Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will not have to depend on now or never clinical demonstrations in the clinical room ; nor will you be reduced to knock-kneed terror at the prospect of a viva voce examination . |
| 2 | How could she let herself be drawn to such an impossible man ? |
| 3 | ‘ No decent Egyptian woman would let herself be subjected to such a thing , ’ said Zeinab , removing Owen 's hand . |
| 4 | As for these men who came here which you called volunteers , they will neither be volunteers nor will they be tied to any colours or receive any pay . |
| 5 | With the benefit of hindsight er could the tornado programme have been made more efficient with the lessons that you 've learnt so far , er from er Eurofighter an and secondly , perhaps more difficult , er the lessons you have learned from tornado and certainly from the current project , could they be transferred to other complicated collaborative er project , programmes like cobra and ? |
| 6 | Does the idea of homology apply only to morphological patterns , he asks , or can it be applied to developmental processes ? |
| 7 | How effective do you consider this means of presentation and how widely could it be applied to other discourse types ? |
| 8 | How could he let it be known to all and sundry that they were ‘ engaged ’ — how could he ? |
| 9 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 10 | Napoleon III let it be known to both men that a simple withdrawal of the candidature would suffice and that France would then be glad to consider the whole affair closed . |
| 11 | Also , if a person chooses not to smoke why should he be subjected to such a poisonous , foul and unpleasant cocktail of several thousand gases in the form of tobacco smoke ? |
| 12 | On the vexed question of how far soldiers and sailors should themselves be subjected to compulsory periodic genital inspection , medics and military chiefs were divided . |
| 13 | Among possible factors are human activities ( notably grazing and deforestation ) , which promote desertification and may lead to local climate change , and changes in sea surface temperatures in the southern hemisphere , which may themselves be linked to global warming and/or the increasing incidence of ocean current changes such as the El Niño effect . |