Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The band , who promised to be massive after an effortless rise to the top during the Manchester thingy in 1990 , eventually became a figure of fun in the music Press . |
| 2 | The noise was intense , constant chatter , voices raised in argument , an air of expectancy , even tension , as everyone pretended to be involved in what was happening around them but secretly watched the great ones at the high table . |
| 3 | Sidney pretended to be upset about this — at least I think he was pretending — because he said to Uncle , ‘ A's not friends wi' thee now — thee 's parted wi' my white dog ’ . |
| 4 | Sheila , a year younger still , was too self-centred and bright ever to challenge authority on poor ground and she pretended to be sick in order to escape the tension of the day . |
| 5 | ‘ You did not speak about the Royal Academy if you pretended to be interested in modern art , ’ said one young critic . |
| 6 | Mr Stewart said one of the more ‘ involved and audacious ’ thefts took place when Gamble pretended to be interested in buying a Ford Escort XR3 from a Billingham garage . |
| 7 | Although Fred pretended to be surprised at my earnings I felt sure he knew what was going on all the time . |
| 8 | Then I looked at my watch , pretended to be surprised at the lateness of the hour , and dug both spurs into the flanks of the mule , hoping to God that a bullet would not follow my hasty departure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Customers will expect to pay more for a reputable brand , but they will also expect the price charged to be consistent with their perceptions of the product ; * the amount and style of advertising and sales promotion ( Promotion ) will influence the consumer 's perception of the product , which in turn must influence on-going company product and brand development activities ( Product ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | More recently , biofeedback treatment has been suggested and reported to be effective in about two thirds of patients . |
| 13 | This had already been tried and found to be unsatisfactory with the old Vigilant . |
| 14 | A statement of law which , although based on facts found to be relevant by the court , does not form the basis of the court 's decision , e.g. a dissenting speech in the Court of Appeal or House of Lords . |
| 15 | Anyone found to be susceptible to another serious heart attack can then be treated with drugs or with an electrical implant to regularise the heartbeat . |
| 16 | The ‘ artificial circumstance ’ of the theatre and of ‘ live ’ variety allowed some middle-class observers a safe glimpse into that ‘ tumult and promiscuity ’ which Arnold Bennett found to be typical of American hotel lobbies and which most respectable people took to be the hallmarks of the new city . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Firefighters formed a human chain to carry the four brothers to safety but they found to be dead at hospital . |
| 19 | The woman was trapped in the car and found to be dead by emergency teams . |
| 20 | For an exposure to a source found to be positive for HBsAg , the employee who has not previously been vaccinated should receive the hepatitis B vaccine series . |
| 21 | In other words , 67% of the urine samples found to be positive on culture were judged at the time of voiding to be clear . |
| 22 | By arranging the samples to be tested in a two-dimensional array , either physically or conceptually , pooling the samples in both columns and rows ( figure ) , and doing PCR on the pooled samples and those individual samples found to be positive by ‘ grid referencing ’ , it is possible to increase the efficiency of screening . |
| 23 | THE Government was accused yesterday of concocting a fudged list to gloss over the real dangers of microwave ovens found to be faulty in its own tests . |
| 24 | The outcome was variations between states in the relative importance of the class cleavage , which commentators found to be dominant in Great Britain ( e.g. Alford , 1963 ) but much weaker elsewhere ( Rose , 1974 ; Rose and Urwin , 1975 ; McAllister and Rose , 1984 ) . |
| 25 | He tried to be nice about it , but it was fairly obvious he did n't want me any more ; and truthfully , I did n't want him any more either , except in so far that I could n't bear that it should all have been for nothing — worse than nothing . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | He tried to be nice to me but something rebelled inside me . |
| 28 | I took my friendly Spanish grammar to the library every day and tried to be polite to Jefferson when he maddened me at meals . |
| 29 | Knowing this , Googol tried to be wry about his own feelings and eschewed any dandified garb such as Jaq now sported . |
| 30 | Mr Carey said : ‘ We submitted a bid which tried to be clear about the problems , and to arrive at a view of what is practicable , which disturbs MPs as little as possible , while giving the broadcasters what they want . |