Example sentences of "be [prep] [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But mostly I remember the fishing and if it had n't been for having to carry a gas mask , go without sweets and put up with loud bangs in the middle of the night , I would hardly have known a war was going on . |
| 2 | It is frustrating as a producer , when you have so many ideas that are worth trying to make it better . ’ |
| 3 | Many people think it is hard to assess whether a building is worth preserving and ask what the criteria are for trying to save it . |
| 4 | Clarke had said the same thing and she had tried desperately to comply but it had been like trying to lay hold of darting butterflies . |
| 5 | And from now on , he will be as fervently fanatical in his promulgation of Nazarean thought as he has hitherto been in trying to suppress it . |
| 6 | It may also be a social problem , but sociologists are just as interested in trying to explain ‘ normal ’ behaviour and events as they are in trying to explain the deviant or the abnormal . |
| 7 | But it may still be worth striving to see the Right-Left medal of that contentious era as a whole , its opposite sides complementary as well as antagonistic . |
| 8 | Before going on to examine the more detailed contributions of Russian Formalism to specific areas of literary studies , it might be worth pausing to assess the Formalist position by comparing it with the assumptions which it had set out to replace , and which to a certain extent continue to inform ( albeit implicitly ) critical studies still being produced today . |
| 9 | However it must be worth trying to do so especially if a senior employee has received independent legal advice before entering the agreement and has been specifically compensated ( as is common in the USA ) for accepting the restraint . |
| 10 | It may well be worth trying to gum up the joint with a mastic sealant or self-adhesive bitumastic flashing rather than going to all the trouble of dismantling the system : use the sealant on the joints even if you do dismantle and reassemble them . |
| 11 | She spent her rare afternoons off visiting the sights of Paris , or lying in the Luxembourg Gardens alone , reading Dostoevsky and Sartre and Camus , and sending out contradictory messages to idle young men who wondered if it would be worth trying to pick her up . |
| 12 | Inspection of the scatterplot suggested that it would be worth trying to fit a line ; the task is to find one which will come as near as possible to the data points . |
| 13 | It might therefore be worth trying to get permission and , if granted , the private road can be followed on a rough surface for five miles . |
| 14 | Come to think of it , he 'd seemed rather a decent chap , someone it might be worth getting to know . |
| 15 | At least the Scots were able to bid their farewells from Suva in better heart when the result from Dublin filtered through , John Jeffrey even suggesting that the air fare back to London to appear as a pundit on television 's Rugby Special might just be worth paying to hear the reaction of some of his English chums ! |
| 16 | Up Norway way IT might be worth going to see A Handful Of Time , an acclaimed Norwegian film which is part of the Norway festival starting in Newcastle next week . |
| 17 | Such words are , from the point of view of this course , too complex and uncommon for it to be worth attempting to write rules . |
| 18 | Dr G 's belief that physics should be about learning to think in an ‘ abstract and critical way ’ is reflected in his views on teaching ; it is , for example , important to him that students should have some control over their own learning . |
| 19 | To put Labour in charge would be like trying to douse a fire with kerosene . |
| 20 | Trying to recreate something as well-known as Layla must be like trying to forge a Picasso . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It would be like trying to stop a buffalo , because he was nothing but muscle , weight and bone . |
| 23 | It would be like trying to fill the Pacific Ocean with pebbles thrown into the waves . |
| 24 | As I told a couple of surveyors I met at the ground earlier today , ‘ Building on here would be like trying to wallpaper a Slumberland mattress . ’ |
| 25 | As an exercise in thinking about the unthinkable , the point is a counter to the idea of ‘ tactical ’ nuclear war as a first step in the ladder of escalation but , equally , it might be like trying to avoid any unwanted delays in Russian roulette by starting with a fully loaded gun . |
| 26 | But unless you spend the night before patiently reserving your patch , finding a prime viewing spot can be like trying to catch the tube in the morning rush hour . |
| 27 | It would be like returning to resit an examination in which we have not done well enough to proceed to another level of our education . |
| 28 | She could n't imagine what it would be like having to get into bed with the elegant stranger who turned to speak to her now and then . |
| 29 | Whether one is ‘ sticking close to the knitting ’ ( Peters and Waterman , 1982 ; Redding , 1990 ) by focusing only on what one knows well , in a family business , or whether one is involved in imperatively co-ordinating only a fairly specific range of business-related activity , as in typical Japanese enterprises , leaving the broader picture to the inter-market relations and to state planning , one is certainly involved in a far more restricted and less audacious exercise of planning than one would be in trying to plan the twenty or thirty unrelated businesses of the typical conglomerate . |
| 30 | Within the other major departments , reflecting the other phases of design , their responsibilities are seen to be in responding to direct requests for schemes or analysis . |