Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book seems to be based on the techniques I have long suspected some producers use to keep a discussion going for the full length of a programme whether there is anything in it or not , to keep up the emotional temperature even about unexciting things , and to emit statements which are just distorted enough to get people objecting , whether they are worth objecting to or not . |
| 2 | For the abrupt , hasty manner of Pound 's criticism seems to some readers to carry the implication ( to which Pound in fact did not subscribe ) that no critic is worth listening to unless he has laboured at the maker 's workbench ; that all worthwhile criticism of stories comes from story-tellers , that only poets are worth listening to about poems . |
| 3 | Television may be much more popular than radio , but radio plays still deserve their place amongst the airwaves , and they are worth listening to . |
| 4 | These are for attaching to the erm , tabs . |
| 5 | ‘ We always end up losing some of the group during the factory tour because they are off chatting to old friends . ’ |
| 6 | Well sent off wi after I 'd been about beginning to be co you know , could e eat something , I had cups of tea , with a egg beat up that 's what I used to get when you got typhoid . |
| 7 | It is often said , for example , that the Indonesian island of Bali is ruined and that it has n't been worth going to since the 1930s , but to walk through a Balinese night breathing the warm silk of tropical air accompanied by the croaking of frogs and the distant gongs and gamelan music of a temple celebration is a magical experience . |
| 8 | he 's after , he 's been after trying to Captain the side |
| 9 | The promise follows reports that some Middlesbrough vice girls are considering moving to the town . |
| 10 | If you are considering talking to your child about HIV , think about : |
| 11 | As this Report has noted , people of other faiths or of no faith , as well as Christians , are used by God to mediate his gift of music , and those who are not believers are as capable as those who are of responding to the power of religious music . |
| 12 | Surinder , a Sikh woman , explained to me what it had been like coming to Britain in the sixties and finding a job in a sweat-shop soon after . |
| 13 | But perhaps the precise reasons for its origin and the timing of its confirmation are not so important ; of greater significance is that it became a key precedent during the ensuing century for those who wished to restrict the outflow of money from the English church to the church universal and in particular to the Roman Curia ; its appeal to the interests of patrons whose intentions were thwarted or impaired by impositions on the houses so that ‘ infinite loss and disinheritance are like to ensue to the founders of the said houses and their heirs ’ was to reappear in the later statute of Provisors . |
| 14 | ( The teams the players are with according to the DT . |
| 15 | To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs how many British diplomatic staff are stationed in Germany ; and what their responsibilities are with regard to human rights issues . |
| 16 | A marriage between foreign nationals from different countries and of different religions would have been difficult enough in settled times , but it was rendered much more complicated now by the fact that whatever my family 's record might have been with regard to the Fascist party , my mother , my father and I were enemy aliens who had just lost a war . |
| 17 | I 'm not even sure that his main pleasure has not been in proving to Madame Duvalle that he was right about me . |
| 18 | You 're no more interested in how a programme is put together than you are in flying to the moon ! ’ |
| 19 | He projected himself as a man who would be worth listening to . |
| 20 | He would , he would be worth listening to , I think . |
| 21 | If it turns out to be ‘ right ’ ( the trade term for ‘ genuine ’ ) , it will be worth sending to Geneva for sale . |
| 22 | Codron had gone up to Cambridge to see the show and knew then that it would be worth bringing to London . |
| 23 | If you do n't find any of the jobs you 've seen advertised appealing , it may well be worth writing to a company that you are interested in working for , but which has no vacancies that you know of . |
| 24 | D' ya think it might be worth writing to some of the and asking them to donate any paper plates ? |
| 25 | It might almost be worth coming to Court again . |
| 26 | The porter 's wife who let us in might be worth talking to . |
| 27 | ‘ It might be worth talking to him , if he 's still alive . |
| 28 | Might be worth talking to her . |
| 29 | The use of circling or underlining parts of their work , arrows to show how pieces of work connect , brainstorming , asterisks to show things which may be worth returning to , parts of diagrams abandoned as a result becomes clear , and other messy ways of working may need to be encouraged if people are used to hiding their rough work or throwing it away . |
| 30 | ‘ That 's why I think it would be worth going to New York . ’ |