Example sentences of "be [prep] [v-ing] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everyone arrives with a stack of singles which they think are worth considering for the playlist . |
| 2 | And while the ethical concerns are real enough , they are not novel in medicine , and are worth confronting for the benefits that will come to our patients and the community . |
| 3 | It should be worth waiting for the last in which Mick Ryan 's Les Amis ( 3.40 ) is well drawn and must be fancied on her two lengths defeat of Quinta Royale at Folkestone . |
| 4 | The past few months have proved how effective we are at fighting for the British people . |
| 5 | For a somewhat less biased view of the global scene it 's worth sending for the latest Report on the State of World Population from the UN 's Fund for Population Activities ( 485 , Lexington Ave . |
| 6 | Convert or sceptic , the philosphy seems to be if it works for you , it 's worth paying for the privilege . |
| 7 | Friendship is about caring for the other person , respecting the other person , sharing your interests with the other person , enjoying just being with the other person — but not about suffocating the other person with big slobbering kisses ! |
| 8 | Most of these are well beyond binocular range , but it is worth looking for the ‘ Black-Eye ’ galaxy M64 , which is within a degree of the star 35 Comæ , not far from Alpha . |
| 9 | Probably the most useful recent equivalent is Clutton-Brock and Albon 's Red Deer in the Highlands , while a short summary is in Clutton-Brock and Ball , Rum , the Natural History of an Island — a book which is worth studying for the interplay of how things affect each other . |
| 10 | It is worth growing for the effect of its foliage alone , but doubles its value as a garden plant in late summer with graceful pale green stems that grow some 5ft tall . |
| 11 | If all this is true , it is quite unclear to me in what the ‘ slim margin ’ consists , and what price it is worth paying for the war we should , on balance , want . |
| 12 | Looking at Penguin er , it was a very difficult year but the profit you see was erm , is after providing for the losses up to the date we disposed of Smith Mark and also making further provision on , on er , leases when we moved out of the other buildings , centralized the editorial and er , administrative functions into one office and , and but for that you would see that the er , the Penguin profit would have moved ahead from the year before . |
| 13 | But looking into the future , well , that 's like looking for the bottom of the river , is n't it ? |
| 14 | I thought it was worth pushing for the extra I mean when he said a thousand , I thought it would be |
| 15 | It was like waiting for the Second Coming . |
| 16 | She could , in a way , imagine what it was like caring for the man before her . |