Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] this to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been claimed that a third brother settled in America and that one of his descendants founded the internationally known Piper Aircraft Corporation but research has shown this to be false . |
| 2 | George has shown this to be a satisfactory option , reporting a five year survival of 80% , but this has never been compared in a randomised controlled trial with a treatment regimen . |
| 3 | Marslen-Wilson ( 1978 ) has shown this to be true . |
| 4 | Moreover , the International Labour Office has found this to be an international trend ( Townsend , 1981 ) . |
| 5 | Now the government has declared this to be the Year of Food . |
| 6 | She was herself , biologically , a peasant , but was rarely made to feel this to be an eccentricity as she now felt . |
| 7 | In other words , Offa may never have wished this to be anything other than a wholly Mercian ceremony . |
| 8 | Ivy must have seen this to be right . |
| 9 | The point is that the experts were convinced Leakey was wrong when they could not possibly have known this to be the case In his rollicking ‘ Steady-state cosmology revisited ’ , Sir Fred Hoyle recounts what occurred when a paper submitted by his fellow astrophysicist Sir Hermann Bondi was set before that august body , the Royal Astronomical Society . |
| 10 | They do not propose to enter into work in school which makes achievement in competitive examinations possible , having judged this to be highly undesirable . |
| 11 | She had intended this to be no more than a comradely rebuke . |
| 12 | Nesting nearby in holes in the boulder were a colony of puffins , and I probably imagined that these Icelandic birds looked larger than those nesting in Shetland , because I knew that studies had shown this to be the case . |
| 13 | He says they 've proved this to be wrong . |
| 14 | By the 14th Century the great revolution of the fulling mill had caused this to be forbidden . |
| 15 | I am only too aware that the issue of home taping is very much a hot potato ; any number of recent magazine articles and letters have shown this to be true . |
| 16 | Special needs post-holders have in this way been able to develop their consultation skills with teachers , while educational psychologists who have begun to extend their remit in this way have found this to be a realistic way of meeting the supporters ' own need for ongoing support . |