | Even Emmie , though she knew Mr Hellyer to be a thief and therefore in some ways unreliable , was still young enough to see him as grown-up and therefore entirely competent in an emergency . |
| 17 | Pronounced ‘ Polly Beeious ’ by Silas Wegg , and ‘ supposed by Mr Boffin to be a Roman Virgin' . |
| 18 | ‘ You have a desperate attempt by Prince Charles to be the boss . |
| 19 | You pretend to Mr Multhrop to be the Prince of Wale 's chef in order to gain access to the kitchens in order to poison the Prince . |
| 20 | Amnesty International considers Jampa Ngodrup to be a prisoner of conscience , detained and sentenced solely for the peaceful exercise of his right freely to receive and impart information . |
| 21 | She is gone now to the United States to be a specialist . |
| 22 | Rejecting " the right of the United States to be the policeman of the Caribbean " , the government claimed that it had offered a search by the Mexican authorities . |
| 23 | Introducing them , the Social Secretary said that he considered Mr and Mrs Preshous to be the true founders of the railway society . |
| 24 | The ecstasy of love being felt to rise through the body ‘ from the tips of the toes , to the tips of the fingers and from the heart to the head ’ was said by Anna Pavlova to be the essence of dance . |
| 25 | Varro studied the Celts and appeared to St Jerome to be a great authority on them ( P.L. 26.353 ) . |
| 26 | Considered by such critics as Lawrence Durrell and Seamus Heaney to be an extraordinary and major writer , Kenneth White , who also holds the Chair of 20th Century Poetry at the Sorbonne , visits the Festival from his Brittany home to celebrate publication of a new work — Pilgrim of the Void |
| 27 | St Bartholomew 's surgeon , pronounced by Jack Hopkins to be the ‘ best alive ’ . |
| 28 | AI considers Dr Ahmed Osman Siraj to be a prisoner of conscience , imprisoned on account of his non-violent opposition to the military government . |
| 29 | No doubt it had considerable influence upon the book but Peter Green , author of the definitive ‘ Kenneth Grahame — a Biography ’ , believes the Fowey River to be the true setting of the tale . |
| 30 | ‘ I want H Middlesbrough to be the No.1 club in the North-East . |