Example sentences of "be let [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Married women were more likely than single mothers to be let down in this way , and such women were particularly likely to develop depression . |
| 2 | Evening elegance can be let down by everyday watch wear . |
| 3 | Fenella pulled the velvet folds of the cover about her and tried to sleep and not to think about what would happen and whether they would be let out of these rooms and what stories she might have to tell the Gruagach about Star People and the Fire Court and the other fictional places they were supposed to have travelled to . |
| 4 | About agoraphobia and claustrophobia and the paradoxical desire to be let out into unconfined space , the wild moorland , the open ground , and at the same time to be closed into tighter and tighter impenetrable small spaces — like Emily Dickinson 's voluntary confinement , like the Sibyl 's jar . |
| 5 | The police chief Tuma was taken to court by one judge for breaking an October 1989 decree to remove the miners , only to be let off by another a few weeks later . |