Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Similarly , when confronted with the results from small numbers , an experienced researcher should be able quickly to judge whether statistics are worth calculating at all . |
| 2 | Two things are worth noting at this point . |
| 3 | They do , however , raise issues that have a direct bearing on the theme of this part of the book and are worth quoting at some length : |
| 4 | For if not then ultimately there is no meaning to survival ; for a life whose meaning stands and falls on whether one escapes or not … ultimately would not be worth living at all ’ |
| 5 | An example may , in consequence , be worth considering at some length . |
| 6 | As an observation it seems sufficiently true , on the basis of simple observation of everyday life , to be worth accepting at this point in the theory , although it is a crucial proposition . |
| 7 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 8 | Could you explain for the record what your reasons were for arriving at that conclusion ? |
| 9 | It is worth looking at each key word or phrase in turn . |
| 10 | It is worth looking at these in detail : |
| 11 | It is worth mentioning at this point that many people who were adopted as babies feel the need in midlife to search out their natural parents . |
| 12 | But it is worth mentioning at this time , when the Press is under attack as never before . |
| 13 | This agitation is worth mentioning at this point , both because it perfectly exemplified the continuing strengths of liberal pacifism , and because its leader and organizer , E. D. Morel , was later to play a key role in sustaining British pacifism after the outbreak of war in 1914 . |
| 14 | Yet it is worth pausing at this point to remind ourselves that throughout her years in office , the Prime Minister has not created any new constitutional structures from which she and her Cabinet have been able to benefit . |
| 15 | These teachings clearly influenced the early books of The Prelude , and it is worth digressing at this point to see how Wordsworth amended and yet clung to the spirit of Rousseau 's ideals . |
| 16 | An information board for each entrance should also be provided , so that visitors can be given topical information — what is going on , what is worth seeing at any given time — as well as permanent information on the Garden itself . |
| 17 | It is worth quoting at some length : |
| 18 | It is worth noting at this point that currently there is very little overlap with the Savoy titles from France which have been available through Vogue ( distributed by New Note in this country ) . |
| 19 | It is worth noting at this point that many young readers do not recognize the distinction between ‘ fiction ’ and ‘ non-fiction ’ that many adults seem to find critically significant . |
| 20 | It is worth noting at this juncture that , in Britain in the 30s , the prevailing view among those of a leftist orientation on the issue of global alignment was at least pro-Russian , if not actively pro-Communist . |
| 21 | It is worth noting at this point , however , that although the HGT-1 cell line shows morphological heterogeneity , seven clonal cell lines each with homogeneous morphology have been identified . |
| 22 | Whether this sermon to the reader is successful has often been debated , and it is worth contrasting at this point the more subtle approach of the painter , John Constable , addressing a London audience . |
| 23 | It is worth adding at this point , in the context of discussion of the cost burden of the elderly , that according to further calculations by David Thomson ( 1987 ) based on Family Expenditure Survey data , the share of national resources going to the elderly has not risen proportionately with their numbers over the past two decades . |
| 24 | It 's like looking at those maps that colour in the World 's Religions . |
| 25 | One way we can examine the nature and extent of Jacobite sympathies amongst the populace is by looking at those who got into trouble with the law for Jacobite disaffection . |
| 26 | Two : determine whether the well-done thing was worth doing at all . |
| 27 | ‘ Your luck was in surviving at all , Leonora . |
| 28 | What is clear is that it was by looking at these eastern arts , whose strict conventions embodied far more of nature than the near-abstract Geometric , that Greek artists were able to break from that and establish a comparable style of their own . |