1. She was at pains to stress the benefits of the scheme.

2. She was at pains to point out that she was no newcomer to the area.

3. Roy was at pains to point out that English was the only exam he'd ever failed.

4. She is at pains to point out how much work she has done.

5. Mobil is at pains to point out that the chances of an explosion at the site are remote.

6. I have been at pains to emphasize the positive aspects of discipline.

7. She is at pains to stress the cultural differences between the two countries.

8. I was at pains to show how and why.

9. Officials were at pains to point out that it was focused on resolving border disputes and promoting trade.

10. All three writers are at pains to stress the unquantifiable advantages of purchase as against borrowing.

11. Tonight he certainly seemed at pains to play the perfect host.

12. Mrs Henessy was at pains to say that she was fighting for a principle, not just for financial compensation.

13. These he is at pains to hide in order to promote the fiction of his rise from rags to riches.

14. He is at pains to stress that conflict, another cause of poverty, resolves nothing.

15. Designers have been at pains to ensure the Cornmill is not just a covered shopping mall.

16. The U.S. military has been at pains not to offend its Muslim host.

17. You can't do, not when you've been at pains to tell me what rubbish all this astrological mumbo-jumbo is.

18. They are at pains to insist that they are not called to be a denomination.

19. She was at pains to tell me - several times - that her male friends were divided into two groups.

20. He was at pains to find out the truth.

21. We at pains to learn English well.

22. The Obama Administration has at pains to sell today's kickoff meeting of the U.

23. She was at pains to get him the things to eat that he liked.

24. So they strive to earn money and are at pains to collect all kinds of books.

25. The Obama Administration has at pains to sell today's kickoff meeting of the U.S.

26. In a sense this was false, as recent historians have been at pains to prove.

27. Writers in the early art and photographic journals were at pains to define its precise meaning.

27. try its best to collect and make good sentences.

28. A year on they acknowledge the problems, but are at pains to defend the good name of their community.

29. This is a misconception that forest ecologists have for years been at pains to correct, but to little avail.

30. She taught in a racially mixed school and was at pains to correct simple stereotypes and unthinking prejudices.

31. Do more than others expect you to do and do it at pains.

32. He was at pains to say how sorry he was.

33. Keane was Liverpool's best player against PSV Eind hoven in the Champions League on Tuesday night and afterwards was at pains to point out that leaving is the furthest thing from his thoughts.

34. Her mother was at pains to make clear to him that in marrying Julia he would be acquiring a pearl of great price.

35. DO more that others expect you to do and do it at pains.

36. They had been at pains to examine all the statistics.

37. But Dr Steven Le Comber, an evolutionary biologist at Queen Mary college, University of London, is at pains to point out scientists don't always make bad movie-going partners.