Example sentences of "[adj] [vb mod] [be] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This may be by consulting a specialist in the field or by doing some research to fill in the gaps in knowledge , as part of the project . |
| 2 | This may be by consulting a specialist in the field or by doing some research to fill in the gaps in knowledge , as part of the project . |
| 3 | I 've made a decision to go and say , hey , this might be worth having . |
| 4 | The most obvious way of doing this would be by seeking to invoke the protection afforded to freedom of conscience under Article 9 of the European Convention of Human Rights . |
| 5 | For a human female this would be like having a baby in her mid-sixties . |
| 6 | To say this would be like saying that people acquire the concept of the past by experiencing it in memory . |
| 7 | The company says that it intends to support the FDDI , Fibre Channel Standard and Parallel Channel Attachment standards but this will be for connecting the SP1 to file servers and hosts rather than speeding up the local network within the chassis . |
| 8 | It is hoped the Halcyon will be of malting quality for sale in August/September . |
| 9 | So that might be worth bearing in mind . |
| 10 | Er , we 've got all packed in for I mean that might be worth putting back on . |
| 11 | And I pick it up and it says Loughborough Building Society and you can see about half a percent er premium rate on fifty thousand pounds , and you think that might be worth going for , for , for somebody who 's got a lot of capital , but is it really , because if you 've got fifty thousand in there , you are at risk . |
| 12 | If it was yellow with sort of pink spots , that 'd be worth putting down . |
| 13 | Some of these would be worth reviving , for example Elizabeth Hammond 's gooseberry or apple trifle quoted on page 240 and Robert May 's beautiful " black fruit " mixtures . |
| 14 | It is not the rural bus , post office , shop or pub , important as all these can be in safeguarding a village 's identity . |
| 15 | I decided that anything which said that you could have as much mayonnaise , avocados and nuts as you like and still do yourself good must be worth trying ! |
| 16 | ‘ Buying Manchester United would be like buying a Van Gogh — you just can not put a value on it . ’ |
| 17 | A more accurate way of conveying the thought that men exist or that dragons are fictional would be by saying " For some ( at least one ) x , x is a man " and " Nothing is a dragon " ; employing expressions , that is , that correspond to what logicians call , " quantifiers " , and enable us to dispel any lingering illusion that existential propositions might have a subject/predicate structure . |
| 18 | Well er that 's the same , that would be worth thinking this you know |
| 19 | I wonder if that would be worth getting ? |
| 20 | That would be worth knowing . |
| 21 | Well I think that would be worth looking into |
| 22 | Now that would be worth having . |
| 23 | It all sounded so polite and formal , when what she really wanted was to put her arms around him and have him hold her , kiss her , tell her that he had forgiven her , but that would be like trying to turn the clock back , and there was no way they could do that . |
| 24 | I could never move from my flat — that would be like leaving Percy behind . ’ |
| 25 | That would be like looking underneath the world to see Atlas ' shoulders holding it up . |
| 26 | He said : that would be like praying to Edison when a lightbulb burns out . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ We believe there 's a Class 46 at the Technical Centre in Derby and that will be worth having a look at , ’ he added , although , with RFS sub-contracting in the Channel Tunnel , BR are now likely to take an increasingly dim view about selling off withdrawn Class 20s , another Knotty target . |
| 28 | Okay Douglas all that will be in writing to you . |
| 29 | Much of the nineties will be about clearing up the fall-out of the liberal eighties . |