Example sentences of "[pron] to be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When we allow ourselves to be dominated by the demands and opinions of others , our own self-esteem diminishes . |
| 32 | That now , when perhaps we need Him most of all , we allow ourselves to be weaned away from He who gave us life ? |
| 33 | Consequently , rather than allowing ourselves to be drawn into a metaphysical wild-goose chase we should concentrate instead on exploring the structural features of the minimal conceptual apparatus upon which any significant choice of ontological objects must depend . |
| 34 | Sometimes we appear to ourselves to be making sense , sometimes we seem to be obviously deranged , and sometimes our thoughts are driven by the vivid imagery of dreams . |
| 35 | I would like to say on behalf of us all how glad we are to welcome the Eberhardts , and how privileged we feel ourselves to be offered this recital . |
| 36 | If we imagine ourselves to be standing outside time , looking down upon the history of the Universe as if it were a relief map , we get a different perspective . |
| 37 | Material gain We allow ourselves to be persuaded when we think we are going to get richer , to have a more luxurious lifestyle , to make acquisitions . |
| 38 | If there are difficulties in claiming that ahi sā is the right way in all circumstances and that the way of violence can never lead to Truth , there are similar difficulties in assuming that no violation of moral duty is involved in the practice of satyāgraha , or that it is only through the practice of satyāgraha that we show ourselves to be informed by the spirit of Truth and non-violence . |
| 39 | Are we going to allow ourselves to be intimidated by a tin-pot dictator like Jazali ? ’ |
| 40 | One would expect ourselves to be bonded with Adam and Eve against our common foe but instead in their unfallen state , they seem to be most unlike the people of today . |
| 41 | I 've an aversion to tale-bearing from my schooldays , but the man 's such a public menace we can hardly allow ourselves to be deterred by scruples of that sort . ’ |
| 42 | But we could never bring ourselves to be bedded by them , though there was a little gypsy flower-girl with her gilded basket of faded carnations , stolen from a grave , who announced a sudden passion for Dana . |
| 43 | Nor is it any use to insist that you can conceive of what it is like for a knee which is not yours to be hurting . |
| 44 | You have to use these methods because there are fifty cassettes coming in every day and you need yours to be picked out and heard with particular care . |
| 45 | He regarded posterity as the only afterlife worth contemplating and , to show his contempt for the resurrection of the body , he left his to be dissected — a bold gesture that his contemporaries were slow to follow — and his reconstituted skeleton was exhibited in University College , London . |
| 46 | He did n't exactly offer his hand , but when each of them put out theirs he allowed his to be taken and dangled slightly . |
| 47 | He his to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses . |
| 48 | But suppose we think that everything that is said purports to be a statement of fact , and suppose we think that for someone to be justified in saying what he says he must say it on the basis of something he has observed . |
| 49 | Carlotta de Leyva belongs to one of the liberal families opposed to the dictator Lopez and as the betrothed of the leader of that opposition , Don Manuel of Encinitas , she is to some extent a figurehead , a political symbol : moreover , to the youth of eighteen , Highworth Ridden , who is introduced to her soon after his arrival in Santa Barbara , she is an ideal because she is in effect the first woman who has ever touched his love , as someone to be served , not someone to aspire to . |
| 50 | He telephoned the Forensic Science Laboratory and arranged for someone to be sent down . |
| 51 | ‘ There were a lot of decisions made on the mainland — and she was not someone to be sat on . ’ |
| 52 | In a group of 20 or 30 youngsters from the background described by my hon. Friend the Member for Cardiff , West ( Mr. Morgan ) it would be considered odd for someone to be puffing away and spreading filth in the direction of others in that group . |
| 53 | Nine o'clock for someone to be taken to — ’ ( It was the day-care centre for the very old — those no longer able to manage for themselves . ) |
| 54 | Until recently , Peter had thought of Kate as someone to be avoided : a member of an alien species who happened to be Richard 's sister . |
| 55 | THERE are more glamorous places than Glasgow in which to be liberated , but Dariusz Dziekanowski has no complaints . |
| 56 | Mr ‘ Spike ’ Milligan , the manic depressive , is a man of many parts — the latest of which to be revealed is that of philanderer . |
| 57 | This was not an office from which to be dispensing medical advice . |
| 58 | The movement , if odd , was well paced , giving the voices space in which to be heard , and the dance was fluid and convincing . |
| 59 | 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 . |
| 60 | You have n't ans answered my question Mr Chairman , I asked you why did the Council vote to this museum on the Norfolk enquired by trust which to be given you by the Suffolk Authority Wild Life Trust |