Example sentences of "know [pers pn] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the many conversations I had with Ronnie that year , I never heard Ronnie deny it ; nor did I ever know him to be disloyal . |
| 2 | And not a murderer , whatever else you may know him to be . |
| 3 | An obvious instance would be the contrast between the suggestion that although we understand the proposition that God exists , we could have no evidence that it is true , and the suggestion that the proposition is incomprehensible to us , and hence a fortiori we can neither know it to be true nor be justified in believing it . |
| 4 | He may admit ( unwisely again ) that in using that proposition as a premise he is implicitly claiming to know it to be true . |
| 5 | We perceive things as we know them to be , not necessarily as they are . |
| 6 | They are given in alphabetical order , and from my own experience I know them to be absolutely reliable . |
| 7 | Some of the courses I know , lecturers go drinking with the students and everything , but they 're all older , suits and ties and things , there 's nothing wrong with that , you just know them to be a lecturer and get on with the work rather than thinking , ‘ we had a nice drink last night , did n't we ? ’ |
| 8 | I know them to be human creatures made in God 's image too , the womenfolk most lovely and most temperate ( for the most part ) , and I would not abet the evil Spaniard in his slanders . |
| 9 | One of the hardest things for women to bear is the way men reject tears as silly and irrelevant , when they know them to be important and valuable . |
| 10 | ‘ I know you to be a compassionate man , ’ the queen-dowager told him . |
| 11 | And I know you to be beautiful and to be most worthy to be my wife . |
| 12 | ‘ I know you to be right , ’ said Lydia in her reflective pedantic way , ‘ but I have not your courage . |
| 13 | ‘ I bring you because I know you to be one of us . ’ |
| 14 | However , whatever I know you to be , and whatever you 've done , I could n't let a woman spend the night out there alone . ’ |
| 15 | Maybe he seeks a more thrustful mien so that when he goes to his nasty little hutch in the City and glares at his neurotically blinking little screen and barks into his cellular telephone for another tranche of lead futures or whatever , he comes over as just a trifle more macho than we all know him to be . |
| 16 | However Christ is understood , as people take him up into their culture , or make of him what they will , they know him to be male . |
| 17 | ‘ I know him to be a child with a warm heart , ’ said Rose . |
| 18 | The constructivist thesis , it is argued , is not relevant because mental representations have not been defined away and replaced by talk of actions : we still have to say how mental life as we know it to be , with the representational character that we naturally give to it , relates to neuronal life . |
| 19 | No matter how much writers protest , non-writers seem to like the idea that writing is easy , not the arduous manual , emotional and intellectual labour writers know it to be . |
| 20 | … And at times in retrospect you wish you had taken a certain stat , because it turns out that the whole thing has boiled up , completely beyond what you know it to be , but it 's become political and the authority is being attacked and the chiefs ca n't defend it and say , ‘ OK . |
| 21 | Yet even as I think it , I know it to be a ridiculous thought . |
| 22 | Too many people believe football is nothing more than a game , but you and I know it to be so much more . |
| 23 | The latter is the usual pattern and I only know it to be his as the items came from the family . |
| 24 | We already know it to be IR active because there is a dipole change during the vibration . |
| 25 | We 've already reviewed the SoundBlaster Pro — indeed most of us at Practical PC have one in our machines — and know it to be more or less the industry standard for PC sound . |
| 26 | I do not want to dwell on it ; we know it to be true . |
| 27 | For no-one can believe anything unless they previously know it to be believable . |
| 28 | If that is the case that each of the political parties , as I assume is the case for er the Conservative party , I know it to be the case of the Labour party I assume the same is true for the Liberal Democrats and other parties represented in this house , that they undertake the very considerable organisational er er process of selecting candidates only to find a few weeks before June the ninth , that as a result of the difficulties that I 've described as far as the French government attitude towards these elections is concerned , that er in fact we have to revert to the existing arrangements and that we can not have these new er boundaries in place . |
| 29 | He regretted that Plato had not broken with the gods of the old cults and myths even though he had evidently known them to be false . |
| 30 | ‘ Have you ever known me to be anything else ? ’ |