Example sentences of "think [pers pn] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Forty-five per cent of the first group ( i.e. 45 per cent of 50 per cent ) thought them to be a true measure of ability and a third saw them as useful indicators of attitude . |
| 2 | Ramsey thought this an injustice ; he decided that his bishop was vague and naïve in his theology , someone who took up new ideas with enthusiasm and with very little precision of thought ; and yet he saw that the bishop disliked controversy and was hurt by it , and thought him to be a friend and a man of prayer . |
| 3 | He knew that she thought him to be a stiff and unimaginative person . |
| 4 | ( 106 ) We thought it to be the right choice . |
| 5 | Perhaps the accidental resemblance of a video in its box to a book in its dust-jacket will lead a child to pick up a book by mistake , thinking it to be a video , and start reading . |