Example sentences of "[noun] [vb base] [pn reflx] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the very act of reading on into the tale from the Miller 's Prologue we as readers allow ourselves to be manipulated into supposing ourselves somehow different from the readership of " " every gentil wight " " that is offered a warning and an invitation to : We know ourselves to be more complex beings . |
| 2 | Popay and Jones ( 1990 ) , analysing General Household Survey data , found that lone parents report themselves to be in poorer health more than parents in couples ; and that more lone mothers report poorer health than lone fathers ( see also Hilary Graham 's chapter here ) . |
| 3 | The journalists in question consider themselves to be the media equivalent of the praetorian guard . |
| 4 | By the " permanence " of true-kin relationships in both models I refer to the fact that if two individuals consider themselves to be true kinsmen their kinship will persist in latent form even if they do not interact with one another at all for years on end . |
| 5 | In short lesbians and gay men are assumed to influence young people over their sexuality , whilst heterosexuals assume themselves to be neutral . |
| 6 | Palatine consider themselves to be good employers , though their attitudes and practices might be thought to be slightly old-fashioned and paternalistic in that there is no measure of staff performance or formal mechanisms or procedures for staff management . |
| 7 | Agricultural prosperity rested on secure tenures that made the substantial farmers feel themselves to be full proprietors . |
| 8 | The grey forms allow themselves to be read as clouds , through which stronger light is managing to penetrate . |
| 9 | The research aims to explore how , in the context of education reform , senior management teams operate in secondary schools where senior staff perceive themselves to be committed to teamwork as their core strategy for managing the school . |
| 10 | Interpersonal conflict occurs between two or more people when attitudes , motives , values , expectations or activities are incompatible and if those people perceive themselves to be in disagreement . |
| 11 | But at the same time the vast majority of the people find themselves to be a single nation and are conscious of resembling one another more than they resemble foreigners . |
| 12 | It is also necessary that no significant minorities feel themselves to be permanently excluded from power or influence ; that groups and individuals sense that they are roughly equal in their ability to influence the outcome of communal policy-making ; and that those outcomes embody what people recognize to be the general interests of society rather than merely a combination or balance of the interests of various particular and organized groups or specific interests . |
| 13 | This sceptic is a hard-nosed person who claims that most people allow themselves to be persuaded by what is really rather weak evidence , but that he needs more than that to convince him . |
| 14 | The ‘ opposition ’ governors imagine themselves to be more important than they really are ; they have state , not federal , responsibilities ; their comments on federal matters should therefore not be regarded as of primary importance ; and , if they were reported fully at all times , this would be giving them a greater prominence in national affairs than they deserve . |
| 15 | For too many of its members consider themselves to be over-mighty . |
| 16 | Whites allow themselves to be psyched out . |
| 17 | In public , as in private , leaders need themselves to be worshippers . |
| 18 | Secondly , many people who take out credit arrangements would with good reason judge themselves to be relatively free from the risk of unemployment , or loss of earnings through illness — or at least would be ready and able to weather their financial difficulties in the event . |
| 19 | A survey I carried out in Brighton last summer indicated that unemployed men report themselves to be much less satisfied with their lives than do employed men . |
| 20 | Many Central Asian men consider themselves to be helpful around the house ; fewer women agree with them . |
| 21 | Public opinion surveys undertaken by the Prime Minister 's Office have , over the past two decades , shown that 80–90 per cent of Japanese consider themselves to be middle class . |
| 22 | Every Easter , a number of brave Filipino men allow themselves to be crucified — with real nails driven through their palms — in an attestation of their faith . |
| 23 | Pruger ( 1973 ) and Uttley ( 1980 ) argued that those who receive free services perceive themselves to be in debt in two senses : |
| 24 | Not all women consider themselves to be beautiful , or indeed wish to be so in conventional terms . |
| 25 | Statistics show that women allow themselves to be interrupted 50 per cent more often than men . |
| 26 | Ninety-three per cent of women believe themselves to be fairly or very successful at balancing all the roles demanded of them . |
| 27 | The Mizar-Alcor pair is of this type , though it must be added that a telescope shows Mizar itself to be made up of two rather unequal components . |
| 28 | With a Fender Princeton Reverb II as a test amp , the Signature model 's custom-wound Seymours prove themselves to be all smooth power , full and solid , with plenty of mid-range . |
| 29 | Both the Citadel and VMI consider themselves to be repositories of the southern chivalry and military prowess tested so harshly during the Civil War . |
| 30 | If I was right in supposing this to be the nub of his argument , then a prior question to be considered was : ‘ Do people in fact suppose themselves to be justified in using the word ‘ hot ’ of material things , like fires , because they think there is something in the fire like what is in them when they feel hot ? ’ |