The performance of the host, _________ to please the audience and draw their attention, was greeted with a cold silence, however.
American women were _____ the right to vote until 1920 after many years of hard struggle.
Roses are quite _____ flowers in English gardens.
The illness from which Mary is suffering has now been _____ as hepatitis (肝炎).
A completely new situation is likely to _____ when the school leaving age is raised to 16.
I must go now. _____, if you want that book I'll bring it next time.