Example sentences of "[pn reflx] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis is extremely good at describing the actual territory in which the moral life , for most of us , is thrashed out , and the extent to which we enable ourselves to be deluded about ourselves and other people : |
| 2 | By this stage in the Parliament we were deeply unpopular and had allowed ourselves to be painted as a government forcing through doctrinaire policies . |
| 3 | But we could never bring ourselves to be bedded by them , though there was a little gypsy flower-girl with her gilded basket of faded carnations , stolen from a grave , who announced a sudden passion for Dana . |
| 4 | But given its setting , we must not allow ourselves to be blinded by Abraham 's bravery , nor , when we read of the resounding success of his venture , by his military prowess . |
| 5 | I would like to say on behalf of us all how glad we are to welcome the Eberhardts , and how privileged we feel ourselves to be offered this recital . |
| 6 | I fear the Tory tabloids have made it difficult for those of us anti-Leftists who consider ourselves to be of a more reflective disposition . |
| 7 | By allowing ourselves to be forced to carry these cards for the convenience of the state , we will be acknowledging that we are at the disposition of the state and its computers . |
| 8 | After it 's all over , we 'll never allow ourselves to be separated again … |
| 9 | Not many of us consider ourselves to be good listeners . |
| 10 | It was easy , when we were predominantly discussing philosophy , to link farm animal welfare and protection of the environment , in so far as they are both concerned with what qualifies us to consider ourselves to be good people . |
| 11 | So when we listen to music we should allow ourselves to be carried away into the musical paradise . |
| 12 | I 've an aversion to tale-bearing from my schooldays , but the man 's such a public menace we can hardly allow ourselves to be deterred by scruples of that sort . ’ |
| 13 | Largely as a result of Donald Griffin 's book The Question of Animal Awareness ( Rockefeller UP , 2nd ed 1981 ) , ethologists have begun to re-examine the issue of animal intellect and to ask whether the organisms they study are , as we presume ourselves to be , something more than mere mindless circuitry . |
| 14 | If there are difficulties in claiming that ahi sā is the right way in all circumstances and that the way of violence can never lead to Truth , there are similar difficulties in assuming that no violation of moral duty is involved in the practice of satyāgraha , or that it is only through the practice of satyāgraha that we show ourselves to be informed by the spirit of Truth and non-violence . |
| 15 | We 're to blame for the way we allow ourselves to be treated , but curiously the solution does not lie in our hands . |
| 16 | We should never allow ourselves to be swayed by our feelings . |
| 17 | It is not that in desperate circumstances we discover ourselves to be natural egoists and throw off moral restraints , it is rather that morality no longer applies . |
| 18 | In it we know ourselves to be rational agents detached from spontaneity , judging on objective grounds what will serve our ends . |
| 19 | However , we are equally guilty at times of thinking ourselves to be better at certain pursuits than we have cause to feel . |
| 20 | In the West , we voluntarily sell out to the alluring God of Materialism and allow ourselves to be manipulated and controlled by Western ideals . |
| 21 | That now , when perhaps we need Him most of all , we allow ourselves to be weaned away from He who gave us life ? |
| 22 | Who do we believe ourselves to be ? |
| 23 | One layer out from the core , made up of thoughts and feelings , we have our self-image — who we believe ourselves to be . |
| 24 | When we allow ourselves to be dominated by the demands and opinions of others , our own self-esteem diminishes . |
| 25 | Material gain We allow ourselves to be persuaded when we think we are going to get richer , to have a more luxurious lifestyle , to make acquisitions . |
| 26 | If we imagine ourselves to be standing outside time , looking down upon the history of the Universe as if it were a relief map , we get a different perspective . |
| 27 | Or , if we prefer it , we may say the physical body as it is described by the anatomist is the more ghostly thing , a phantasy of cells and cell assemblies , a convenient way of talking about ourselves and that we really are more or less what we feel ourselves to be . ’ |
| 28 | This is the sort of situation which leads to our distinguishing ‘ ourselves as we feel ourselves to be ’ and ‘ ourselves as we are to others ’ . |
| 29 | Sometimes we appear to ourselves to be making sense , sometimes we seem to be obviously deranged , and sometimes our thoughts are driven by the vivid imagery of dreams . |
| 30 | In fact , it may be added , we do not take ourselves to be faced with such an overwhelming task in connection with condition-sets for an effect , and hence for this reason too those sets are wrongly conceived as causal circumstances . |