Example sentences of "have been at pains " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anthropologists have been at pains to stress the variety of accepted institutional arrangements which regulate the relations between the sexes in different societies . |
| 2 | In fact Labour governments ( in 1965 and 68 ) have been at pains to prove that they are just as good at keeping out the blacks as the Tories . |
| 3 | So far I have been at pains to make a clear distinction between these two modes . |
| 4 | I have been at pains to emphasize the positive aspects of discipline . |
| 5 | Mr Aldous and his senior partners have been at pains to ensure that this danger has been minimised at Robson Rhodes . |
| 6 | The present owners run the High Rocks Inn and its grounds as a commercial enterprise , and local climbers have been at pains to create a harmonious relationship between themselves and the owners . |
| 7 | Indeed , the companies have been at pains to demonstrate the technology 's feasibility : the CeBit show saw a demonstration of isoEnet in action on NatSemi 's stand and it has published a White Paper on it . |
| 8 | In a sense this was false , as recent historians have been at pains to prove . |
| 9 | But the reaction of the most senior members of the judiciary — the Law Lords , the Lord Chief Justice and the Master of the Rolls — was felt by many of the general public , I believe , to conflict with the image which the judiciary have been at pains to promote . |
| 10 | The writers who have developed the systems approach , however , have been at pains to emphasise that organisations should not be viewed merely as closed systems ; to do this is to adopt a very static picture of how they operate ( Elliott , 1980 ) . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , as we have been at pains to argue , to do so would be only to impose our own interpretation of reality on the reader . |
| 12 | During their 2 year study of the site , Thames Water have been at pains to co-operate with local action groups , but environmentalists say they 've been misled about the plans for the reservoir . |
| 13 | Designers have been at pains to ensure the Cornmill is not just a covered shopping mall . |