Example sentences of "be [prep] [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would have been worth overcoming your natural repugnance . ’ |
| 2 | I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid . |
| 3 | So I can not claim to be an expert , but I have been considering spending my own money on America this year . |
| 4 | PUPILS at a private boarding school are considering employing their own workers as their ‘ mini-enterprise ’ becomes too large to handle . |
| 5 | SAGITTARIUS You are into doing your own thing at the moment and exploring your own creativity . |
| 6 | She could have walked past her a dozen times and never even noticed her , so intent had she been in enjoying her own experience , so wrapped up in the ambience that Rune had encouraged with his own participation of the pleasures around them . |
| 7 | Of course , but there is always the problem of deciding how successful Stravinsky the conductor has been in realizing his own score . |
| 8 | The paint stains on his Levi 's are from decorating his new baby 's nursery . |
| 9 | Wimbledon without him will be like having its famous strawberries — without cream . |
| 10 | But , then again , it does do a good thing , and I would n't be against giving them some support , |
| 11 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 12 | The purpose was to discover precisely how important qualifications were in determining their occupational chances . |
| 13 | Jonathan Scott , Chairman of the Reviewing Committee on the Export of Works of Art has produced another of his elegantly written reports on how successful or otherwise Britain has been at retaining its preeminent works of art : the tally , eighteen out of forty-four retained — that is , a public institution or , in the case of the Delander stick barometer , a private citizen , has matched the price at which the item was being exported . |
| 14 | It 's worth contacting your local County Council Planning Department for more information . |
| 15 | Status is about using your personal power to gain recognition from others . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's for despising your own life , fool , ’ he said calmly , ‘ Learn to kill like a reasoning man when you must , not like a woman crazed with spite . ’ |
| 17 | Before launching , it is worth setting yourself some objectives . |
| 18 | It is worth emphasizing its major difference from the structuralism of the sixties and seventies : whereas this later structuralism is mainly interested in the structure of literature as a whole , to the extent that this too can be viewed as a system of signs , the Prague School version took as its main object the structure of the individual text and , like the later Formalists , viewed the individual text as a system . |
| 19 | Sheldon Krimsky 's book stems from this study , but in the light of the other books devoted to this same goal that have appeared over the past five years , it is worth considering what Genetic Alchemy adds to previous efforts . |
| 20 | If you do rely on a friend or neighbour on a fairly relaxed and informal basis it is worth showing them some appreciation occasionally , a return of favours or a thoughtful gift . |
| 21 | It is worth noting what that convention says . |
| 22 | Whatever the weather , when Rosemary gets back home she wo n't be on land for long at the end of the month she 's off doing her first stint at white water rafting ! |
| 23 | ‘ It 's about terrorizing my little sister , ’ replied Ethel . |
| 24 | I am ecstatic about this , it is like winning my first cap not my 23rd . ’ |
| 25 | " You kill a priest , " Sam muttered as they rowed away , " it 's like killing your own father . " |
| 26 | They then used bogus invoices to fool Lloyd 's into covering their alleged losses , before carrying out the second stage of a ‘ double sting ’ stealing £1.2 million of the £1.8 million insurance pay-out from their company , London-based Inca Gemstones . |
| 27 | The difficulty is in knowing what local opinion really has to say on these matters . |
| 28 | Ben Kingsley plays Martin Boyns , a middle-aged engineer at the turn of the century who feels that life has passed him by , and his one chance of happiness is in marrying his longtime friend , Rose Sellars ( Kim Novak ) . |
| 29 | P.B. Yes , the trouble is in doing it that way Bob , you invariably do some damage to yourself . |
| 30 | This is without boosting his monthly payments at all for ten years . |