Example sentences of "be [adj] in [pron] [noun pl] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Tories have been unsuccessful in their attempts to focus public attention on a range of other matters of varying importance , including Europe , defence , the Falklands , the trades unions , immigration — not forgetting moments of tactical madness such as the party 's press conference on animal welfare . |
| 2 | If they are serious in their intentions to offer the insights in the arts to which pupils have a right , then the latter should be able to expect a well considered programme , to achieve which requires extensive teacher preparation of which INSET is a part . |
| 3 | The management at the Hawthorne plant had been frustrated in their efforts to raise production in a section where electrical assemblies were wired up — the so-called Bank Wiring Room — and the researchers were called in to try to resolve this problem . |
| 4 | But the moment alone was enough to prove that the Soviet authorities are sincere in their efforts to resolve the riddle of a romantic , mythical figure who single-handedly saved the lives of tens of thousands of Jews in wartime Budapest before disappearing for ever , at the start of 1945 , into the darkness of Stalin 's Russia . |
| 5 | We need the Government to be assiduous in its attempts to eliminate the obstacles that hinder companies ' ability to compete effectively in the international environment . |
| 6 | Knowledge and understanding of them can thus be helpful in our efforts to understand what is happening when flows become turbulent ( although as we shall see in Sections 24.6 and 24.7 , the extent to which the new ideas ‘ solve the problem of turbulence ’ can be — and has been — overstated . ) |
| 7 | Some of these , such as Charles Worsley who controlled the north-west of the country , paid special attention to their moral duties and were untiring in their efforts to close down brothels , gaming-houses , and unlicensed ale-houses , and to prevent a whole range of popular recreations , including horse-racing , cock-fighting , and bear-baiting . |
| 8 | Soviet leaders were unsuccessful in their efforts to mobilise Asian states around the ill-defined principles of collective security . |
| 9 | It is unique in its opportunities to establish from the outset good habits in terms of expectations of parental involvement and willingness to participate in honest exchange about the child 's progress . |
| 10 | Miller 's imagery is heavy-handed in its efforts to startle , along the lines of ‘ he had his words copulate with one another to bring forth empires , scarabs , holy water , the lice of dreams and the dream of wounds ’ . |
| 11 | Normally the mildest of men , Frank had said : ‘ I 'd like some of those bastards who say the NHS is safe in their hands to spend a night in here . |
| 12 | Be active in your thoughts to counter the negative tendency , and if you think of rest and relaxation as recharging , you will see that there is something here to achieve ; it is not just a letting go . |
| 13 | Bush was careful in his proposals to avoid trespassing on traditional local and state responsibilities for education , assigning , for instance , a panel of administration officials and governors to develop the national tests . |
| 14 | Nizan was unsuccessful in his attempts to allay the suspicion that he did not really belong to the French communist party . |
| 15 | But the association was frustrated in its attempts to build larger schemes in the Waterside and in the North ward on the site of the old Birmingham Sound Reproducers factory . |