Example sentences of "lets [pron] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps to more sympathetic eyes they were more touching than risible , and no more grotesque than many other lovers in whose relationship one loves overwhelmingly , and the other lets himself be loved , for whatever reason — convenience , self-importance , pity . |
| 2 | the bloody massacre in Bangladesh quickly covered the memory of the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia ; the assassination of Allende drowned the groans of Bangladesh ; the war in the Sinai desert made people forget Allende ; the Cambodian massacre made people forget Sinai ; and so on and so forth , until ultimately everyone lets everything be forgotten . |
| 3 | She attacks , but never lets herself be drawn too far away from the recumbent , moaning body of her mistress . |
| 4 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 5 | That it is so rare is due , in very large part , to the efficiency of the processes whereby the House , particularly the government party , lets it be known what it will and will not tolerate . |
| 6 | Wilfred lets it be known that I 'm not an unpaid curate . ’ |
| 7 | With this scenario , assume next that the company decides to set its price initially at 56,700 and lets it be known generally that it will hold price at that level until the average cost per unit of cumulative output falls below that figure , whereupon the company will set its price at 20 per cent above the falling average cost per cumulative unit . |
| 8 | Some of the functionality that lets it be sold for over $10,000 has been stripped out like technical image editing and the ability to scan in pages over 11 x 17 . |
| 9 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |