Example sentences of "and [vb past] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This set Jean Powers off on a torrent of exclamations and denials so that Helen could not have got a word in had she wished to ; she stood and looked at Giles Carnaby and tried to be calm . |
| 32 | This demand system can be derived by maximizing the following aggregate profits function Γ for farmers with respect to Q 1 and Q 2 : where the aggregate production function for farmers is defined as : It is important to note that , for simplicity , the aggregate production function is of quadratic form and assumed to be homothetic , no inputs other than the two forms of fertilizers are considered , and the farmers ' output prices have been normalized to one . |
| 33 | There do seem to be some concerns which recur throughout the interviews and seemed to be crucial to people 's views about decision-making in the education and lives of young disabled people . |
| 34 | Chiodini had slumped forward on his newspaper and seemed to be asleep . |
| 35 | Danny the youngest had settled down in his job as a lighterman and seemed to be popular with the local girls . |
| 36 | The chaplain called our office a few days later and seemed to be open to information offered regarding preparation for Todd 's First Communion . |
| 37 | Then , as Moore stood with a third book in his hand , ready to throw , the rat squeaked and seemed to be afraid . |
| 38 | Bacteriophages appeared to be harmless to man , and seemed to be promising therapeutic agents of revolutionary importance . |
| 39 | It was dark and seemed to be empty . |
| 40 | By the sixth week , Charlie could strip and clean a rifle almost as quickly as Tommy , but it was his friend who turned out to be a crack shot and seemed to be able to hit anything that moved at two hundred yards . |
| 41 | Below the sandstones there is a thick sequence of tuffs and lavas , already referred to and believed to be Lower Permian . |
| 42 | As early as September 1953 Eisenhower was to be found ruminating , " Abroad we and our intentions are suspect because we are known to be big and wealthy , and believed to be impulsive and truculent . " |
| 43 | Forbes ' verses and caricatures became famous , and came to be typical of a kind of hearty humour forming a part of scientific meetings of the nineteenth century . |
| 44 | Ironically , it was at this time that Ezra Pound , who had been arrested and imprisoned for treason , was examined by four prominent psychologists and judged to be insane . |
| 45 | Announced were : a new , and supposedly high-performant and OLTP friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with backup , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 46 | Announced were a new , and supposedly high-performant and transaction processing-friendly version of its database engine , SQL Server ; enhanced versions of the Open Client and Open Server offerings , plus the Embedded SQL for SQL C , Cobol and Ada precompilers ; and new and enhanced control servers , the technology Sybase argues customers need to control distributed applications , Sybase Backup Server ( with back-up , loading and recovery facilities , database consistency checking three times faster than in the previous release , and bulk loading of data — now capable of loading up to 1Gb an hour , and claimed to be seven times faster . |
| 47 | There is thus a clear case for reform and change , more or less radical according to different diagnoses , in the very area of political institutions and conventions where the principle of democracy is allowed and claimed to be operative . |
| 48 | In the village of Debenham there was an old bee-keeper who regularly talked to his bees and claimed to be able to interpret their response by the pitch of their buzzing . |
| 49 | Sir Edward Boyle , probably the most gifted and perceptive Conservative Education Minister of the post-war years , appreciated that for schools to flourish teachers need to be kept abreast of good practice and encouraged to be responsive to the findings of contemporary research . |
| 50 | It was only as the day wore on that we wearied of the journey and began to be afraid . |
| 51 | I took no part and declined to be drawn-4.30 Returned to King and ‘ kissed hands ’ . |
| 52 | She was sixty-five years old and confessed to being fifty . |
| 53 | ‘ It 's a very long way , dear , and bound to be boggy at this time of year . |
| 54 | It is therefore a significant achievement and bound to be considerable commercial value . |
| 55 | 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 . |
| 56 | In a split second he made his mind up and decided to be decisive . |
| 57 | This means not only that those procedures are seen and felt to be fair . |
| 58 | The men in the technical crew , unpaid , were earning their way by filming the fiesta for the B.B.C. The Bedouins , whom Cecil cared for and saw to be poor , were being paid in private out of Cecil 's own pocket . |
| 59 | ‘ This is a bleak chamber in our watering place which is yet called the Assembly Rooms and understood to be available on hire for balls or concerts , and , some few seasons since , an ancient gentleman came down who said that he had danced there in bygone ages with the Honourable Miss Peepy , well known to have been the Beauty of her day and the cruel occasion of innumerable duels . ’ |
| 60 | She says it 's a joyous occasion , this little girl was born one hundred years ago and grew to be one of the most renowned writers of her generation . |