Example sentences of "be a waste " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well if a guitar solo is played right it can sound absolutely great , but 99 times out of a 100 they wo n't sound great and they 're a waste of time . |
| 2 | So basically if you 're going to se , tell somebody they 're a waste of space , it 's not very constructive , it 's personal , and I would n't say it unless you can tell them why you think they 're a waste of space at least . |
| 3 | So basically if you 're going to se , tell somebody they 're a waste of space , it 's not very constructive , it 's personal , and I would n't say it unless you can tell them why you think they 're a waste of space at least . |
| 4 | Yes , but there 's no point you doing it that because it 's like , if they are a waste of space you 're not going to be able to get rid of them because you 've told them that they 're a waste of space , it needs to be something that 's much more positive , than just going round saying that . |
| 5 | After having a C D for Christmas last year , they 're a waste of money . |
| 6 | Before you stop doing a C F R report you 've got to prove they 're a waste of time . |
| 7 | The entire operation had been a waste of time . |
| 8 | But if that hysteria does no more than feed the seemingly insatiable appetite for publications on microcomputers then it will have been a waste to have trundled the IT bandwagon around Britain . |
| 9 | ( It will also have been a waste if the outcome is only to soften up British buyers for Japanese companies to rush in and sell us microcomputers as they have previously sold us domestic electronic equipment . ) |
| 10 | I guess the performance of the instruments will have to validate the name , because if these guitars err on the trashy side , that will have been a waste of rather a neat moniker … |
| 11 | On his own decision to go for the draw with a last-minute John Liley penalty , Richards said pointedly : ‘ Trying to win the game by opting for the scrum would have been a waste of time because the moment we drove for the line , they would have wheeled it or collapsed it . |
| 12 | I 'm far more phlegmatic and appreciate the value of people , but this has been a waste of a couple of years , prime working time , and I 'd like those back . ’ |
| 13 | There are arguments for suggesting the landings at Tarawa were unnecessary , much in the way the Dieppe raid on the French coast the previous summer is considered by some historians to have been a waste of many Canadian and other lives . |
| 14 | ‘ I just wonder whether it has all been a waste of time . ’ |
| 15 | Every time I have been to the Jobcentre it 's been a waste of time . |
| 16 | I 'm glad Durham seem pleased with the way it worked out , but it will have been a waste of time for me if I do n't do well in Sri Lanka and in the home series against West Indies . |
| 17 | Buying that blank tape had been a waste , for she knew she would never dare play it back . |
| 18 | It would have been a waste of time . ’ |
| 19 | Mr Greene claimed that in Britain campaigns aimed at the population as a whole had been shown to have been a waste of money and there had been a change of policy to target the high-risk groups such as homosexuals and intravenous drug users . |
| 20 | Lunch had not altogether been a waste of time . |
| 21 | With a reply like that it would have been a waste of time and effort to pursue the issue . |
| 22 | P.S If this letter does nt get there I 'm gon na give up , so if it does will someone acknowledge it so I know it has'nt been a waste of time . |
| 23 | Thank you for the dinner , but I 'm afraid it 's all been a waste of time . |
| 24 | It has n't been a waste of time and money . |
| 25 | Some argue that cheap imports are a waste of money — others say widely differing prices are being charged for exactly the same product and that suppliers which criticise imported cutlery often stock it themselves . |
| 26 | All other things which are done instead of talking are a waste of time , are being used as excuses to delay the whole process , and will bear no fruit whatsoever , except the killing which is going on every day … |
| 27 | Desperate attempts to find wriggle room to justify or excuse bad decisions are a waste of time and creative energy . |
| 28 | They may be good business for surveyors , but they are a waste of money for those buyers who are unsuccessful or who have to pull out for one reason or another . |
| 29 | You probably think that most meetings are a waste of time and you may well be right . |
| 30 | The theory of differential equations , as usually taught , is a rag-bag of special tricks , many of which are a waste of time and are included only because they can be calculated without having to think about what 's really going on . |