Example sentences of "[is] [prep] [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | However you intend to use the sack , it 's worth trying on a few makes before buying . |
| 2 | Er , we have been in er organising these new seats , about the same time as the Labour government took in nineteen seventy eight , er I said that when I intervened upon him and I say it again it 's worth paying on the records , exactly the same pressures have been on us as were as on them . |
| 3 | She 's worth backing on her present form . ’ |
| 4 | Erm saying I 've got this gambling problem , I do n't know whether how much it 's worth betting on this . |
| 5 | ‘ Selling is about getting on the telephone , ’ Brown says , ‘ and using a variety of techniques involving charm , bullying and whatever else you can muster . |
| 6 | Pursuing the issue of the fieldworker 's social role , it is worth commenting on a very general and apparently reasonable assumption that the closer the fieldworker is matched to subjects in terms of various social attributes , the more successful he or she is likely to be . |
| 7 | Absence of status consciousness is worth commenting on further as an effect of national culture on scores . |
| 8 | NOW that the only poll that matters is tomorrow 's , it is worth reflecting on how worthless some of the recent commercial polls have been . |
| 9 | The connection between modern architecture and tyranny awaits its historian , but it is worth reflecting on the mentality of Le Corbusier and his acolytes before being too harsh on the servile Romanian architects who competed for Ceauşescu 's favour so that they could take charge of the vast projects he had in mind . |
| 10 | However , it is worth reflecting on another dimension of the law and order forces . |
| 11 | It is worth reflecting on the difference in approach on this question between Callenbach and FAST . |
| 12 | 1.55:IMPRESSIVE Mackeson winner Tipping Tim is worth opposing on an 8lb higher mark with the ground softer than he likes . |
| 13 | For the moment it is worth concentrating on the shared concern for speech which is typical of both the written arts and , increasingly , of sociology . |
| 14 | I am certain that it is worth concentrating on a fishery for several seasons . |
| 15 | No comment is worth making on this bizarre suggestion , except perhaps pointing out to Professor Drife that a beard is n't precisely the right analogy . |
| 16 | It is worth speculating on whether , from the locals ' point of view , the proliferation of village organizations reflects not so much a flourishing of community life as a symbol of its downfall . |
| 17 | This was only a small-scale study but the results are so striking that it is worth speculating on some of the possible causes of gender bias in the classroom . |
| 18 | My first clear memory is of sitting on the front of his horse as he galloped down a ploughed field , of the earth skittering and turning , and being safe in his arms . |
| 19 | My first memory is of sitting on a gravestone in that churchyard one cold , grey , December afternoon , looking out at the dark , flat , wild marshes divided by the black line of the River Thames , and listening to the rushing sound of the sea in the distance . |
| 20 | Flupper tells them its story : not just what happened , but also about what it is like to live on Positos VI PH . |
| 21 | Cuddling up to the Liberals is like leaning on candy floss . ’ |
| 22 | Cuddling up to the Liberals is like leaning on candy floss . ’ |
| 23 | Beecham said that any fool can conduct three concerts with an orchestra , but to go on improving is like going on a race track where it is possible to improve your time at first , but each new improvement involves great effort and often some danger . |
| 24 | Going to camp is like going on Pack holiday but everyone sleeps outside in tents . |
| 25 | I imagine they walked in silence for some way after that ; putting a new idea into someone 's imagination , even if that imagination belongs to the cleverest young Fellow of the very grandest college , is like turning on the television — it takes a little time for the set to warm up . |
| 26 | For a toddler , donning a padded ski suit and three layers of thermals is like putting on a straitjacket . |
| 27 | Binding off is like backstitching on the machine . |
| 28 | Lending money to someone who is unlikely to be able to pay back all their obligations is like betting on a probable loser : hardly a sensible way for a prudent lender to do business . |
| 29 | Opening the deep freeze is like standing on stage at the Palladium : there are that many eyes staring out at you . |
| 30 | Delighted ‘ We know what it 's like to fall on hard times . |