Example sentences of "they [prep] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could not expect them to be warmed by the idea of daffodils coming up outside . |
| 2 | He said it would be traumatic for them to be flown home to Orkney for the Proof Hearing , only to be flown away again afterwards . |
| 3 | Yet it is rare for them to be made to take the responsibility for it . |
| 4 | He it was who rescued a number of precious unpublished test recordings from private collections , and caused them to be made available for the first time . |
| 5 | I understand these are all in a state of disrepair and I should be grateful if you would investigate and arrange for them to be made good . |
| 6 | This particular breach … conducting the premises , or permitting them to be conducted , as a house of ill-fame … is one which in my judgment was not remedied by merely stopping the user . |
| 7 | No man has any reason to say that any two states belong to the same self unless he has a reason to believe them to be caused by the same body . |
| 8 | There are a few touches of delirium in Lecercle 's text itself , as he would certainly be delighted to admit ; I take them to be caused by an invasion of normal English by French . |
| 9 | Stefan , perhaps you would be good enough to arrange for them to be collected from my apartment in Vienna and brought down here for the wardrobe woman . ’ |
| 10 | ( 4 ) Standstill agreements ( see para 1.2 above ) may cause the parties to them to be presumed to be acting in concert and the Panel should be consulted in cases of doubt . |
| 11 | A meeting between members of the Palestinian delegation to the Middle East peace talks and Arafat on June 18 caused them to be threatened with possible arrest by the Israeli authorities on their return to the occupied territories . |
| 12 | Was he really so unbelievably sure of his charms that he thought he had only to indicate his wishes for them to be fulfilled ? |
| 13 | The timber steps illustrated have been made from Forest mini sleepers , which look like logs , but have two flat faces allowing them to be placed one on top of the other . |
| 14 | The documents are technical , and I have arranged for them to be placed in all public libraries in Cardiff , and notices to that effect have been placed in local newspapers . |
| 15 | But when she heard about Lore Selo and her two sisters , whose mother did not want them to be parted , Miss Harder promptly offered to take all three and the committee were shocked into acceptance . |
| 16 | That the nomination of Boys to the School shall be made fairly and without favouritism and that the Corporation shall not permit them to be influenced by political considerations , whether arising out of local or general politics . |
| 17 | It is time for many such ideas to be amalgamated into a fresh overview of prehistory ; time for them to be applied holistically . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Whilst these techniques are still in their early stages of development , the programs are being designed to allow them to be applied in accordance with general design-office practice in the following manner . |
| 20 | ‘ To call for them to be applied to a non-Muslim society is nonsense . ’ |
| 21 | Half-pay was to be granted to disbanded officers , to enable them to be recalled if necessary . |
| 22 | If the Loyalists are so determined to live under British rule , it would make economic sense for them to be assisted to move to the mainland . |
| 23 | In order that you may continue with other work ( not necessarily involving LIFESPAN ) , mail messages are accumulated within LIFESPAN until it is convenient for them to be inspected or printed . |
| 24 | This is based upon the proposition that some people require lesser levels of care than that provided in the care setting in which they are located , and that it is more cost-effective for them to be supported in a less dependent setting ( Challis , 1992c ) . |
| 25 | She invited them to be seated and offered them a drink . |
| 26 | Would it be in order if such marriages are arranged for them to be co-joined er downstairs in St. Stephens crypt ? |
| 27 | The Hispanized inhabitants of the lowlands viewed the unconverted pagans as little better than animals , whose lack of sophistication in dealing with a market economy allowed them to be exploited through debt bondage and coerced trade . |
| 28 | Working Paper 2 states : ‘ … even where a service is regarded as one which must be provided locally , it does not follow that every patient must have that treatment locally , it does not follow that every patient must have that treatment locally , if the patient and the GP or DHA as purchaser believe it to be better for them to be treated elsewhere ’ . |
| 29 | This suggests , I think , that I must refine my earlier criterion in the following way : it is wrong for a person to be treated as a means to the satisfaction of another 's desire , and only allowable for them to be treated , with their consent , as a means to the satisfaction of another 's needs , if no other means for their satisfaction can be made available . |
| 30 | The facts that huissiers are appointed or licensed by the state and have a defined role in Codes of Civil Procedure in respect of service enable them to be treated as in a similar position to the competent state officials , and direct communication from huissier to huissier ( who will then act in the state of destination to involve the local parquet ) can be authorised . |