Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This situation would be the phenomenalist 's ideal ; all such non-observation statements would be strongly verifiable , and sceptical doubts about them shown to be impossible . |
| 2 | For example , after the History of Sexuality much has been made of Foucault 's analysis of power as a form of totalizing paranoia ; but the analyses in that book , of , for example , the shift from the Catholic confession box to the confessional psychoanalytic couch , are both culturally and historically specific , and Foucault 's remarks about them need to be put in the same perspective . |
| 3 | I mean it 's good for them learning to be amongst a lot of children and they soon learn that erm they ca n't have their way . |
| 4 | Surely it is better for them to strive to be literate than to engage themselves in the fruitless task of emulating the speech of the hearing . |
| 5 | Is n't it because women are by nature inferior , and know it , so usually there is no need for them to crave to be treated as inferior ? |
| 6 | These have proved difficult if not impossible to pin down in any precise terms and demand for them appears to be similarly volatile … . |
| 7 | The space between them seemed to be almost solid , you could see it had edges . |
| 8 | They sat for a minute in silence as if what had passed between them needed to be assimilated in peace . |
| 9 | Sidgwick , for example , argued thus that the typical duties recognized by common sense could not be self evident and necessary since the clashes between them needed to be resolved by appeal to a more fundamental principle , that of the principle of utility , and that it was therefore this alone which possessed such a status . |
| 10 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 11 | Most of them looked to be students , but in a month we never managed a longer conversation than ‘ Hi ! |
| 12 | They agreed to support policies most of them knew to be damaging , misguided and inhuman . |
| 13 | Parts of Oxford Street and nearby Maddox Street were cordoned off and Charing Cross station cleared following warnings of bombs , one of them said to be in Oxford Street 's Virgin Megastore . |
| 14 | With these stations , extravagance was expressed in scale rather than in exuberance of architecture , although many of them continued to be richly detailed . |
| 15 | Gorbachev warned Israel that he would " give thought " to suspending exit visas for Soviet Jews if some of them continued to be settled on the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip . |
| 16 | Would n't you agree that in normal day to day language if we see a line of cars going down a road and one of them happens to be a Rolls Royce we would say , that 's the quality car ? |
| 17 | Most of them had to be introduced to one another by the referee yet they still stuffed four past us . |
| 18 | 6 of them had to be transferred from the Aylesbury Young Offenders Institution when Judge Stephen Tumim 's prison inspection team found it was not secure enough to take them . |
| 19 | As they were more frequently summoned , so numbers of them came to be more frequently re-elected and brought increasing continuity from one assembly to the next . |
| 20 | And the ultimate development in disposable packaging was the TV dinner , the domestic version of the airline dinner , bought complete with disposable tray , containers , cups and utensils , all of them made to be thrown away . |
| 21 | How much notice the authorities will take of them remains to be seen . |
| 22 | The patients had all been washed and set up in their chairs and most of them seemed to be almost asleep . |
| 23 | In these circumstances , a determined mother could be free to groom herself , hold office in this or that community activity , or find a job , in order to fulfil herself ; though none of them seemed to be able to explain why acting as a bank teller or the secretary of a charity , for example , was more fulfilling than looking after their own children . |
| 24 | As they watched , a tall tree in front of them seemed to be burning with a white flame . |
| 25 | The only things that might have been classed as narrative were the poems , and they did n't seem to have anything to do with each other , apart from the fact a lot of them seemed to be vaguely about Death , or Love . |
| 26 | All of them seemed to be on rather intimate terms with the proprietress , who was a very handsome , dark-haired woman , tall and well-built , with penetrating eyes . |
| 27 | Most of them seemed to be the kind that took the prepaid cards that he never had , but there were a couple of pay booths at the end of the row and he made for those . |
| 28 | All of them seemed to be toy shops . |
| 29 | Half the board raised their own flagons in answer — most of them seemed to be Hearthwares — and they answered him thunderously , Ratagan loudest of all . |
| 30 | Neither of them seemed to be emergencies , as the callers had n't asked for immediate aid . |