Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [verb] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has important implications which are worth considering more closely . |
| 2 | They are worth mentioning here only because they are interesting . |
| 3 | I fully accept that if I want to know everything a top luthier knows then I should go away and make a serious study of the subject , but I would be quite happy to read a dedicated magazine each month from which I can learn about what 's new , who 's up to what , what new guitars are like to play etc. etc. and also the meaning of the industry 's technical terminology . |
| 4 | The way we see it , they both did a runner and they 've been in hiding ever since . ’ |
| 5 | A room that British civil servants moan about but defend the way New Yorkers do New York because it shows how unique they are in coping so splendidly in such surroundings . |
| 6 | Another thing that might be worth doing as well I mean do n't make it too complicated we ought to about which things to put in . |
| 7 | At that time it was paying £3 per fathom but the vein did not prove to be worth following very far . |
| 8 | I just wonder whether you realise what you 're taking on — what it would really be like to live up here . ’ |
| 9 | MB 's is wearing clothes that do not fit in the first example eg. This time he refers to the good opinions that people have of him as new clothes and killing the king would be like throwing away hardly worn clothes . |
| 10 | Yet , in October 1987 , in the post ‘ Strangeways ’ scramble , Andy Rourke , Mike Joyce and , to a lesser extent , Craig Gannon , were beginning to realise that life after The Smiths would be like starting over again . |
| 11 | I think black music and dance have given a lot of kids a break , but I 'd like to see the kind of dance I 'm into opened up just as much . ’ |
| 12 | From opposite ends of England the academics said that this was a born teacher who ought to be in teaching as soon as possible . |
| 13 | It would n't be on walking much further to a bus stop somewhere else , especially in the winter when it 's raining and snowing . ’ |
| 14 | Oh , yes — you said that you and Mummy entertain Daddy 's guests — but I have yet to learn how good you are at turning out perfectly cooked food . |
| 15 | We feel it 's worth staying here just to order breakfast by the pool ! |
| 16 | Really for our business , it 's worth messing around now . |
| 17 | Before we get down to examining this unusual and highly specialised guitar , it 's worth mentioning once again that there are two Manson brothers , behind two quite separate operations : Hugh is in the solid electric guitar business , while Andy makes acoustics , electro-acoustics and carved arch-top jazz guitars . |
| 18 | While we 're in the process of overturning stereotypes and preconceptions , it 's worth focusing on arguably the , traditionally , most-cited criticism of lawyers — price and value for money . |
| 19 | And er if you can clearly identify that in folk , it 's worth treating very vigorously cos it can make a huge difference . |
| 20 | Do you think it 's worth enquiring about even though it 's not very far . |
| 21 | It is worth stressing once more that most consequential points or passages in BT are prefigured , sometimes loosely , sometimes almost verbatim , in one or other of the preliminary versions of 1870 and the extended fragments of 1871 . |
| 22 | It is worth looking more closely at the expressions he cites . |
| 23 | But it is worth remembering that early in Earth 's history the continents were much smaller than they are now . |
| 24 | This point is worth emphasizing not only because of its importance in the developing argument to follow , but also because it marks the way in which my use of ‘ the limit of an authority 's rightful power ’ differs from some common uses ( though it conforms with others , including the legal usage ) . |
| 25 | Thereafter Offa assumed direct rule of Hwiccian territory in the 780s , and by the 790s the province was under the command of an individual known simply as dux ( CS 272 , 273 : S 146 ) , but it is worth emphasizing how long this process took . |
| 26 | It is worth pausing here momentarily to observe that such legally provided remedies can be morally justified even when applied to people who are not subject to the authority of the government and its laws . |
| 27 | It is worth pointing out however that there is n't really much difference in speed ( or for that matter in fuel consumption ) between the 1.8 and the 2.0-litre . |
| 28 | It is worth pointing out however that the neoliberal perspective concentrates on the efficient delivery and financing of services and on issues of consumer choice . |
| 29 | It is worth pointing out here that sewage sludge deposited on land is treated as industrial waste , except : |
| 30 | However , it is worth pointing out here why we have counted complete strings from one end of the utterance to the other . |