Example sentences of "be something [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps not a Jacobite Guinea ; but it must have been something worth having . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was the traditional fare and they had agreed it might be something worth trying . |
| 5 | If so , there may be something worth learning from that person . |
| 6 | What struck Michael was , the enquiry was humble — as though religion might be something worth knowing about . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | IF one could be sure of having access to the book of the Recording Angel , heaven would indeed be something worth striving for . |
| 9 | I thought there might be something worth finding . ’ |
| 10 | it might be something worth pulling kids out of . |
| 11 | the current is going to be something like multiplied by the voltage . |
| 12 | Remember that there must be something in writing for each ; no one is trusting memory . |
| 13 | Anyway , all I can remember is something about turning the other cheek which I do n't believe in . |
| 14 | And the reason murder is a virtual necessity in the detective story is that , in an essentially frivolous sort of book , it gives the reader a paradoxical feeling that here is something worth reading about . |
| 15 | They feel the fighting is justified because their religion is something worth supporting and fighting for because if everybody just accepted what the other said then no-one would have the right to choose and end up with a dictatorship where one person is saying what they believe in and nobody fights back so everybody would end up having to agree . |
| 16 | Perhaps most of all , it needs staying power , realism and a belief that it is something worth working for . |
| 17 | But they might be drawn to the sound of a group of females socialising — think that this is something worth investigating — and help us to lure them out again . ’ |
| 18 | I think the oldest one we 've got is something like got us a Roman coin , they . |
| 19 | Bearing in mind that the meaning of imagine is something like construct a mental image without solid evidence , consider : ( 75 ) ( 76 ) ( 75 ) gives a single ( complex ) element as subordinate to imagine ; consequently her is subjected to all the aspects of imagine just as much as red-haired . |
| 20 | It is something like ripping off a plaster . |
| 21 | There 's something about watching little birds , even dead ones , being torn to shreds by a powerful beak that turns my stomach . |
| 22 | You can , you can win something and then they 'll it 's something about going to see the Queen ! |
| 23 | that everybody said it 's something about going to the back door . |
| 24 | Not only must you spray regularly , but it 's a good idea to vary the brand of spray that you use ; the nasty wee beasties soon develop resistance if you use the same one over and over again , and that 's something worth taking the time to avoid . |
| 25 | It need not cost , cost the County Council anything at all , right , the combination and so on , we can do it for relatively low cost , and may get financial support , it 's a , it 's something worth doing to exploit the links that we have with our Embassies and Chambers of Commerce abroad . |
| 26 | at least that 's something worth having . |
| 27 | It 's about the future of our planet and that 's something worth fighting for … the real challenge for politicians is to convince people that being keen on the environment is not a cost-free option . ’ |
| 28 | In the hope that there 's something worth waiting for ? ’ |
| 29 | Well I said to him look , I said I know I 'm fed up with this thing next door , and I do n't want to stay there , but Alan said that I 've got to stay there , right , so I said to him , you know , we have to start doing something and I said to him something permanent because he ai n't a handy man , I mean he 'll do it , because I mean it 's something like measuring steel in n it ? |
| 30 | Well this is , this is what I 'm wondering , unless it 's something from say tedious it 's boring and think of necessarily boring being tedious outside |