Example sentences of "be [indef pn] [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 | Despite much improvement in pencil and art work there had been none in reading and other school work . |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | I 've never been one for making friends , you know that . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She remembered he 'd always been one for noticing things . |
| 10 | ‘ Perhaps not a Jacobite Guinea ; but it must have been something worth having . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , there seemed to be nothing against lending equipment to non-military personnel , and we got most of what was wanted . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was the traditional fare and they had agreed it might be something worth trying . |
| 16 | If so , there may be something worth learning from that person . |
| 17 | What struck Michael was , the enquiry was humble — as though religion might be something worth knowing about . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | IF one could be sure of having access to the book of the Recording Angel , heaven would indeed be something worth striving for . |
| 20 | I thought there might be something worth finding . ’ |
| 21 | it might be something worth pulling kids out of . |
| 22 | the current is going to be something like multiplied by the voltage . |
| 23 | Remember that there must be something in writing for each ; no one is trusting memory . |
| 24 | The choice here may in a sense be one between knowing more and knowing less . |
| 25 | I would n't mind being a bride , if I could be one without having a husband . |
| 26 | She was too tall , too blonde to be anything but Hung Mao . |
| 27 | Alexei thought that marriage to Jehana was likely to be anything but settling , but he did not argue . |
| 28 | MY leisurely drive down the Antrim coast road last Sunday turned out to be anything but relaxing . |
| 29 | There had not seemed to be anything worth doing . |
| 30 | Fantasy goals can be anything from running in the Olympics to breaking a world record or winning the Boston Marathon . |