Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] to [be] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | A number of detailed technical changes are also proposed , including those necessary to adapt the 1989/1992 reforms of life assurance taxation to enable them to be applied more easily to the UK branches of foreign life offices . |
2 | He agreed to hand over ‘ the castles , holds and fortresses of Scotland to the cardinal and the said earls , to cause them to be kept by such as they thought meet ’ . |
3 | In principle , one could have expected to see a list of such bodies appended as a Schedule to the Act , but the Lord Chancellor , with all his ‘ numerous and talented counsellors ’ , was unable to cause one to be drawn up . |
4 | She believes Jack was probably rounded up off the moors by a dealer who intended to sell him to be fattened up for slaughter.He has now joined hundreds of other animals at the centre who have been rescued . |
5 | The European Commission draft regulation seems to permit you to be made anywhere . |
6 | To mess around with them is to court death , to allow them to be messed around with is a breach of our social duties towards each other … |
7 | Kerry Court that he was now prepared to allow himself to be sent back . |
8 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |
9 | She lifted her chin , glaring back , refusing to allow herself to be bested completely . |
10 | At length she persuaded Lady Merchiston to allow herself to be tidied up . |
11 | It was irrational to be so resentful now when it was so nearly over anyway , but she was too infuriated by his failure to love her to be thinking clearly . |
12 | Meanwhile , the Scots who had refused to allow her to be brought up in England sent her , at the beginning of August , to France . |
13 | That clergy and musicians be prepared to plan and lead worship imaginatively , to blend different styles , and to allow themselves to be guided both by the needs of the congregation and by sound liturgical principles in devising church services ( 514 — 516 , 522–523 ) . |
14 | But it is dangerous to allow yourself to be taken away from the clients . |
15 | But I was determined not to allow myself to be hauled in like a helpless fish as he reeled in his capable line . |
16 | First , multi-media technology must become cheaper , more portable ( to enable it to be moved around within schools ) , easier-to-use , and reliable . |
17 | So you need to write down enough details of a book or article , or any other source , to enable it to be found again . |
18 | She held the letter over the basket , ready to consign it to being thrown away , and then at the last minute snatched it back and put in in her desk . |
19 | I used to ride both horses in the early days to take them to be shod over to Lowson 's Smithy at Romaldkirk . |
20 | I came all this long way , Marion Maclean , to ask you to be coming back with me to Duart . ’ |