Example sentences of "for what it be [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For what it is worth , Leicestershire 's batting looks attractive and the seam bowlers sound , butthey must improve their slow bowling form . |
| 2 | My own , much attenuated view , for what it is worth , is as follows . |
| 3 | A personal view , for what it is worth , is that most British public libraries would benefit from spending at least 40 % of their bookfunds on stock revision . |
| 4 | For what it is worth , I think he may be right because it is possible to find objects in space from remembered information . |
| 5 | For what it is worth , my own sample of one sixth-form biologist found Hunting the Past excellent reading . |
| 6 | An unbelievable 40–1 was available with Surrey Racing and this column , for what it is worth , believes this to have been the most outstanding each-way value of the season and a serious each-way proposition . |
| 7 | For what it is worth , I brought off this trick — something of interest , I should suppose , only to other writers … |
| 8 | The prints were about my own size , 6½ and my own guess for what it is worth , since , as a cadet I did own a pair of hob-nails , is that my own almost religious love of country railways had revealed a kind of secular stigmatic effect . |
| 9 | For what it is worth , the general conclusion which emerged was that overseas investment had a small positive effect on exports . |
| 10 | By way of abbreviation , for what it is worth , we can say that cc was dependently necessary to e , that e was such as to dependently necessitate cc . |
| 11 | For what it is worth , my view is that the student of political science is exposed to a wide range of somewhat superficial opinions , most of them barely distinguishable from the prejudices daily expressed in newspapers . |
| 12 | Alix Bowen has always known that she will have to go to the party , because she is one of Liz Headleand 's two closest friends , and she has pledged her support , for what it is worth . |
| 13 | Totally deafened at the age of seven , he has written : " My education , for what it is worth , was at Dr William Stainer 's private school , first at Finsbury Park and afterwards at Highgate . |
| 14 | This sort of evidence should be carefully examined for what it is worth . |
| 15 | As is usual in such cases the myth seems to be somewhat remote from the historical facts but , for what it is worth , Wilberforce is supposed to have remarked that : " Whatever certain people might believe he would not look at the monkeys in the Zoological Gardens as connected with his ancestors ' , to which Huxley replied : " I would rather be descended from an ape than a bishop " , which has merits as repartee but is hardly a contribution to science . |
| 16 | However my own opinion , for what it is worth , is that the possibility of making moral judgements is inextricably mixed up with the possession of language capability in quite a different form from that which has been shown to exist in experimental domesticated apes . |
| 17 | For what it is worth , every typist would have to have an error rate of about one in a trillion ; that is , he would have to be accurate enough to make only a single error in typing the Bible 250,000 times at a stretch . |
| 18 | It is n't a strong argument , but , for what it is worth , it goes like this . |
| 19 | For what it is worth , ma'am , I would recommend an equal division of whatever it is you have to leave . ’ |
| 20 | For what it is worth , most modern biologists would n't find it difficult to explain every one of the Bishop 's 35 examples in terms of the theory of natural selection , although not all of them are quite as easy as the polar bears . |
| 21 | It is far too wordy and vague , but here is my summary , for what it is worth . |
| 22 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |
| 23 | For what it 's worth , I was a schoolboy visiting the [ Russian ] cruiser that afternoon after school , and was on the main deck looking over the side next to the quay , when I saw a diver ( with full deep-diving headgear ) being pulled beneath the surface by two frogmen . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , aye , you can have that and welcome , for what it 's worth . |
| 25 | For what it 's worth , here are my predictions for the major categories : Best Film : Bugsy , Director : Barry Levinson , Best Actor : Nick Nolte , Best actress : Jodie Foster , Best supporting actor : Jack Palance , Best Supporting actress : Juliette Lewis , Best original screenplay : Bugsy . |
| 26 | It was , for what it 's worth , how they had first met , Rab in a leather jacket , with his milk bottles , his resemblance to Elvis — in Jailhouse Rock — what had made her wild about him . |
| 27 | ‘ For what it 's worth , I think this is wildly over-optimistic . |
| 28 | For what it 's worth , I think she 's an utterly compelling , beautiful woman who is struggling with herself and her confusion and just has n't learned how to channel her power yet . |
| 29 | For what it 's worth , Silicon Graphics Inc and MIPS Computer Systems Inc are understood to be drawing together a new executive-level technical committee of the Advanced Computing Environment . |
| 30 | Her teachings are relatively sensible ( no tabloid fodder here ) , and , for what it 's worth , she 's taken seriously in India , whereas the likes of Rajneesh and the Maharishi were more admired for their business acumen . |