Example sentences of "and [vb past] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had known warmer climes and situations more civilized and now , in her old age , needed and expected to be warm . |
| 2 | Indeed , the West Indians originally thought that they had much in common with British people and expected to be able to identify with the British way of life ( PEP 1976 ) . |
| 3 | Pat had come to him and asked to be able to buy the shop — not with any money she had available at that time , but on a never-never basis , letting him have a share in the takings until the value of the business had been reached . |
| 4 | All companies were dismissive of the value of using professional translation agencies and sought to be self-sufficient ( either within own plant or through their international network ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | I never used to worry about getting fat , I supposed that 's one reason I did so much over-eating and got to be 13 ½ stone , which is massive when you 're 5ft 2ins ! |
| 8 | More recently , biofeedback treatment has been suggested and reported to be effective in about two thirds of patients . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 11 | The girls giggled and pretended to be unimpressed . |
| 12 | Of particular interest in this case is the fact that as part of a nutritional screen serum and red cell glutathione concentrations were measured and found to be low . |
| 13 | One reason for this may be the doctrine of corporate liability in English criminal law ( discussed in Chapter 4.3 , and found to be unsatisfactory ) ; in particular , it may be difficult to establish the fault necessary for manslaughter , although easier to secure a conviction under legislation on railways or merchant shipping . |
| 14 | This had already been tried and found to be unsatisfactory with the old Vigilant . |
| 15 | State 6 to State 4 — usually after a faulty item has been checked ( eg. cleaned ) and found to be good , but it is decided that no further data should be added to the item . |
| 16 | State 6 to state 4 — usually after a faulty item has been checked ( eg. cleaned ) and found to be good , but it is decided that no further data should be added to the item |
| 17 | In one study , patient anxiety was measured and found to be highest in the first 24 hours of a hospital stay ( Wilson-Barnett , 1978 ) . |
| 18 | Councillor talked about er spending levels and he may be interested to know that the N U T have done a recent survey of education spending and found to be sixty first out of a hundred L E A's surveyed , so that does n't quite stack up with some of his statistics . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Some parts of the blueprint will have been tried and tested , and found to be reliable . |
| 21 | The metal drawer was opened and found to be empty . |
| 22 | Clarke was later breathalysed and found to be three times over the legal limit for driving . |
| 23 | A test performed at a reputable clinic — and found to be positive — is checked by doing further test on the same sample using different methods to detect HIV antibodies . |
| 24 | If it claims to be true , it must be willing to show the areas in which the evidence for its claims can be examined and found to be true . |
| 25 | The woman was trapped in the car and found to be dead by emergency teams . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I took my friendly Spanish grammar to the library every day and tried to be polite to Jefferson when he maddened me at meals . |
| 28 | The garden gradually got all tangled and interesting and took a little longer to patrol since the other cats took advantage and tried to be clever , creeping in when they thought I would n't notice . |
| 29 | 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 ) . |
| 30 | You cared about other people and tried to be kind to them , even though they were strangers you would probably never meet again . |