Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pn reflx] to [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A problem arises when a person makes a mistake about the circumstances by which he is confronted and supposes himself to be under attack when in truth he is not . |
| 2 | Strephon allows himself to be duped by the charms of this woman who , in Swift 's view , seems immortal because she appears clean . |
| 3 | The second half of section 12(1) deals with persons who knowing that a conveyance has been taken without authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 4 | He discreetly allows himself to be steered . |
| 5 | Section 12(1) states : … a person shall be guilty of an offence if , without having the consent of the owner or other lawful authority , he takes any conveyance for his own or another 's use or knowing that any conveyance has been taken without such authority , drives it or allows himself to be carried in or on it . |
| 6 | ( c ) " Allows himself to be carried in or on it " . |
| 7 | This process is analogous to a buyer at an auction paying more than he can afford because he allows himself to be swept along by the bidding . |
| 8 | But what stands stark and clear , above all speculation , arguments , discussions and justifications , is the fact that anything which allows itself to be used to sustain such atrocious misery can not possibly be anything but a travesty of a ‘ religion ’ within the meaning of that word that all right-minded and honourable people intensely desire . |
| 9 | Divergent sexuality , it is clear even now , is only permissible as long as it allows itself to be stolen , as long as it conforms to existing industry patterns and dominant sexual stereotypes . |
| 10 | Herodotus can not bring himself to believe in a story which gives as the cause of centuries of rivalry ‘ nothing worse than woman-stealing on both sides ’ ( 42 ) , for he does not think the Greeks could possibly have gone to war over anything so trivial , and indeed he appears to concur with the Persian view that ‘ no young woman allows herself to be abducted if she does not wish to be ’ ( 42 ) . |
| 11 | Because Mrs like erm sort of assumes herself to be really fashionable by the things that like up with the fashions or anything and then Mr self important stories of the War . |
| 12 | The temptation to believe that what is most modern is also best — to see human history as a steady progress in knowledge and truth , probably culminating about wherever one happens oneself to be located — has always been almost irresistible , and popularised — if crude — evolutionary theory has , since the last century , added to what seems an historically continual tendency . |
| 13 | Left to his own reflections , he reveals himself to be a bright , keen opportunist . |
| 14 | In it , the Hucknall left-back reveals himself to be a chip off the Sid Kelly block : ‘ favourite food — 32oz steak-with-everything ’ . |
| 15 | In his introduction , he reveals himself to be only too aware of the ‘ complex transactions between past and present ’ in which he is involved . |
| 16 | He shows himself to be here , as he did in his earlier Deconstruction : Theory and Practice , an admirably lucid and urbane expositor of difficult ideas . |
| 17 | In respect of God 's being , the fundamental axiom with which Barth works is that God is ‘ eternally and antecedently in himself ’ what he shows himself to be in Jesus . |
| 18 | More specifically , Lukacs shows himself to be extremely hostile to a number of key concepts on the socialist realist agenda precisely because they are symptomatic of an excessively subjectivist and false , because partial , view of reality . |
| 19 | Frank shows himself to be the only ventriloquist to move his lips but not his teeth . |
| 20 | ICL now reckons itself to be the second largest supplier in the UK , John Bennett , ICL 's Director of Marketing Support and Communications told the audience at a recent briefing . |
| 21 | Likewise when serious troubles threaten and sorrow comes , a compelling need to believe that there is help or relief available from a source of much greater scope than that neighbourly help which meets the lesser needs of day to day discomforts , shows itself to be experienced by , in some measure , nearly all humanity . |
| 22 | It is a bold colonization by a group that knows it is — and shows itself to be — in the ascendant . |
| 23 | In fact , if inspected more closely , it shows itself to be a rickety structure of ad hoc contrivance and ill-founded reductivist moves . |
| 24 | In a striking phrase , Enzensberger suggests that ‘ artistic productivity reveals itself to be the extreme marginal case of a much more widespread productivity ’ ( ibid : 46 ) . |
| 25 | An exception is fellow guest Jamie Lee Curtis who shows herself to be a fervent Soul II Soul fan . |
| 26 | Except , more often than not , the Second Mrs Tanqueray reveals herself to be a carbon-copy of the first one in almost every way but one and that 's only until the new Tanqueray brood arrives , whereupon Lothario takes to ringing up the first Mrs T to say ‘ Where did we go wrong ? ’ |
| 27 | That section is in the following terms : ( 1 ) Every one who by words spoken or written or by conduct represents himself , or who knowingly suffers himself to be represented , as a partner in a particular firm , is liable as a partner to any one who has on the faith of any such representation given credit to the firm , whether the representation has or has not been made or communicated to the person so giving credit by or with the knowledge of the apparent partner making the representation or suffering it to be made . |
| 28 | For all the enigmas in his career , Wojciech Jaruzelski seems himself to be the prototype of what the USSR has come to trust most in the Polish military outlook . |
| 29 | The Socialist Leaguer declared : A disciplined organisation founded on a common policy and working as part of the Labour movement is what the League conceives itself to be . |
| 30 | In it , the feral mink often finds itself to be a close neighbour to vulnerable domestic stock . |