Example sentences of "[noun] think [pers pn] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them were aware of their role and did n't seem to mind too much that their peers thought them to be crazy . |
| 2 | But he was far from the political revolutionary which many observers thought him to be and as adapt at cooling the passions of the men as he was at arousing them . |
| 3 | ( 180 ) … and seek to express ourselves as we are , and not as we would have our friend to think us to be . |
| 4 | The appointment of Valuev was not quite the retrograde step that some contemporaries thought it to be . |
| 5 | The grunt was expressive , and Patrick immediately knew what sort of friend the man thought him to be . |
| 6 | Other studies have also shown that many teachers express stereotyped and often contradictory generalizations about black pupils , with some teachers tending to regard Afro-Caribbean pupils as lazy and withdrawn while others thought them to be aggressive and disruptive ; a common stereotype of Asian pupils among teachers is that they are passive and industrious but they and their parents are over-ambitious ( Brittan , 1976 ; Giles , 1977 ; Verma , 1982 ; Lee and Wrench , 1983 ; Swann , 1985 ; Eggleston et al . , |