Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Good buys : Any duty free goods are worth purchasing either on board or in port . |
| 2 | We also have links with Lothian Region Careers Service who come to the Careers Convention and who also interview pupils who are considering going straight into employment when they leave school . |
| 3 | Drugs movies such as Naked Lunch and My Own Private Idaho seem in many ways to play deliberately on the similarities between drug experience and watching a film : both of these are clearly just as much concerned with seeing wonderful things in the dark as they are with falling apart under pressure . |
| 4 | I do not myself think that this alternative is correct , but it would be worth putting forward in court . |
| 5 | If you have any doubts about your ability to fix a burst pipe , a storm-damaged roof , or a boiler that does on the blink , it may be worth signing up for Homercare , the new 24-hour emergency repair and assistance service from Europ Assistance . |
| 6 | Her dreams at these times were of running headlong down streets and staircases , into cellars where the roof and walls closed in on her . |
| 7 | Those next four weeks were like lying out in no-man's-land . |
| 8 | Half the stuff on the album is about growing up in Birmingham in the '70s but half of it is about '90s subjects like ‘ Livin' On The Streets ’ and ‘ Fish And Chips ’ , which is about going to clubs . |
| 9 | Workfare is about doing away with jobs , employers will want to substitute workfare for real jobs , reducing still further the number of people in work , increasing still further the poverty and misery suffered by millions in Britain today . |
| 10 | This piece is about coming out in Dublin in the early seventies . |
| 11 | It is worth looking closely at Milton Keynes to see that planning need not , any more , mean trying to design every dot and comma of people 's lives . |
| 12 | It is worth looking again at Pound 's letter to Michael Roberts , strident though it is . |
| 13 | Jupiter is the planet of increase , which is worth considering not in terms of financial and material improvements but in the expansion of your awareness and self-understanding — an expansion which will lead to better things in the future . |
| 14 | A detour to Red Point is worth making only in conditions of exceptionally clear visibility ; in dull or misty weather , it is a fruitless exercise . |
| 15 | This is why it is worth finding out in advance what type of herb it is . |
| 16 | It requires a lot of hard talking to go abroad to film these days : the main justification is for filming out of season — this is sometimes essential , but can often be avoided by good planning . |
| 17 | Silicon Graphics Inc , Mountain View , is not commenting on a report in the New York Times that it is considering teaming up with Time Warner Inc to develop hardware for interactive television . |
| 18 | A FREIGHT firm is considering pulling out of Stansted Airport and using East Midlands Airport , at Castle Donington , instead . |
| 19 | The old certainties that ruled computer industry analysis over the past 30 years are tumbling like autumn leaves , and commercial realities are now eating away at the traditional determination of Japanese companies to forget the bottom line and stick with major product sectors for the long term : Sony Corp says it is considering pulling out of Japan 's competitive word processor market to save the cost of developing and manufacturing new models , Reuter reports from Tokyo ; Sony began making word processors in 1985 and production reached a peak of 10,000 a month ; NEC Corp , Toshiba Corp , Fujitsu Ltd and Sharp Corp now dominate the market and Sony currently makes just 500 of the things a month , a drop in the 1992 market ocean of 2.6m machines . |
| 20 | Going into North Road station is like stepping back in time . |
| 21 | ‘ In a way it 's like going back to square one , and starting from scratch again , but it 's what we have to do . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Blackburn 's like going back in time , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Deputy chief executive of the FHSA , Martin Lawn , said the real drain on resources is in providing up to £300,000 each year to help fundholders computerise their records — money which is presently not refunded by the regional health authority . |
| 24 | The BRC squad includes Rodney Wilson and David Webb who both learnt their rowing at Methodist College and continued at Queen 's before moving up to BRC . |
| 25 | ‘ While our competitors play only ten records an hour we can play at least 14 , and that 's without losing out on speech areas like news , interviews and DJ input . ’ |
| 26 | The first one is by reacting directly with carbon . |
| 27 | Provided that iron contains some carbon , introduced by carburisation ( heating under charcoal ) , it can be hardened by quenching , that is by cooling rapidly in oil or water . |
| 28 | It was worth getting back to Paul 's route for it soon brought us to Hardy 's birthplace , a small thatched cottage just outside Higher Bockhampton . |
| 29 | Labour 's preoccupation in future will be to begin the long task of reconverting such people to the view many of them held in Clement Attlee 's day : that it was worth paying more in tax to produce better public services and a more just postwar society . |
| 30 | It was like stepping backwards in time . |