Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [prep] [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 | The European Commission draft regulation seems to permit you to be made anywhere . |
| 3 | It will take a political Houdini escape trick to keep him from being sucked further into the mire . |
| 4 | She lifted her chin , glaring back , refusing to allow herself to be bested completely . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | But it is dangerous to allow yourself to be taken away from the clients . |
| 8 | So you need to write down enough details of a book or article , or any other source , to enable it to be found again . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Your notebook should be small enough to fit in your bag or pocket and have covers which are firm enough to prevent it from being damaged easily . |
| 11 | We can conclude that so far the law 's quest to subject the power conferred on corporate managers to controls to prevent it from being exercised arbitrarily has not been successful . |
| 12 | Many analysts believed that Cedras and his colleagues had only taken charge in order to prevent themselves from being swept away by events , and some senior commanders had reportedly refused to join Cedras in the ruling junta . |