Example sentences of "[pron] believe [pers pn] to [be] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reso 's widow Patricia , who went to the court , said of Seale : ‘ I believe him to be an evil person , a sick person . |
| 2 | I believe it to be a defective understanding of the Christian doctrine of creation and also as we shall see later , of the social dimension of the gospel . |
| 3 | This difference has , of course , been noted by Parsons ( 1954 ) and Rueschemeyer ( 1964 ) , and I believe it to be a very important one . |
| 4 | I believe it to be a natural duty , and if it be a natural duty it is a divine duty and how can a husband have power to discharge a divine duty ? |
| 5 | She was married to a man who believed her to be a traitor and a spy , a man who had stood beside her during a ceremony that bound them for life and had not once looked at her , nor touched her except to push a heavy , engraved ring on to her finger . |
| 6 | Unlike Aunt Kit , who believed it to be a barbaric rite , intolerable between reasonable men and women , Aunt Lilian , the headmistress , simply felt it her duty to point out that a career — any career — would be less easy once a girl was lumbered with a husband and children . |
| 7 | A small German dealer ( who has asked to remain anonymous ) , who often stopped by , was shown the picture by the proprietor who believed it to be an Italian or Flemish painting . |
| 8 | She would not return to you because you believed her to be a fallen woman , and nothing she could say would convince you otherwise . ’ |
| 9 | She believed it to be an " implied recognition of the PLO " and hoped that the next step would be an official meeting between the Israeli government and the PLO . |
| 10 | ‘ I suspect you believe me to be a corruptor of minors . |
| 11 | ‘ I ca n't marry a man who hates me — ’ her voice wobbled dangerously but she quickly brought it back under control ‘ — who believes me to be a traitor , without a single question or … or … ’ |
| 12 | Hansen ( 1980 ) makes it very clear that signed Danish is not the same as the Signed English that has developed in the USA , and she believes it to be a more flexible and efficient natural language form . |
| 13 | We believe him to be a saint , do n't we , sisters ? " |
| 14 | In the First Report of the Joint Liberal/SDP Commission for Constitutional Reform they announced that " electoral reform is an absolute priority for Britain , since we believe it to be a precondition both of national unity and of social and political progress " and ( they failed to add ) for their own sure breakthrough into Parliament itself . |
| 15 | It may well be that the reader is expecting the authors to indicate which of these theories best explains the development of the military-industrial complex and how ( assuming one believes it to be a problem ) it can bee eradicated . |
| 16 | On balance , they believe it to be a flexible enough approach to SSE to be applicable to different school circumstances , to be institutionally penetrating and to be capable of bringing about changes in schools using it . |