Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Christopher Gray , one of the small number of English members of the SI , is the third commentator I found to be not entirely sympathetic . |
| 32 | The first option was costed and found to be more expensive than the Garden could afford . |
| 33 | And then — as the aeons pass and the continents , oceans , mountain ranges and terrain all drift — why are not so many more migratory creatures found to be wildly adrift in their navigation ? |
| 34 | A lower compartment with a curved zipper offers easy and quick access to things like waterproofs or extra sweaters , and the main bag itself has a zip-out divider , which I found to be quite useful . |
| 35 | Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful . |
| 36 | Any tasks not completed by the due date on the ‘ to do list ’ can be automatically carried over to the reminders list , a facility I found to be very useful . |
| 37 | It was thought that the fastest look-up would be achieved using a 26-way tree , so that was implemented , and found to be extremely efficient , but the memory overhead was too large for practical purposes . |
| 38 | Through George Wigg I became reasonably close to Richard Crossman who consulted me on a number of occasions — I have already described the Spectator libel case — but who , I must confess , turned out to be a disappointment to me , since the reputation he had earned for more than occasional unreliability I found to be entirely justified . |
| 39 | The motion of the ionized spiral arms has been studied spectroscopically at both radio and infrared wavelengths and found to be highly organized . |
| 40 | ( After the war , when Collingwood was discovered by the younger generation , and found to be highly readable and stimulating , the situation was totally different , and the aging linguistic philosophers were obliged to start reading him in self-defence . ) |
| 41 | Gray 's comments evoke a kind of mystical disenchantment with the movement which he found to be too focused on an intellectual critique of society . |
| 42 | Marx 's arguments for this position , as elaborated in the ‘ Communist Manifesto ’ , were examined and found to be seriously problematic . |
| 43 | Arctic ozone found to be seriously depleted |
| 44 | In conclusion , joint problem-solving and the consultative sharing of expertise can maximise scarce existing resources and increase the capacity of teachers to meet the individual needs of all children ; stimulate teachers ' personal judgment and initiative as to the best educational ‘ therapies ’ open to them , raise their sights as to how to help all children , whatever their difficulties , to learn and to cope , how to offer them those ‘ good school experiences such as some form of success , accomplishment , sense of self-esteem or just pleasure in school activities ’ found to be so valuable even in later life ( cf Quinton and Rutter 1988 ) . |
| 45 | " But why was this particular spot found to be so favourable ? " |
| 46 | This was , in fact , found to be so and the results were interpreted to show that short term memory decayed after about 20 seconds . |
| 47 | Smith had a reputation for being devious and unreliable , which I found to be far from true . |
| 48 | The Thomas Harris referred to was closely associated with the composer , and his signature may be seen as witness to Handel 's will and to its first three codicils ; in the fourth and last codicil he actually becomes a beneficiary . |
| 49 | The ‘ driving offence or two ’ Trevor referred to was more serious . |
| 50 | Aye , the one that used to was poorly . |
| 51 | Thus A Very British Coup fails because , according to Pearce ‘ it wants to have it both ways ’ , and instead of ‘ owning up to being fantastic tosh , it tried to be incredibly realistic ’ ( Chris Tookey , The Sunday Telegraph , 26 June 1988 ) . |
| 52 | Simon is a devoted dad who always tried to be around as much as possible . |
| 53 | When her father died , I tried to be there for her . |
| 54 | The problem is that Taurus tried to be too nice to everyone and did n't tread too hard on the banks ’ toes . ’ |
| 55 | ‘ But we always tried to be more sympathetic than most , and went out of our way to work with the people who wanted to use our stuff . |
| 56 | I tried to be as patient as I could and I think David 's mother has realised for quite a long time that I was quite a good daughter-in-law to her ( although I was n't a daughter-in-law at that time ) but as a girl friend , I could understand her finding it obnoxious that her son brought some strange person into the house . |
| 57 | Helen had attended Dorothy and tried to be as patient as possible ; the doctors told her , privately , what to expect . |
| 58 | Everything went on as normal and I tried to be as pleasant as I could and as loving towards Anne as I had always been , but she must have noticed that a part of me was absent : simply somewhere else . |
| 59 | Aware that in 1987 the judiciary committee had rejected Robert M. Bork because of his ideological combativeness during confirmation hearings , Thomas tried to be as emollient as possible . |
| 60 | I tried to be as quiet as possible . ’ |