Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a church do we put ourselves with Jesus on the side of people in need or do we allow ourselves to be paralysed by fear or the temptations of wealth and forget what we would rather not know ? |
| 2 | The magazines of the time carried article after article laying down the law of correct and essential dress in which to be seen on ocean crossings and cruises . |
| 3 | The Jews ' special characteristics derive from the religion which was given to them by Moses , which stressed one God who was invisible and would not allow images of Himself to be made for worship . |
| 4 | " And directly after this , at the beginning of Chapter 17 , there is another abrupt change of tone : [ 7 ] Captain Cuttle , in the exercise of that surprising talent for deep-laid and unfathomable scheming , with which ( as is not unusual in men of transparent simplicity ) he sincerely believed himself to be endowed by nature , had gone to Mr Dombey 's house on the eventful Sunday , winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity , and had presented himself in the full lustre of the ankle-jacks before the eyes of Towlinson ( I ) . |
| 5 | In early 1942 , for example , he allowed himself to be photographed with Madame de Gaulle in a domestic " off-duty " setting . |
| 6 | But the mistake that Holberg made was to allow himself to be held in thrall by the world of appearances . |
| 7 | At his most impressionable , Nicholas allowed himself to be talked into publicity stunts that horribly backfired . |
| 8 | He allowed himself to be filmed on television absent-mindedly pouring a bottle of Petrus into the stew . |
| 9 | If necessary , arrangements can usually be made for you to be seen at home . |
| 10 | He prays that ‘ according to the riches of his glory , the Father may grant you to be strengthened with might through his Spirit in the inner man ’ . |
| 11 | Property rights , in this case the legal right for you to be compensated for infringement of your garden and light , enter in two distinct ways . |
| 12 | It may also provide the opportunity for you to be seconded to industry to receive additional in-service training , perhaps on an industrial management course . |
| 13 | If this proposition were to be of interest I would arrange for you to be put in contact with my client , who will reveal his identity at the appropriate stage . |
| 14 | BP ran into some rough weather in 1992 but the company is too strong and resilient to allow itself to be blown off course by the recent squalls . |
| 15 | access to the archiving system itself to be limited by password or other means of authentication to the system manager |
| 16 | Marxism and Existentialism have exercised the greatest influence upon theology , while in addition the general question of how far theology should permit itself to be influenced by philosophy has also been given a good deal of attention . |
| 17 | It has to succeed , not in fair competition , but in the face of ignorance and misunderstanding : ignorance , because whereas professional knowledge and informed advice on the incorporation and conduct of conventionally organised companies are generally available , whereas education and training relating to them are commonplace , this is not true for co-operatives ; misunderstanding , because the industrial co-operative sector is still often regarded as characterised by the three well-known rescue cases … and hence as supposing itself to be exempted from test by commercial criteria and the rigours of the market economy . |
| 18 | It can mean that theory must be destabilised — ‘ destabilising ’ as something to be done to theory . |
| 19 | in effect , using BSL in further and higher education is still seen by many as part of the ‘ handicap of deafness ’ and something to be overcome in education rather than used . |
| 20 | Rather than something to be relegated to nothingness , like we find today . |
| 21 | For decades , the ‘ change of life ’ was something to be suffered in silence , something to do with ‘ female hormones ’ , always a bother at the best of times , and something gynaecological . |
| 22 | The front line was thus immortalised , firmly affixed to their own existence , a part of them , something to be recalled with nostalgia , something to be understood and wondered at . |
| 23 | In addition , many local people , regarding the environment as something to be exploited in order to make a living whether as a farmer or as a fisherman , had little sympathy for the idea of landscape protection or conservation . |
| 24 | Compliance or non-compliance is simply something to be taken into account by the court in determining whether an offence under section 20 has been committed . |
| 25 | Freedom was now only something to be glimpsed through steel . |
| 26 | And make no mistake , the rum ration is very important to a matelot ; not only to be sipped or gulped , but something to be used for bargaining or the repayment of a favour , or even bottled and taken home on leave . |
| 27 | While different kinds of discrimination are not to be conflated , I believe there is something to be learned from homophobia about other kinds . |
| 28 | Honour , the esteem of both peer group and others , was something to be won in war . |
| 29 | Then there are incidents in which some spectators vie with each other to be the one to be heard on TV to shout ‘ you the man ’ just as the player connects with his shot — sometimes interrupting his downswing . |
| 30 | A number of papers are in preparation , including one to be presented by invitation of the American Statistical Association . |