Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Let nothing be done through strife or vainglory ’ she was told in Philippians 2 — and she had striven and been vainglorious . |
| 2 | ‘ By all means let there be challenges for the promotion of better health , but let them be based on sound reasoning . |
| 3 | They speak in their own voices — let them be heard ! |
| 4 | Let them be listed in increasing order as unc [ so that unc etc . ] . |
| 5 | Let them be left , |
| 6 | O let them be left , wildness and wet ; |
| 7 | Outlaws from the forests to the south , grown over-bold ; let them be taken for that , and they might yet make another and a better attempt . |
| 8 | I knelt on the wooden floor in the East Yorkshire winter praying , " Dear God if you exist let me be warmed . " |
| 9 | Please , Bernard , let me be converted or we 'll be separated after death and I could n't bear that . ’ |
| 10 | Let me be buried in lead at Claydon next to where your father proposes to lie himself , and let no stranger wind me , nor do not let me be stripped , but put a clean smock on me , and let my face be hid and do you stay in the room and see me wound and laid in the first coffin , which must be of wood if I do not die of any infectious disease , else I am so far from desiring it that I forbid you to come near me . |
| 11 | She proceeds to give an illustration relating to Mary , Countess of Northumberland , who , dying in 1572 , left the following comment in her will : ‘ Do not in any wise let me be opened after I am dead . |
| 12 | Greer seems to be saying , ‘ I 'm old , I 'm angry , let me be taken seriously . ’ |
| 13 | Please let me be remembered by something more adequate , less apologetic than the plaque , brown , one foot by two , up there on the wall by the Euston Road exit at King 's Cross : ‘ In Memory Of/The Thirty One People/Who Lost Their Lives/In The King 's Cross/Underground Fire Of/18th November 1987 . ’ |
| 14 | Place a sundial over my grave and let me be forgotten . ’ |
| 15 | we let ourselves be led via tea and |
| 16 | But neither I nor my family would have any self-respect left if we let ourselves be portrayed by actors . |
| 17 | The bullock stared but , having absorbed the garb , the poise , the certainty of Hope , let himself be stared down . |
| 18 | In the intervening years only one major English army crossed to France , in 1475 , when Edward IV let himself be bought off by a treaty and substantial cash payments . |
| 19 | Tug felt the call to join her , to leap to his feet and let himself be carried up on the tide , into a high and heroic world . |
| 20 | And let himself be caught as easily . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ And instead I let you be captured and pitchforked into the same nightmare again . ’ |
| 22 | She was too cowardly and let herself be isolated ; something she could not bear . |
| 23 | Lily , without protesting , let herself be led . |
| 24 | She nodded and let herself be led through to his room on the second level of the travellers ' hostel . |
| 25 | Mrs Thatcher never let herself be interviewed by another Mrs Gould . |
| 26 | She felt a boiling rage about the Westwards , the family who cut off their own flesh and blood , who let her be raised by the charity of the nuns and never bothered themselves to think that she was now of university age . |
| 27 | ( As in inscriptions , e.g. Syll. 1016 from fourth-century BC Iasos in Karia : ‘ let him be excluded from the sacred place ’ . ) |
| 28 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 29 | I understand it , is that erm , even given that this case is arguable , erm alright let it be argued out , but if , if er , before it is argued out you 're not entitled to collect money from a simple fund , you are frustrating the objectives of the directive |
| 30 | Let it be recorded that Namibia , with Gerhard Mans prominent , also played their part in opening the game . |