Example sentences of "[vb mod] be spared the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We feel very strongly about that and that the law should be changed for future children , so that they should be spared the anguish of separation and no contact at all . ’ |
| 2 | The summary way in which teacher education was disposed of at Barry also contrasts strongly with what happened in North East Wales : here , there was much lobbying to prevent teacher training based on Cartrefle College of Education , now merged into the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education , from contracting further ; it is indeed ironical that on the same day , 26 July 1977 , that Gordon Oakes , Minister of State at the DES , declared that Cartrefle should be spared the axe , predominantly on the basis of its geographical location , he should pronounce a death sentence at Barry . |
| 3 | We may even suspect — and that would be the greatest pity of all — that we should be spared the severe reprimands of Professor Badian for all our sins of omission and commission in not giving proper attention to the difference between conquering Gaul and subjugating Greece . |
| 4 | What Eileen had done , of course , when she reached the stage in her life when she might naturally have been considering starting a family , was subconsciously to ‘ invent ’ her illness in order that she might be spared the horrors of it all . |
| 5 | You 'll be spared the flowers and the incense-burning and general carry-on . |
| 6 | These schools may be spared the risks of improper use , but schools can not tailor programmes of study to children throughout the range of ability if ability can not be assessed . |
| 7 | Students ' expectations would be shaped accordingly , and they would be spared the struggle to grasp the elusive ‘ point ’ of the subject which is a feature of life in English Departments . |
| 8 | I remember that Lee once said that it was a good thing so many contemporary artists use shoddy materials because their works would happily disintegrate so future generations would be spared the sight of them . |
| 9 | We , as a society , could learn from that , and , if we regarded the birth of every disabled child as a precious gift and were prepared to provide the necessary resources to the children and their parents to allow these gifts to develop , then perhaps we would be spared the distressing sight of individual and groups of parents pursuing the latest fashionable cure for their child 's blindness , deafness or other disability at whatever cost to themselves , their families and friends . |
| 10 | Suzie loved window-shopping , so was n't there a possibility that she might be here , that her quest could end in the next hour or so and she would be spared the ordeal of seeing Rune Christensen again ? |
| 11 | It is true , of course , that women would be spared the agony of choice . |
| 12 | IT IS small consolation to Cardiff that they will be spared the full force of the All Blacks on Saturday . |
| 13 | This has several advantages : fragile items will be spared the cumulative damage resulting from repeated handling and removal from storage facilities . |
| 14 | But here , luckily , you will be spared the difficulty that can arise through not having " seen " that murder since in all probability you will have begun your story by describing , in as much vivid and convincing detail as you can manage , the killing itself or its immediate circumstances as they affect the perpetrator . |
| 15 | I will be spared the perils of a close encounter with the current Limnititzker sage . |