Example sentences of "[vb past] to [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | He tried to be nice to me but something rebelled inside me . |
| 4 | I took my friendly Spanish grammar to the library every day and tried to be polite to Jefferson when he maddened me at meals . |
| 5 | You cared about other people and tried to be kind to them , even though they were strangers you would probably never meet again . |
| 6 | According to InfoCorp figures believed to be close to the mark , it installed 10,000 units its first year in the business , giving it the number one slot in that market . |
| 7 | Her Majesty 's Inspectorate recently published a study of the Danish folkeskole , one of a series highlighting various aspects of foreign education systems believed to be relevant to British practice . |
| 8 | Strata believed to be equivalent to the Upper Palaeozoic Altagoan and Iniscarn Sandstone formations of the adjacent Cookstown ( 27 ) sheet were mapped in the vicinity of Draperstown . |
| 9 | The dismissals , believed to be traceable to members backing out of their combined $3.5m pledge to continue funding the operation , leave president Tom Mace , technical vice-president Andy Silverman , operations manager Claudia Marshall , and a secretary , in place . |
| 10 | In an experiment carried out at Palmer Station on the Antarctic Peninsula in 1989 , microscopic floating ocean plants ( phytoplankton ) were taken from the nearby bay and brought into the laboratory , where they were subjected to levels of ultra-violet radiation estimated to be equivalent to the amount of ultra-violet being transmitted through the ozone hole which has been developing in Antarctica each spring in recent years . |
| 11 | But his general gist seemed to be close to his lordship 's , concluding with a call for a freezing of German reparation payments and the withdrawal of French troops from the Ruhr region . |
| 12 | At time of NME going to press , the situation in the charts was still ongoing , but the MAS campaign seemed to be close to striking its first blow with the new HOLLY JOHNSON single hovering around the Top 100 . |
| 13 | Always Poshekhonov seemed to be close to him . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Patients attending hospital clinics had worse glycaemic control , but this seemed to be attributable to the case mix and practice characteristics . |
| 16 | It seemed to be essential to her sense of identity , but I was finding it wearisome . |
| 17 | In spite of their success they seemed to be vulnerable to extirpation in a way that some of the less imaginative molluscs , like the bivalves seemed to be immune . |
| 18 | As soon as the urban context is broken down even into such crude categories as social class , age or ‘ interests ’ , processes which seemed to be peculiar to particular urban areas turn out to be determined by other factors . |
| 19 | The chaplain called our office a few days later and seemed to be open to information offered regarding preparation for Todd 's First Communion . |
| 20 | While Robyn was hesitating , the office began to fill up with men wearing drab suits and dull ties and with the pasty complexions that seemed to be common to everybody who worked in the factory . |
| 21 | When the child caught this later and went off her food , I found that tiny Marmite sandwiches handed over whilst I pushed the pram round Wood Green and along the New Yatt Road , seemed to be acceptable to the invalid . |
| 22 | The coffee in France always seemed to be superior to the coffee in England , and he had made it just right . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 25 | He claimed to be entitled to rectification of the register both as against the Hammonds and as against the building society . |
| 26 | The committee considered the ‘ offence ’ to be compounded when an answer claimed to be pursuant to an earlier reply ‘ but has only the most tenuous link with it , ’ she said . |
| 27 | But she was a kind-hearted girl and , besides , it always paid to be attentive to patients in the private wing . |
| 28 | Unfortunately when the gas began to be available to Southern Italy there was not sufficient consumer infrastructure and so Enel , the Italian electricity utility , was asked to use the surplus for electricity generation until the necessary distribution network is established . |
| 29 | He complained that the written reply ‘ purported to be pursuant to a written answer ’ to a Tory MP 's question last month , but that the original question ‘ did not mention prescription charge rates or increases ’ . |
| 30 | Just for a few minutes , she needed to be near to him . |