Example sentences of "believe [pron] [prep] [be] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , I believe them to be spies working for a rival power aware of my presence in London and suspicious of my intentions . |
| 2 | Iago 's practice of inversion , by which he destroys Cassio while making him and others believe him to be Cassio 's friend , and by which he turns Desdemona 's purity into a black , viscous liquid that will catch his victims like birds in quicklime , has been fully established by Shakespeare and shown to be successful . |
| 3 | Even though this kind of action may cost a lot , I believe it to be money well and necessarily spent because the health of our economy and the health of our environment are totally dependent upon each other … . |
| 4 | I believe it to be Treasure Hunting magazine that has kept us all together and interested in the hobby , for all these years . |
| 5 | It was such an idea of modularity that Minsky intended in the quoted passage above , and he has suggested at various times that an organism would be more efficient , in terms of its ability to survive , if it had , as a separate module , a model of itself , which might of course be totally false as to the facts of the self 's reality : alcoholics who believe themselves to be merely social drinkers probably survive less well than those who believe themselves to be alcoholics . |
| 6 | But then , he reminded himself , so do those who believe themselves to be Napoleon , or Alexander , or God . |