Example sentences of "to [be] let " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was wondering when I was going to be let free to do the work of the Lord . ’ |
| 2 | Others such as George Cadbury , who initiated Bournville Village in 1897 , and Joseph Rowntree who started New Earswick Village , York , in 1904 , experimented in creating model communities of houses built at prices which would enable them to be let at rents within the reach of working-class incomes . |
| 3 | By encouraging the private builder to build houses at low cost to be let or sold , houses were provided at the least cost to the community . |
| 4 | The Times of 8 June 1838 ran the following advertisement : ‘ To be let , furnished or unfurnished , Forest House , Chigwell , twelve miles from the City . |
| 5 | Soon America was clamouring for the dollar to be let in : its burden of debt to oil-rich countries , which since the late 1990s had refused payment in dollars , had become too great . |
| 6 | At the kitchen door , the cat , neck-fur upstanding like the spines of a hedgehog , wailed to be let out . |
| 7 | The grateful driver told the farmer that his cargo consisted of 47 foxes which were being transported from the Midlands to be let loose in Wales by order of the RSPCA . |
| 8 | After his ordeal , Mr Daszczuk criticised a neighbour who had ignored his pleas to be let in when the dogs were chasing him . |
| 9 | Amelia fluttered against his lips , entreating to be let back in . |
| 10 | Muggers who decided to phase out mugging by 1993 could hardly expect to be let off , yet the UK expected to go on breaking the law with impunity . |
| 11 | The others followed , all of the same murderous breed , twenty killers to be let loose on the tiny defenceless country which Trent had learnt to love for its simplicity and innocence as much as for the variety of its natural beauty . |
| 12 | About agoraphobia and claustrophobia and the paradoxical desire to be let out into unconfined space , the wild moorland , the open ground , and at the same time to be closed into tighter and tighter impenetrable small spaces — like Emily Dickinson 's voluntary confinement , like the Sibyl 's jar . |
| 13 | Beg at Duart gate to be let in , where she had ruled till two hours ago ? |
| 14 | Old Rottweilers may need to be let out more frequently to answer the call of nature , but for shorter periods . |
| 15 | If not , the suspect is to be let go , unless , once again , detention is ‘ necessary to secure or preserve evidence relating to an offence or to obtain such evidence by questioning ’ [ emphasis added ] . |
| 16 | They want to be let alone . |
| 17 | In particular , someone , maybe the DHA or the individual GP , needs to decide whether contracts are to be let for particular services or not . |
| 18 | ‘ Few projects for amending the condition of the needy , and for the reduction of parish rates , would be so beneficially devised as to build lodging houses in places where they were likely to be let : and in what way could money be more securely deposited than by a general subscription , in shares of fifty or one hundred pounds each : five thousand pounds would build a number of houses , worth from five to twenty-five pounds per annum , or double that sum if furnished . ’ |
| 19 | There are soft , flat miaows to be let out of the house and pitiful , drawn-out miaows to be let in again when it starts raining . |
| 20 | There are soft , flat miaows to be let out of the house and pitiful , drawn-out miaows to be let in again when it starts raining . |
| 21 | For there was a large notice outside it : ‘ To be let or sold . ’ |
| 22 | To be let or sold … |
| 23 | ‘ The right to be let alone ’ is probably the simplest statement of the privacy claim — significantly by an American judge in the 1880s — but it is a claim , not a fundamental right , since what is involved is a negotiation of the frontier between individual autonomy and social accountability . |
| 24 | At its literal face value ‘ the right to be let alone ’ is a quite unreasonable claim , and would be useless as the basis of granting legal protection . |
| 25 | Some relationships have to be let go in order that new ones can flourish . |
| 26 | The Rector of Londesborough saved the day by giving chase in his car and he and Fred caught up with the horse at the farm gate , waiting to be let in . |
| 27 | He pressed the buzzer to be let out . |
| 28 | Far too valuable to be let go , it was resurrected by Edward I who acquired in 1280 the manor of Iham in Icklesham , a plateau overlooking the old site . |
| 29 | By Sunday evening , though , I was getting back to myself and expected to be let out in a day or two but they kept me in for the week , giving me tests , including an electrocardiogram . ’ |
| 30 | Repeating submissions made in December 1991 , it is further suggested that the requirements for a property to be let for 26 weeks out of a 52-week period — before an individual is allowed a deduction in respect of interest on a loan to purchase the property — is too restrictive in the present state of the property market . |