Example sentences of "and [verb] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initial conditions for the chemical constituents were taken from two-dimensional model results and adjusted to be consistent with recent observations . |
| 2 | The archdeacon in the king 's presence appointed his brother Richard to perform the duties of his Forest office in his place , and agreed to be responsible for him . |
| 3 | To the very end of his long life he continued to be consulted about these types of issues , and lived to be present at the Pan Anglican Congress of 1908 , at which so many of his ideals were acclaimed . |
| 4 | More recently , biofeedback treatment has been suggested and reported to be effective in about two thirds of patients . |
| 5 | JAMES SERVICE ( 1823–1899 ) emigrated to Melbourne in the 1840s and formed a large commercial firm ; he entered state politics and rose to be Premier of Victoria from 1883 to 1885 . |
| 6 | The village is the place to stay if you enjoy a relaxed , informal atmosphere and want to be close to all the activities . |
| 7 | Right , and there 's various pros and cons to be aware of . |
| 8 | ‘ Most of our customers are second time buyers who know what they want and expect to be able to just walk in and take it off the shelf like a can of beans , ’ he says . |
| 9 | This had already been tried and found to be unsatisfactory with the old Vigilant . |
| 10 | Its chemical composition was determined at the Rockefeller Institute in New York and found to be identical with the material synthesized at the Winthrop laboratories 3 years earlier . |
| 11 | The woman was trapped in the car and found to be dead by emergency teams . |
| 12 | The homology between the PPT element and the previously proposed sequence found in the type II sodium channel gene and proposed to be present in several neuronal genes . |
| 13 | I took my friendly Spanish grammar to the library every day and tried to be polite to Jefferson when he maddened me at meals . |
| 14 | I let him have his pet , but in the end I went and tried to be nice to him ( because I knew I must get him to send that letter ) . |
| 15 | You cared about other people and tried to be kind to them , even though they were strangers you would probably never meet again . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Danny the youngest had settled down in his job as a lighterman and seemed to be popular with the local girls . |
| 18 | The chaplain called our office a few days later and seemed to be open to information offered regarding preparation for Todd 's First Communion . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Committees are places where you can see people snoozing , picking their noses and pretending to be interested in subjects which are of no interest to them . |
| 21 | She was n't smiling but she was obviously being polite , nodding and asking questions and pretending to be interested in the answers . |
| 22 | It should be recognised that it is in the interests of all firms involved in the provision of financial services that regulation is adequate and seen to be adequate by investors , or custom will be lost for all concerned . |
| 23 | I shall return later to the possibility of seeing the inaccessibility in terms of a limitation of access between levels ( rather than between modules ) , but for the moment we can redescribe this retraining activity as the ability of the subject , at a given level ( the uppermost , of intending to walk , in this case ) , to retranslate an activity into a lower level , in such a way that the translation later becomes compiled ( in terms of the earlier distinction between compilation and translation ) and ceases to be accessible from the ‘ higher level ’ . |
| 24 | parodic-travestying literature introduces the permanent corrective of laughter , of a critique on the one-sided seriousness of the lofty direct word , the corrective of a reality that is always richer , more fundamental , and , most importantly , too contradictory and heteroglot to be fit into a high straightforward genre … . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The burst of social legislation prior to 1914 was possible only within a context in which the most obvious social evils of the day , such as the poverty caused by old age , sickness and unemployment , had been identified and shown to be amenable to State action . |
| 27 | Reserves are known to be low in Sudan , and thought to be low in Ethiopia . |
| 28 | Researchers in Birmingham and Aarhus in Denmark have found a protein called LMP , produced by the virus and thought to be involved in the cancer , in cells from about half of a sample of 84 tumours from patients with Hodgkin 's disease . |
| 29 | Emphasis is put on speed range control , mastering emergency procedures and getting to be familiar with use of engine , propeller and the pressurisation . |
| 30 | It is hoped , nevertheless , that this will encourage students of accounting and finance to be bold in pursuing connections between their own subject and others involved in the study of management . |