Example sentences of "[prep] letting [pron] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is very simple : the artist can not allow himself the luxury of letting himself be manipulated passively by our culture . |
| 2 | But he had no intention of letting himself be intimidated . |
| 3 | However well-meaning Luke Hunter might be , she had no intention of letting herself be steamrollered by him — in business or anything else . |
| 4 | Fixing aluminium foil behind radiators , dull side against the wall , helps to reflect heat outwards , instead of letting it be absorbed by the wall . |
| 5 | That means , year on year , sustaining the commitment instead of letting it be eroded . ’ |
| 6 | Even with a powerful cast , including Natasha Richardson and Elizabeth McGovern , the women simply look stupid for letting themselves be herded into indoctrination camps . |
| 7 | I find clip-ons perfectly acceptable and , as braces are now a fashionable item , do n't worry about letting them be seen . |
| 8 | Too late , those who should have been Frederick 's allies realised their mistake in letting him be crushed . |
| 9 | It would be to let one maxim remind him of the treacherous limits of his information and the other of unconsidered consequences of delay , and try to fill both gaps in his awareness before letting himself be moved in one direction or the other . |
| 10 | The other perceives , I merely imagine ; he suffers , I merely simulate his distress by letting myself be moved by what I imagine . |
| 11 | I made a bad mistake on my second lot of commercials — for Skol — by letting myself be persuaded by other people against my own instincts , so from then on I was very firm about what I wanted to do and what I was prepared to do , and it 's made my life easy . |
| 12 | For a terrible equation prevailed : that which would ultimately save the human race — the evolution of a higher consciousness — was , in its long and vulnerable gestation , exactly what could so easily destroy humanity by letting it be corrupted , polluted , warped and ruined . |
| 13 | If you let your debtors get away with not paying or late paying you are only hurting your own image by letting it be known that your credit control is open to abuse and that you can be financially pushed around . |
| 14 | A second note of warning was issued a month later , when Andrew Gardner , a member of the Montrose interest , advised that Smith would meet with much opposition from the heritors , and indeed one of the heritors attempted to bargain with the duke by letting it be known that his attitude towards Mr. Smith might change if the Duke of Montrose allowed the laird to purchase the superiority of some of his lands . |