Example sentences of "they [prep] [be] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In particular she disliked men , because her political analysis revealed them to be oppressors , and responsible as a sex for many of the worst aspects of our civilization ( war , the arms race , the stock exchange , rape , science , motor cars , additives to food , defoliants , hospital management of childbirth , competitions , multinational companies , cosmetics , pornography and vivisection ) .
2 We want them to be bailed.A consular official has made regular visits to the jail .
3 She wanted them to be musicians like her , and both he and Pam were learning instruments , he the violin and Pam the clarinet .
4 Well er I mean well things like communal ownership advocate them to be reforms
5 Earnest young poseurs deemed them to be art and the rest of us were bored silly .
6 I was very fond of these , and often wondered as a child why people did not consider them to be art .
7 When the disciples first heard from the women that Jesus had risen , they were incredulous : ‘ The story appeared to them to be nonsense , and they would not believe them . ’
8 Although no exact figures on EDS ' Italian revenues in 1992 were available , an EDS spokesman estimated them to be $20m , most of which are General Motors Corp-related .
9 As early as 1889 , Joseph Houghton Spencer plotted lines through churches , barrows , beacon sites and fragments of path , considering them to be remnants of a system of ancient signal stations .
10 Although tattered and torn , their clothing revealed them to be citizens of late twentieth century Earth .
11 He could not explain the bloodstains on his trousers , but he strongly suspected them to be rabbit 's blood .
12 Amnesty International considers them to be prisoners of conscience .
13 Amnesty International considers all of them to be prisoners of conscience and has repeatedly called on successive Greek Governments to release them and introduce alternative civilian service of non-punitive length .
14 But a few sidelong glances revealed them to be He-Shes .
15 ‘ We did n't cut them to be demos .
16 He wanted them to be servants as well .
17 And are you actually training girls to be girls , or are you training them to be people .
18 No , I believe them to be spies working for a rival power aware of my presence in London and suspicious of my intentions .
19 For example , on almond trees : ‘ I find them to be trees making a good hedge in a short time … look well round a little wilderness quarters planted with flowering shrubs in a small garden . ’
20 Although sequence analysis shows them to be lipocalins , molecular replacement using other lipocalin structures as search models failed to produce interpretable solutions ; we therefore used the multiple isomorphous replacement method and prepared three heavy-atom derivatives of MUP .
21 Although many people suspected them to be lovers , Adam still insisted on secrecy .
22 We suggest that it enables the parents to pay a compliment to close friends by inviting them to be godparents .
23 This was what war had done to innocent children , not only had it starved them of food but reduced them to be scavengers .
24 Were they to be friends ?
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