Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she was relied on to be correct , so no-one disturbed her as she worked , her arthritic hands holding a stubby pencil , her long , old-fashioned mask covering her mouth as she murmured to herself . |
| 2 | ‘ As to the outside world , I now take just sufficient interest in what goes on to be thankful that , though I am deaf , I can vote . ’ |
| 3 | Whatever the specific features of the occupations chosen for study , samples tend uniformly to be male , or mostly male : this fact is hidden through the use of titles which purport to be describing work in general and the worker irrespective of gender . |
| 4 | Er at this stage I do n't think so to be honest with you because |
| 5 | In spite of everything : Mr Bishop 's death , the wrecked kiosk , she felt happy because Simon cared enough to be worried about her . |
| 6 | The obvious disadvantage here is the possibility of cold spots along the stitching and such bags tend only to be good for one or two season use . |
| 7 | Try to find an adult ( parent , youth leader , etc ) who you trust enough to be able to talk to about all of your friendships . |
| 8 | ‘ What it really boiled down to was immense immaturity in a grown man . |
| 9 | I was took on to be able to keep the written terms and conditions . |
| 10 | The former are considered by the council of ICAO to be necessary to help bring about the regularity and safety of air transport while the latter are considered merely to be desirable . |
| 11 | Speech is constrained by the situation in which it is produced and needs only to be appropriate to it . |
| 12 | Quiet changes in design appear only to be relevant to new areas , so that public debate and understanding is limited . |
| 13 | They appear only to be concerned with the present and future quality of the labour market and the need to have a better and more highly trained workforce . |
| 14 | Delight enough to be sure , but the pleasure was greatly amplified when it was recognized , almost immediately , that the harpsichord bore an uncommon resemblance to the instrument shown in the famous Mercier portrait of Handel ( see cover ) . |
| 15 | However , if you are editing in camera , and if your camcorder has a fade-button , it is quite practical to put the fades in as you go if you are organised enough to be able to pick the points at which they should come . |
| 16 | She added , by way of conversation , that she must wait patiently to be relieved of the burden of living . |
| 17 | I realized that I was having to struggle not to be nice to him . |
| 18 | Margery 's ‘ visions ’ appear not to be typical of those of more orthodox mystics . |
| 19 | My point , in this rough-and-ready example , is to isolate certain basic impulses which appear not to be dependent upon others . |
| 20 | The gorge walls , over 50 feet in places , came so close they nearly touched and , below , a river straight out of a canoeist 's toybox , not large by any standards but clean , powerful , unspoilt and appearing not to be reliant on heavy rainfall . |
| 21 | She pretended not to be disappointed and there for the moment the matter rested . |
| 22 | ‘ He pretended not to be interested , I dare say . |
| 23 | On feet that tried desperately to be silent , Belinda crept away , not stopping or turning round until she reached the looming mass of the house . |
| 24 | It would be simplistic and indeed inaccurate , however , to ascribe a single ‘ mood ’ to the workforce , although industrial relations are considered generally to be good as memories of last year 's conflict dim . |
| 25 | Probably the only piece of Macintosh software designed not to be WYSIWYG , although a preview version is now available , it allows real typesetting control to be exercised . |
| 26 | Lucy tried not to be pushy , and Josie slowly thawed . |
| 27 | As they drove up to the main door Louise tried not to be emotional . |
| 28 | And though they tried not to be sad as she had asked , many were in tears as they listened to the reading Kelly had chosen . |
| 29 | She tried to look at the thing calmly and sensibly , tried not to be aware of Deana and Sarah whispering at a table only a few yards distant , but felt too hurt and shocked to be rational . |
| 30 | Raven Thomson was deemed not to be insulting when he said at Bethnal Green in March 1937 that he had the utmost contempt for the Jews and that they were ‘ the most miserable type of humanity , ’ but an Inspector Jones was overruled when he reported that Mick Clarke had used no inflammatory language at the same venue in June 1937 , when other police shorthand notes stated that Clarke had called the Jews ‘ greasy Scum ’ and ‘ the lice of the earth ’ . |