Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] [pron] to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kerry Court that he was now prepared to allow himself to be sent back . |
| 2 | The second — much less scientific — is that the arguments put forward in popular potboilers supporting such a notion are in general so specious that one is embarrassed to allow oneself to be associated with them . |
| 3 | It is then physically impossible to position yourself to be able to extend your arm down the hole to grip the rabbits . |
| 4 | It is possible that wise Neanderthal men and women were only too delighted to allow themselves to be killed and eaten , on the basis that their souls would live on in newly inhabited bodies . |
| 5 | But it is dangerous to allow yourself to be taken away from the clients . |
| 6 | To some extent , the Commission could be so active because the national governments , through the Council of Ministers , had been content to allow it to be so . |
| 7 | For Fedorov was still supposed to believe him to be lying in the mud at the bottom of the Danube . |
| 8 | He argued that since there was evidence of market failure ( Chapter 2 ) and public sector failure ( Chapter 3 ) it was logical to expect there to be room for a third kind of organisation that served purposes which public and market institutions failed to do . |
| 9 | If something is advertised and sold as a hover-mower , is it reasonable to expect it to be used as a hedge-trimmer ? |
| 10 | It was sad for me , I thought , that I was the only girl in the world sufficiently stupid to permit herself to be sacrificed to his vanity . |
| 11 | And when the King thought it a fit season , he spake to him and said , that Doña Ximena Gomez , the daughter of the Count whom he had slain , had come to ask him for her husband , and would forgive him her father 's death ; wherefore he besought him to think it good to take her to be his wife , in which case he would show him great favour . |
| 12 | In amphisbaenians , well adapted to their burrowing lives , with vestigial or non-existent limbs and much reduced eyes , the skull is very heavily ossified and box-like to enable it to be rammed through the soil , and so the orbitosphenoid is a thick plate of bone . |
| 13 | I have watched student teachers attempting dramatic role plays of the Vikings , only to come unstuck with parts for girls ; not really able to encourage them to be raped or pillaged , the only alternative is , as one student hastily improvised , for them to be ‘ Viking wives at home ’ . |
| 14 | But if they had n't been there , if they had been different kinds of men erm , I do n't think I would have been able to pick someone to be my husband or my partner who could be a decent father to my kids . |
| 15 | In principle , one could have expected to see a list of such bodies appended as a Schedule to the Act , but the Lord Chancellor , with all his ‘ numerous and talented counsellors ’ , was unable to cause one to be drawn up . |
| 16 | His father having died when he was four , Morel was raised by his mother , who quarrelled with her French relatives , changed her name to Deville , and taught English and music so as to be able to send him to be educated at Madras House , Eastbourne , and Bedford Modern School , until her failing health forced his return to Paris at the age of fifteen to obtain paid employment in a bank . |
| 17 | And rather alarmingly in a third , she lay flat on the balustrade of the gallery with one leg pointing towards a portrait of the Duke of Wellington who , with Lord Palmerston , was one of the few statesmen whose private life had been sufficiently scandalous to qualify him to be a ffeatherstonehaugh hero . |
| 18 | Auction houses have an obligation to the vendor and are unlikely to allow anything to be sold for less than cost . |
| 19 | And it was a year in which we were able to declare ourselves to be a good research and teaching university . |
| 20 | To her astonishment , Sally-Anne , who for two dreadful months had hardly been able to bring herself to be near any man , however young and apparently innocuous , wanted to stroke the corner of his mouth — more , she wanted to smooth the scar away — or , rather , since that was impossible , to run her hand down it and tell him that it did not matter , such a thing could only disturb those who were themselves already disturbed ! |
| 21 | BP ran into some rough weather in 1992 but the company is too strong and resilient to allow itself to be blown off course by the recent squalls . |
| 22 | Some of the larger firms of surveyors produce property indices , but the statistical sample is probably too small to enable them to be reliable . |
| 23 | In Puritan homes in which novels were banned , and in Evangelical homes where they were banned on Sundays , generations of children , often skipping the doctrinal dialogue , have been fascinated and excited to imagine themselves to be Christian and Christiana , never knowing what adventures they will find around the next corner and confident that there will be a happy ending . |
| 24 | MAS procedures when associated with an Information memorandum containing projections should be sufficient to enable us to be satisfied that the vendor has not recklessly included information which it does not have reasonable grounds to believe is correct . |
| 25 | Ramsay was in two minds as to whether it was wise to allow himself to be bottled up in the town when his place arguably was with the Regent ; but he decided that he might possibly play a more useful part here as Seton 's assistant — and he ought to be able to escape by boat , at night , if necessary . |