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 | 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 | It will take a political Houdini escape trick to keep him from being sucked further into the mire . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | Kerry Court that he was now prepared to allow himself to be sent back . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She lifted her chin , glaring back , refusing to allow herself to be bested completely . |
| 11 | At length she persuaded Lady Merchiston to allow herself to be tidied up . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the Scots who had refused to allow her to be brought up in England sent her , at the beginning of August , to France . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | But it is dangerous to allow yourself to be taken away from the clients . |
| 16 | But I was determined not to allow myself to be hauled in like a helpless fish as he reeled in his capable line . |
| 17 | First , multi-media technology must become cheaper , more portable ( to enable it to be moved around within schools ) , easier-to-use , and reliable . |
| 18 | So you need to write down enough details of a book or article , or any other source , to enable it to be found again . |
| 19 | Ted puffed energetically at his , uncertain yet whether to congratulate himself on being parked up here with this very attractive young girl , or to commiserate with himself for his failure to make more than token progress . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I used to ride both horses in the early days to take them to be shod over to Lowson 's Smithy at Romaldkirk . |
| 22 | I came all this long way , Marion Maclean , to ask you to be coming back with me to Duart . ’ |
| 23 | It was the custom for various floats with tableaux to be wheeled in at midnight , and on this occasion , in an attempt to prevent them from being broken up , the organisers employed large numbers of rugger blues , dressed in white flannels and T-shirts , to act as stewards . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |