Example sentences of "he [vb past] to be [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He seemed to be a reassuring , comforting presence . |
| 32 | Blazons of heraldry tattooed the whole surface of his skin — he seemed to be a living shield armoured in righteousness . |
| 33 | He seemed to be a hippy in his blood . |
| 34 | He seemed to be a mixture of kindness and mockery , but it did n't matter very much . |
| 35 | Then suddenly a demoniacal light had entered his eyes and , since he seemed to be a man who would set about proving his own theories — in this case that it was inconceivable that she should be as innocent as she would appear — he took a couple of steps forward and reached for her . |
| 36 | Character A — or it might have been B again , for he seemed to be a right prune — had left late or had left early travelling at half the speed of the other . |
| 37 | If anything he seemed to be a bit more brightly yesterday overall were n't he ? |
| 38 | Tchaikovsky completed his Second Symphony in 1872 , at the age of 32 , when he seemed to be a happy man . |
| 39 | Brundle , who had risen briefly to third place during the tyre stops , was again completely out of luck and , like Johnny Herbert , was forced to retire by a collision in which he seemed to be the innocent party . |
| 40 | The only person in the room Dyson recognized was de Sousa , the producer , and he seemed to be the least important of them all . |
| 41 | Mr Ahmet Koc , aged 34 , told the General Medical Council 's professional conduct committee in London that after coming to England with the promise of employment last year , he had first been taken to the surgery of Dr Raymond Crockett for what he believed to be a medical examination for a job . |
| 42 | Mr Ahmet Koc , aged 34 , told the General Medical Council 's professional conduct committee in London that after coming to England with the promise of employment last year , he had first been taken to the surgery of Dr Raymond Crockett for what he believed to be a medical examination for a job . |
| 43 | On 20 June 1757 , Bartram acknowledged the February letter , together with six cedar cones , parts of the Dictionary and Figures , and confirmed that he had sent the Gale which he believed to be a new genus ; in this he was right , for L'Heritier later founded the genus Comptonia upon it . |
| 44 | He wished now he had not given her what he believed to be a very beautiful nightdress , creamy and ruffled : he had seen her look at Frederica 's books and had understood what he had half-sensed on the occasion of Frederica 's telegrams , her sense of loss . |
| 45 | Crookes ' lectures were illustrated by brilliant and striking experiments , especially with the cathode rays , which he believed to be a stream of particles ; but his physics and mathematics were not sufficient for him to produce quantitative work in this field . |
| 46 | In seeking to grasp this dynamic , and portray it , he had become enthused with the duende , the spirit unleashed by the flamenco — music and dance — which he believed to be the dynamic of true art and artistic expression : ‘ Repel the angel , kick out the muse , ’ , he was wont to exclaim ; arguing that artists must work ‘ from the gut , ’ with the conviction and intensity that the expression exudes ; allowing the life-force it releases to flow — torrentially , vividly , dramatically ; as in the flamenco itself . |
| 47 | The judge was satisfied he told what he believed to be the truth about his fear for his own safety and his shock and horror at the suffering and death of many men , some of them friends . |
| 48 | In the first place , far from eliminating the kind of inter-party competition he believed to be the fatally debilitating flaw of liberal democracy , it would add another participant to the contest . |
| 49 | He was an outspoken opponent of episcopal pretensions and a staunch upholder of what he believed to be the ancient rights of the monastery of Evesham . |
| 50 | The King was in no position to make such a decision and , in any case , Baldwin had already decided to meet Parliament when he met the King on 10 December , and so the King did not even have to persuade him to adopt what he believed to be the correct course . |
| 51 | What de Gaulle wanted was not just a ‘ Europe of states ’ , but one that would both be free from what he believed to be an intrusive and unacceptable American influence , and acknowledge some substantial element of French leadership . |
| 52 | Carson stood in the open quadrangle of tended plants and empty benches that he assumed to be the ‘ garden area in the middle ’ , and looked around . |
| 53 | According to Florence of Worcester , shortly after Æthelred died in April 1016 certain English churchmen and nobles elected Cnut king , came to him at Southampton , swore fid-elity and repudiated all Æthelred 's progeny ; in return , he vowed to be a good lord in matters both church and lay . |
| 54 | ‘ He claimed to be a expert on child abuse and once even offered his services to the Metropolitan Police — although we did not use him . |
| 55 | I discover that he claimed to be the revelation of God himself , the One who shows us what God is like . |
| 56 | When he was a child , an artist visited his school — he happened to be a musician — and left behind him an impression of a man very clearly committed to his chosen subject , and a feeling of passion for doing something you really want to do , that stayed with Paul for years until he finally decided to become a photographer . |
| 57 | He was famous simply because he happened to be the Prince of Wales ; and in his darker moments he felt that charities and organizations only wanted him because of his name . |
| 58 | He happened to be an unusually bright child and his mother had worked hard with him at home on spelling and reading . |
| 59 | Within a month of nationalisation , the Authority 's commercial manager had identified the more serious black spots in which tariffs for additional domestic kWh were below ¾d. — which he reckoned to be the level required to cover costs — and in the next few months prices were generally raised to this level as a ‘ first aid ’ measure , pending the development of a proper pricing policy . |
| 60 | Different tiers of government refused to co-operate ; Liverpool City Council disbanded inner-city working parties and incorporated Urban Programme issues into mainstream committees ; and the Secretary of State steadily distanced himself from what he perceived to be a largely meaningless ‘ talking shop ’ . |