Example sentences of "know [pers pn] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the many conversations I had with Ronnie that year , I never heard Ronnie deny it ; nor did I ever know him to be disloyal . |
| 2 | An obvious instance would be the contrast between the suggestion that although we understand the proposition that God exists , we could have no evidence that it is true , and the suggestion that the proposition is incomprehensible to us , and hence a fortiori we can neither know it to be true nor be justified in believing it . |
| 3 | He may admit ( unwisely again ) that in using that proposition as a premise he is implicitly claiming to know it to be true . |
| 4 | I know them to be human creatures made in God 's image too , the womenfolk most lovely and most temperate ( for the most part ) , and I would not abet the evil Spaniard in his slanders . |
| 5 | One of the hardest things for women to bear is the way men reject tears as silly and irrelevant , when they know them to be important and valuable . |
| 6 | ‘ I know you to be right , ’ said Lydia in her reflective pedantic way , ‘ but I have not your courage . |
| 7 | And I know you to be beautiful and to be most worthy to be my wife . |
| 8 | However Christ is understood , as people take him up into their culture , or make of him what they will , they know him to be male . |
| 9 | For no-one can believe anything unless they previously know it to be believable . |
| 10 | I do not want to dwell on it ; we know it to be true . |
| 11 | He regretted that Plato had not broken with the gods of the old cults and myths even though he had evidently known them to be false . |
| 12 | WE MIGHT well be stirred by the sudden prospect of ruins , but once we knew them to be artificial our pleasure would evaporate , ’ wrote Kenneth Clark in his 1928 ‘ Gothic Revival ’ . |
| 13 | Never have I been so reviled , never , and I have taken it all , knowing him to be old and alone , and I … ’ |
| 14 | Only if he knew her to be ready to take that risk herself . |
| 15 | Alexander Vass , the shipping magnate who had recently taken over the local firm of G.W. Fashions after a bitter struggle with his rivals , she had expected to be a man well into middle age , in spite of the fact that she knew him to be single . |
| 16 | We knew him to be cowardly and because of that prone to bullying . |
| 17 | ‘ Those who followed his career in television , from the role of humble assistant film editor , up through the features department of Granada Television , through to his incredibly successful period as editor of the BBC magazine programme , Holiday '76 , knew him to be resourceful , keen , and deeply aware , not only of the problems of travel — his chosen speciality — but also-of such things as cuisine and interior design . ’ |
| 18 | So he headed off demands for a capital levy , knowing it to be unacceptable to his party , but Britain nevertheless paid for a higher proportion of the costs of the war from taxation than the other combatants ; he was also able to launch the Victory Loan of 1917 at an interest rate of only 5 per cent , having a surer sense of the patriotism of potential subscribers than did the Treasury . |
| 19 | I use the word beautiful knowing it to be inaccurate , yet not knowing how else to counteract the myth which has circulated for two centuries that Frankenstein 's monster 's face was a hideous conglomeration of second-hand features . |
| 20 | She tried to banish the thought that Zambia attracted trouble like a magnet , knowing it to be bad magick even to think that , but it was difficult not to . |
| 21 | We at first wanted to know each other , then knowing became friends , and every day as our knowledge increased , greater liking , deeper sympathy , and so on to love and feeling our love , knowing it to be true , pure , and everlasting ; then the desire for the perfect life of unity , and then of giving the world the benefit of our love by a little child . |
| 22 | He did not waste any energy in trying to break free of the mask , because he knew it to be pointless ; the Robemaker 's dark enchantments were seldom broken and he knew , as well , that there would be far worse torments ahead . |
| 23 | ( 104 ) … he did n't protest any more to say he loved her because he knew it to be untrue . |
| 24 | This use involves then a shift in the way knowing is conceived , from the static , resultative sort of knowledge evoked by I knew it to be untrue to an operative view of knowing as " directly experiencing " something . |
| 25 | But she 'd also seen other facets of his character , knew it to be deep and complex . |
| 26 | I 'd written that , and knew it to be true . |
| 27 | And although such an eventuality was beyond my imagination ( like trying to envisage infinity ) and utterly unacceptable to me , I still knew it to be true . |
| 28 | If he publishes untrue defamatory matter recklessly , without considering or caring whether it be true or not , he is in this , as in other branches of the law , treated as if he knew it to be false . |
| 29 | And it is not that she knows me to be bad or weak , or you either , but her conventional mind could not grasp that a thing so often impure , can be made absolutely and perfectly pure . |
| 30 | ( 100a ) Jane knows her to be intelligent . |