Example sentences of "[pers pn] be at pain " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moreover , as a resident of Edinburgh , and a fervent rugby supporter , I am at pains to understand how the Twickenham experiences described in the article are excluded from the ‘ civilised ’ experiences to be gained at other Five Nations venues . |
| 2 | I think that the skills and interest we develop in our young graduates these days are very much wider ranging and they 're reflected into the great variety of jobs into which you go , and erm frequently in talking to young people about geography I 'm at pains to say well we 're really rather a useless subject , but we do give insights into a lot of sorts of problems and erm these lead in many directions . |
| 3 | I was at pains to show how and why . |
| 4 | And , unlike most story-tellers with an involvement , I was at pains to minimise my own part ; the last thing I did was boast . |
| 5 | In A Grammar of Metaphor she is at pains to show that in English poetry the relation of the verb metaphor to its proper term is weak and less important than its relation to its subject and objects : ‘ when a verb is metaphoric , its adaptability to the noun is so great that its relationship to it is direct , and much stronger than its relationship to the action it is ‘ replacing ’ ' ( 1958a:209 ) . |
| 6 | She was at pains to tell me — several times — that her male friends were divided into two groups . |
| 7 | At the same time , she was at pains to attempt a type series from the site , an idea started hopefully by Bushe-Fox at Wroxeter . |
| 8 | In the article she was at pains to point out why they had to stay out of England until the following April , ‘ not because of tax ’ , she insisted , ‘ but in case either of us drops dead , which would mean the company having to be broken up ’ . |
| 9 | Mrs. Campbell hoped that a tide waiter 's post might be found for the man , but there was more to it than charity , for , as she advised her cousin , William Anderson 's brother was a rich baker who had lately filled the office of deacon convener of trades in Stirling , and ‘ as he has a near connection with severalls in the present management I wish if possible you could fall on a way to get this small thing for him , it wou 'd make a noise amongest the folks to see that we are at pains to do for them ’ . |
| 10 | Finally , we are at pains to stress that , despite all the arrows in Figure 1.2 , we do not believe that human actions and beliefs are mechanistically determined . |
| 11 | It saw itself as primarily a teaching institution and Lindop underlined that ‘ we are at pains to ensure that we recruit staff who share our view of the primacy of teaching ’ , and the Polytechnic was requiring new and inexperienced staff to attend an in-service training programme of about 250 hours in their first year . |
| 12 | ‘ We 're at pains to stress this is n't a protest , but we were here for rest and recreation , ’ he said , ‘ so if I ca n't send my men ashore ; there 's not much point in staying . ’ |
| 13 | They are at pains to insist that they are not called to be a denomination . |
| 14 | Erm the point that they were at pains to make as well was that erm that because of the low cost nature of these homes erm the charge for a mortgage would actually be less than er , is is common in a charge for most association properties with similar sites erm in terms of rent . |
| 15 | They were at pains to prove that moral or immoral development was not fixed or inevitable , for all the evolutionary stress on inherited characteristics . |
| 16 | Anxious to deny any significant revolutionary input , they were at pains to resist any suggestion that machine breaking could have had any links with a revolutionary political movement . |
| 17 | But he is at pains to stress that it is not philosophical knowledge , not true science . |
| 18 | These he is at pains to hide in order to promote the fiction of his rise from rags to riches . |
| 19 | He is at pains to stress that conflict , another cause of poverty , resolves nothing . |
| 20 | Even though Luke is not trying to answer the question , ‘ What happened ? ’ , he is at pains to set his account in a historical setting . |
| 21 | He is at pains to assure us that he will do so We are privileged to share in these Machiavellian plans ( the word ‘ reach ’ has such connotations : ‘ overreach ’ is when the Machiavel attempts too much ) , and we see them fulfilled in the brilliant wooing scene that follows . |
| 22 | ALTHOUGH Mr David Mellor 's new role as Secretary for National Heritage has been caricatured as Minister of Fun or Minister for Free Tickets , he was at pains yesterday to emphasise more serious aspects of his task ahead . |
| 23 | However , here he was at pains to point out that ‘ although this work was intended for an appendix to the Gardeners Dictionary , yet it may be reckoned a complete performance in itself independent to that ’ . |
| 24 | He was at pains to point out that he had lived in Ambleside since 1800 and therefore knew the region intimately . |
| 25 | Again and again he was at pains to demonstrate to Theo that he did n't live idly on his brother 's money . |
| 26 | First he was at pains to deny opium 's power to intoxicate , asserting that the drug produced a static , ‘ chronic pleasure ’ lasting perhaps ten hours . |
| 27 | And two days later , in a public statement , he was at pains to make clear that he does not believe in ‘ White majority-rule ’ any more than black . |
| 28 | Mr the headmaster has recently applied to Paul 's present local authority London Borough of Merton for a classroom assistant for Paul for thirty hours per week he does not know whether he will get that or a lesser number of hours or none at all , he was repeatedly , in my view quite rightly , extremely reluctant to express any view about what the outcome of his application maybe , but , rather force time is to which we have to guess , his guess was that ten hours might be afforded but he was at pains to emphasize that that was pure guess work . |
| 29 | He was at pains to explain why his election promises to lower middle-class taxes had actually turned 180 degrees . |