Example sentences of "[adj] it be [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where waters are quite clear it is worth spending as much time as possible gazing from bridges , the banks or trees . |
| 2 | If the potential rewards are high it is worth pursuing , but knowing when to stop is not easy , and formalized methods of planning are not always easy to apply . |
| 3 | However clever it was at irradiating all those little blue MPs as it passed over them , it still looked too much like something from a game show or a funfair at the end of the pier . |
| 4 | The theoretical model , developed by Maynard Smith and Reichert to explain what happens , also requires that the behaviour of each individual at each stage of escalation indicates how serious it is about continuing . |
| 5 | Although these assumptions may seem too numerous and overly restrictive it is worth restating that this is essentially a deductive economic model which abstracts from reality . |
| 6 | The research examines how the newly introduced service sets about its job and how effective it is in reducing variations . |
| 7 | Er , you know , I 'm alright , and I 've done my back now and I 'm sure it 's with coughing cos every time I cough now it really hurts ! |
| 8 | You do need a mouse to run this program but it is that good it is worth buying one just to play . |
| 9 | I started off with a random set of guesses as to how to break the code , and then checked each guess to see how good it was at turning the garbled message into English . |
| 10 | Bernadette added : ‘ When I saw Farrah lying there safe it was like giving birth all over again . |
| 11 | John 's tears were so enormous it was like trying to stem a leak in the plumbing . |
| 12 | That night the air in the basement room became so thick it was like inhaling the black tar they put on the road . |
| 13 | For the tongue-tied it 's worth preparing some stock comments and even preparing for social chit-chat by noting interesting stories in the media . |
| 14 | The information at the centre will permit the board to determine exactly how close it is to achieving these change management objectives . |
| 15 | STILL champ — but deep down Chris Eubank knows how close it was against punching postman Tony Thornton |
| 16 | She was lying naked on bare boards in an empty room , not bound but somehow bounded , and a man whose face she could never see , his mouth so sweet it was like eating candy to kiss him , made violent love to her . |
| 17 | It can not see how good or bad it is in reaching its objectives unless it engages with them for most of the manager 's time . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's a stunning setting but everyone was so silent it was like playing in a church . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's a stunning setting , ’ said Courier , ‘ but everyone was so silent it was like playing in a church . |