Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Assuming this to reflect common-sense rationality , it follows that there are three types of sanctions which prey on the minds of thoughtful officials contemplating the commission of corporate crime : ( i ) legal sanctions , and especially ‘ will I be sent to prison ? ’ ; ( ii ) occupational sanctions and especially ‘ will my job be lost or my promotional chances endangered ? ’ ; ( iii ) social sanctions — ‘ will I be rejected by family , friends , and acquaintances and required to resign from the country club ? ’ |
| 2 | May I be introduced to the others ? ’ |
| 3 | And what area would I be restricted to ? |
| 4 | Yeah but will I be allowed to ? |
| 5 | For a moment it looked as if Evans might resist , then he let himself be led to the sofa where he sat down quietly with his head between his hands and began to cry . |
| 6 | DESPITE the Ministry of Defence 's ( MoD ) statement that no more check-flights would be undertaken on Vulcan B.2 XH558 — enabling the flightcrew to stay current should the decision to ground her be reversed , or she be flown to her next owner ( FP November , p26 ) — the mighty Vulcan flew again from Waddington , Lincs , in October and was due to fly again as this issue went on sale . |
| 7 | On no account would she be sent to the Avenue Foch . |
| 8 | If Vitor reported her might she be taken to court and fined ? |
| 9 | By the time she had closed her room door behind her , though , while there was still some part of her that did n't want to be attracted to him some other part of her was arguing , Why should n't she be attracted to him ? |
| 10 | Nor can she be expected to . |
| 11 | The Company will indemnify your next of kin for travelling expenses incurred necessarily in visiting you should you be confined to hospital as a direct result of an accident sustained whilst engaged on Company business . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | So wide are the analyses and the prescriptions that one is tempted to wonder whether the concept of pluralist stagnation might itself be applied to the political analysis of Britain 's ills . |
| 14 | This libidinal energy , once let loose , could itself be exposed to an ordering , as in the theory of Freud and the practice of psychoanalysis . |
| 15 | Any such powers are evidently permutable ; for example unc Similarly , any power of a matrix may itself be raised to a power ; for example unc while if A is non-singular unc Evidently , the index laws of ordinary algebra apply . |
| 16 | The concept of structure is replaced in Derrida 's writing by the concept of a chain of signification which avoids the dangers implicit in the notion of structure : by being open-ended and non-teleological it does away with any idea of a commanding entity within the system , and by having a temporal as well as a spatial dimension it can not itself be reduced to the status of entity or object . |
| 17 | It depended on our signing indemnity waivers , freeing the military authorities from responsibility should we be blown to smithereens by the unexploded shells then deemed to be scattered freely across both Range West and Range East . |
| 18 | The answer is not difficult , if we remember that each meeting of the Assembly was different in composition from all others ; personal oratory and ascendancy , not party organization , decided the issues , and that is why the absence of Kimon mattered so much : he would have given his usual speech on the ‘ special relationship ’ with Sparta , urging that nothing be done to the Athenian constitution to which oligarchic Sparta would take mortal offence . |
| 19 | These are : that they remain as at present , organized and administered on an ad hoc basis ; that responsibility for them be given to the CNAA ; that they become the responsibility of TEC ; that they become the responsibility of a joint CNAA/TEC body to be set up ; and that a new and independent validating body be established specifically for foundation courses . |
| 20 | How could she let herself be drawn to such an impossible man ? |
| 21 | ‘ No decent Egyptian woman would let herself be subjected to such a thing , ’ said Zeinab , removing Owen 's hand . |
| 22 | Why would a man like him be attracted to a girl who , for a lot of the time , looked rather like a gypsy ? those cool green eyes seemed to say . |
| 23 | In the past her songwriting and spiritual voice has led her be compared to Suzanne Vega , Joni Mitchell and Judie Tzuke , and Headland gained impressive reviews at the New Generation showcase at the Riverside earlier this year . |
| 24 | Many look upon them as an opportunity to put training into practice , or as a means of getting their first introduction to the tasks that will face them should they be posted to Northern Ireland . |
| 25 | How could they be tied to Hong Kong as a condition of receipt ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | They appear to have a stem : could they be related to the crinoids ? |
| 28 | Can they be related to changes in the personal income tax and social security system ? |
| 29 | In no sense could they be said to be members of industrial co-operatives : that is , of organisations set up for the manufacture of goods or the provision of services and wholly , or very largely , owned and ultimately controlled by those working in them . |
| 30 | 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 ? |