Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [conj] [pron] [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These whiskers are sensitive not only to touch but to taste , so the fish can tell what on the river bed in front of its mouth is worth eating and what is not . |
| 2 | Now who will be responsible for seeing that it 's there ? ’ |
| 3 | When God 's word on some matter comes to us in repeated form in different ways , it is worth reflecting whether we are really attending to the influence it is intended to have upon our beliefs and behaviour . |
| 4 | The new breeds of patio roses , Polyantha roses , and the modern shrub roses mentioned above , are all excellent subjects for pressing as they are considerably smaller than some other varieties , and bear a constant flow of flowers throughout the summer . |
| 5 | THE BARE STONE WALLS OBVIATED THE NEED FOR WALLCOVERING AND IT WAS NOT UNTIL THE ASHLEYS MOVED TO THEIR NEXT HOUSE THAT THEY PRESSED AHEAD WITH THE INTRODUCTION OF WALLPAPER . |
| 6 | September is one of my favourite months for walking as it 's invariably cooler — and wetter , it 's true ! — yet the days are still long and it 's easier to avoid the crowds . |
| 7 | I think also you would expect children who are really quite young , well before the first year , to be showing social interest in other adults around , and if they 're not it might be worth checking that there is n't some problem with the child . |
| 8 | I think also you would expect children who are really quite young , well before the first year , to be showing social interest in other adults around , and if they 're not it might be worth checking that there is n't some problem with the child . |
| 9 | After checking that I was not talking to the media , I asked what the nature of her enquiry was , and she proceeded to furnish me with the facts . |
| 10 | A nesting box must be positioned in an area that has no existing barn owl settlement , after checking that there are enough small mammals to feed an expanding population . |
| 11 | After confirming that I was n't taking any medication , she gave me two small white pills with a glass of water and sat me down , explaining that my Mother had been seriously burned and the pills were to help me with the shock when I saw her . |
| 12 | She took up tennis after finding that she was simply in the way if she appeared on the film set . |
| 13 | It is worth remembering that there are still people in Britain today who have never been to London . |
| 14 | This crater was known as the Etang Sec , or dry tarn , a name worth remembering because it was later to become the focus of the eruption proper . |
| 15 | These features are worth remembering if you are currently exploring a new stretch of river . |
| 16 | Yet the high-momentum electrons and positrons observed must eventually be explained somehow and it is perhaps worth remarking that it is not new in physics for novel phenomena to be observed when looking for something else . |
| 17 | From what you told me , you seemed to feel the opposite : life might have been worth living if he was n't there . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ They say that pain is good for writing and I 'm not sure about that , but I guess my trouble is I do n't know how to keep a distance . |
| 19 | Either the place was worth searching or it was n't . |
| 20 | Excuse me for swearing but I 'm just repeating what she said … |
| 21 | I do him the credit of suggesting that it was not of his invention . |
| 22 | When Modigliani was working , Zbo could not resist peeping through the door once or twice to watch , with the excuse of seeing that everything was all right . |
| 23 | I suppose English critics will always work on the old lines , and try to get behind the book to quiz the author … instead of seeing that he is almost irresponsible , that it is the result of haphazard circumstances , and that the writer rubs his eyes and wonders how this and that got into his pages as much as the reviewer does . |
| 24 | the difficulty , for the father , of accepting that he was no longer the only decision maker ; |
| 25 | He seemed incapable of accepting that she was very lonely . |
| 26 | The burden of proving that it was not reasonably practicable would appear to fall on the defendant . |
| 27 | This saddles the defendant with the task of proving that it was not practicable that the procession should have been postponed . |
| 28 | It is a condition of booking that you are adequately insured on your holiday . |
| 29 | On the preliminary issue the judge dismissed the application holding that a local authority could sue for libel in respect of its governing or administrative reputation even though no financial loss was pleaded or alleged , that where a local authority instituted proceedings in reliance on section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 it was for the local authority to decide on the expediency of litigating and it was not the court 's function to do so on an application to strike out , and that since the words complained of reflected on the local authority itself in the management and rectitude of its financial affairs , the statement of claim did disclose a cause of action against the defendants . |
| 30 | At the end of the road the huge bulk of the church with its soaring walls of smoke-blackened brick looked as much out of keeping as it was out of scale with this small domestic self-sufficiency . |