Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The handsets , there are the cream handsets and the grey handsets , there are no differences that are worth noting as far as performance-wise , but the grey handset has , I do n't know if you 've noticed , a mute button , okay , so that you can have a conversation , and press the mute button , and you cut off the person at the other end . |
| 2 | The latter are worth noting as typical of the general philosophy claimed by many schools to underpin their project involvement : |
| 3 | Museums truly worth visiting are worth standing as New Yorkers say on line for . |
| 4 | I mean it was cursory , it became cursory when I saw the bloody pile of stuff that I 'd got to read , and I thought , ‘ Well I 'll you know we 'll skip that and I 'll just say what a wonderful lot you are for doing so much . ’ |
| 5 | The trend in recent years has been towards establishing more horizontal committees in the interests of greater internal co-ordination . |
| 6 | ‘ I make no secret , ’ said Samuel suddenly , who had obviously been considering doing just that , ‘ that I disliked the fellow . |
| 7 | The layers are of alternating more felsic and more mafic material around 5–10 centimetres thick . |
| 8 | On principle I am against owning too many establishments dealing in the same merchandise in the one town . |
| 9 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could have been in producing statistically valid trials . ’ |
| 10 | I intend to commission a survey soon to find out more about what the public want from the citizens charter and what their expectations and priorities are in taking forward this work . |
| 11 | It seems to be worth inquiring why this should be so ; and what generalizations about sociolinguistic variation and change we can draw from this fact . |
| 12 | It would be worth knowing how many exhibition visitors obeyed these examination instructions . |
| 13 | If direct on-line storage is limited , it may be worth accepting more frequent reorganizations as the price for cutting down overflow space . |
| 14 | ‘ No … but it might be worth talking over old times with him . |
| 15 | They are usually " top down " decisions taken by nurses at district or unit level which , in terms of the workforce , may be about deciding how many nurses it is possible to " squeeze out of a budget or how to negotiate around a budget to obtain a particular number of nurses . |
| 16 | Well it , it 's likely to be of charged under one of the loose clauses of anti-government er activities which really could mean anything , and so there , it 's more likely to be that , and if so , we have to look at the evidence then that was used to back up this claim . |
| 17 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could be in doing statistically valid trials ’ |
| 18 | With old people who are both deaf and blind , communication may have to be by spelling out key words on the palm of the hand , or writing letters on the forehead . |
| 19 | The procedures for European political cation need to be brought within a process of democratic accountability if they are to made more effective . |
| 20 | It 's worth gathering as many prizes as possible for a raffle or draw . |
| 21 | Gents I , I do n't think it 's worth spending that much time on that . |
| 22 | That 's for watching too much |
| 23 | Obviously their chance at the draw bag is now four to one instead of one hundred to one , and even allowing for the fact that they will undoubtedly be called lucky so and so 's for drawing well all the time , with odds of four to one it is not so surprising . |
| 24 | But that would be a strictly literary question ; and it 's for raising quite other questions that this book is momentous and irreplaceable . |
| 25 | But it is worth pointing out one obvious hostage given by treating the ‘ inside ’ as a matter of the desires and beliefs of individual actors . |
| 26 | It is worth removing mildly infested plants from their pots and washing off all the compost ( together with the grubs and any remaining eggs ) , then repotting in fresh compost drenched with insecticide . |
| 27 | The whole business of listening to lectures is discussed elsewhere ( chapter 3 ) but it is worth emphasising here that note-making is not concerned with taking down every word that a lecturer says . |
| 28 | It is worth bringing home olive oil which is produced in profusion here , and perhaps a dessert wine from the incredible terraced slopes which cling to the hillside of the Cinque Terre . |
| 29 | It is worth saying accordingly that Denethor , contrasted with Saruman as he is in other ways with Théoden , is an arch-conservative . |
| 30 | It is worth clearing up one not infrequent misunderstanding . |