Example sentences of "[adj] [that] it be [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was only a small-scale study but the results are so striking that it is worth speculating on some of the possible causes of gender bias in the classroom . |
| 2 | Jones has given talks about muon catalysed fusion all over the USA and in Europe , so it is ironic that it was after speaking at his new home institution , Brigham Young University , on 12 March 1986 that the seminal interaction occurred with Paul Palmer . |
| 3 | The floor was so uneven that it was like running through the Crazy Cottage in a funfair ; the building itself seemed to pitch around him like a listing boat . |
| 4 | To people who do eat pork , the Sulawesi warty pig is so good that it was worth domesticating , and it is the only pig besides the Eurasian wild boar to have become part of the human farmyard . |
| 5 | Guardian readers are sufficiently interesting and distinctive that it is worth tolerating the statistical uncertainties caused by our small sample and the Guardian 's small readership . |
| 6 | Accidents due to swinging on take-off and landing are so common that it is worth studying the causes in detail . |
| 7 | And the carpeting throughout so soft and thick that it was like walking on sheepskins … |
| 8 | I am certain that it is worth concentrating on a fishery for several seasons . |
| 9 | Doubts were expressed in Washington ; but in spite of Griffin 's assertion that the wave of communist risings in Indo-China were not economic , social or ideological , rather they were predominantly nationalistic , he concluded that it was because the Bao Dai government was itself so intensely nationalist that it was worth supporting . |