Example sentences of "be [prep] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book seems to be based on the techniques I have long suspected some producers use to keep a discussion going for the full length of a programme whether there is anything in it or not , to keep up the emotional temperature even about unexciting things , and to emit statements which are just distorted enough to get people objecting , whether they are worth objecting to or not . |
| 2 | For the abrupt , hasty manner of Pound 's criticism seems to some readers to carry the implication ( to which Pound in fact did not subscribe ) that no critic is worth listening to unless he has laboured at the maker 's workbench ; that all worthwhile criticism of stories comes from story-tellers , that only poets are worth listening to about poems . |
| 3 | Television may be much more popular than radio , but radio plays still deserve their place amongst the airwaves , and they are worth listening to . |
| 4 | These are for attaching to the erm , tabs . |
| 5 | ‘ We always end up losing some of the group during the factory tour because they are off chatting to old friends . ’ |
| 6 | Well sent off wi after I 'd been about beginning to be co you know , could e eat something , I had cups of tea , with a egg beat up that 's what I used to get when you got typhoid . |
| 7 | It is often said , for example , that the Indonesian island of Bali is ruined and that it has n't been worth going to since the 1930s , but to walk through a Balinese night breathing the warm silk of tropical air accompanied by the croaking of frogs and the distant gongs and gamelan music of a temple celebration is a magical experience . |
| 8 | he 's after , he 's been after trying to Captain the side |
| 9 | The promise follows reports that some Middlesbrough vice girls are considering moving to the town . |
| 10 | If you are considering talking to your child about HIV , think about : |
| 11 | As this Report has noted , people of other faiths or of no faith , as well as Christians , are used by God to mediate his gift of music , and those who are not believers are as capable as those who are of responding to the power of religious music . |
| 12 | Surinder , a Sikh woman , explained to me what it had been like coming to Britain in the sixties and finding a job in a sweat-shop soon after . |
| 13 | ( The teams the players are with according to the DT . |
| 14 | I 'm not even sure that his main pleasure has not been in proving to Madame Duvalle that he was right about me . |
| 15 | You 're no more interested in how a programme is put together than you are in flying to the moon ! ’ |
| 16 | He projected himself as a man who would be worth listening to . |
| 17 | He would , he would be worth listening to , I think . |
| 18 | If it turns out to be ‘ right ’ ( the trade term for ‘ genuine ’ ) , it will be worth sending to Geneva for sale . |
| 19 | Codron had gone up to Cambridge to see the show and knew then that it would be worth bringing to London . |
| 20 | If you do n't find any of the jobs you 've seen advertised appealing , it may well be worth writing to a company that you are interested in working for , but which has no vacancies that you know of . |
| 21 | D' ya think it might be worth writing to some of the and asking them to donate any paper plates ? |
| 22 | It might almost be worth coming to Court again . |
| 23 | The porter 's wife who let us in might be worth talking to . |
| 24 | ‘ It might be worth talking to him , if he 's still alive . |
| 25 | Might be worth talking to her . |
| 26 | The use of circling or underlining parts of their work , arrows to show how pieces of work connect , brainstorming , asterisks to show things which may be worth returning to , parts of diagrams abandoned as a result becomes clear , and other messy ways of working may need to be encouraged if people are used to hiding their rough work or throwing it away . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's why I think it would be worth going to New York . ’ |
| 28 | Got ta be worth going to has n't it ? |
| 29 | This is the maximum size that a two-colour stitch pattern can be for transferring to the console . |
| 30 | However , the greater the inherited capital stock , , the less need there will be for adding to the capital stock , or even replacing worn-out equipment . |