Example sentences of "be [pron] [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | They are nothing worth looking at , for they have green hair and green teeth and little pigs ' eyes and long red noses and shod arms more like a flipper than any respectable arm that could do a day 's work . |
2 | There are plenty of interfering factors but these are inevitably to some extent weakened by a rational understanding of them , at least when this engages appropriately with our basic conatus ( or effort to preserve our own nature ) and thereby acquires the requisite emotional power . |
3 | There are just two comfortable and well-appointed apartments available at the Residence Elena and outside the building there are plenty of sitting areas — all around and under the mulberry trees where chicken and ducks cluck and quack away contentedly . |
4 | ‘ I 've seen them — women like that monstrous Gabriela — push their husbands to ingratiate themselves with the Leader 's henchmen here , I 've seen the feasts they 've laid — like traps — very effective traps — those men , they 're nothing but walking bellies with fists-they grab , hit , grab , swallow , hit , the scum , I would n't lower myself to share a table with them . |
5 | Are you into going to a pub tonight ? |
6 | ‘ How are you at playing a part ? ’ |
7 | What are you like does it improve your hearing . |
8 | Despite much improvement in pencil and art work there had been none in reading and other school work . |
9 | I 've never been one for crediting animals with human feelings , but the expression on that dog 's face definitely said " Stop laughing and get me out of here " . |
10 | I 've never been one for making friends , you know that . |
11 | I have never been one for spending a fortune on equipment , so a dream tank was not something that had ever really passed through my mind . |
12 | She remembered he 'd always been one for noticing things . |
13 | ‘ Perhaps not a Jacobite Guinea ; but it must have been something worth having . ’ |
14 | Crime they say does n't pay , well you may have your own views on that but certainly across the breadth of variety of criminal activity we might agree that crime almost always hurt someone , more or less , we have a system designed to cope with the effects of crime and to deter future criminals , but it does n't seem to be making crime a thing of the past , so how good are we at dealing with crime , tonight 's hundred women have a broad range of experience as victims , law women , perpetrators , police and others , we 'll be hearing their views on the system and how it might be changed and asking why are we all so fascinated by fictional crime from Cell Block H to Agatha Christie . |
15 | where are we with costing and theatres on the nominal charge ? |
16 | Er yeah but why , yeah okay I did n't mean that actually was he asking too much , I mean are we interpreting the peasants as having done , are we over interpreting what the peasants have done , basically ? |
17 | So how close are we to seeing dual-fuel powerplants in tractors ? |
18 | Well we are we like doing the videos because er in the early days we had a lot of problems I suppose with ourselves and with the video people because they had planned ideas for the songs . |
19 | Really bloody-minded children , I have been told — the MPs of the future , perhaps — deduce from all this lavish praise that the faeces are something worth keeping , and refuse to perform on that basis . |
20 | It 'll be me outside looking for star . |
21 | However , there seemed to be nothing against lending equipment to non-military personnel , and we got most of what was wanted . |
22 | Unfortunately for Brazil , even if the economics ministry succeeds in uniting the country 's industry behind quotas , there will be plenty of arguing before any international system can be set up . |
23 | They may put the blame entirely on the teenagers for failing to respond to their advice or orders as they once did , but the fault may be theirs for failing to treat them as the young adults they have now become . |
24 | It might be something about blending with the efficient American women he had seen around the city or it might be a feeling of exile . |
25 | It was the traditional fare and they had agreed it might be something worth trying . |
26 | If so , there may be something worth learning from that person . |
27 | What struck Michael was , the enquiry was humble — as though religion might be something worth knowing about . |
28 | And that goes back to what I said earlier , in that we just do n't see ourselves working internally , in meetings , in negotiations and report binding , with erm , with other officer 's , we see ourselves as a vocal point to get in information out , to , to people , erm and working with people , erm , and that 's erm again a major part of the work we do and just as an example of something that we provide , this is erm , this is the hidden divide , the bulletin of Harlow 's Anti Poverty Strategy Group , this is the latest edition , and it 's just an update on erm impact of eh living in Britain in nineteen ninety one today , the people who are on low income , but we , we 've produced that quarterly , erm , but there , we produce loads of leaflets , were always producing leaflets , and basically if there 's a major piece of legislation there be , there be something worth getting use on it . |
29 | IF one could be sure of having access to the book of the Recording Angel , heaven would indeed be something worth striving for . |
30 | I thought there might be something worth finding . ’ |