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Discover LudwigThe phrase "bother being" is not grammatically correct.
You could use the phrase "bother to be," or you could rephrase the sentence entirely. For example, instead of "bother being," you could say "taking the trouble to be."
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Why would anyone bother being cross otherwise?
Actor Fulton Mackay told me: "Don't bother being a star - just be a great actor; and always say your prayers".
According to this study, why bother being educated at all.
My experience is that this is particularly Aspie position and that Neurotypicals often seem to take the view that, why bother being correct when we have a perfectly good opportunity to be vague and wrong.
I attended a conference in 2014 and one of the speakers talked about her bother being murdered, and she said something that stuck with me.
One thing I did like about living like Jessica Jones was how good it felt when I didn't bother being polite to people who were rude to me.
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Why bother? is the obvious question.
Enron wondered what all the bother was.
In addition, there was no indication that noise bother was correlated with noise level.
Alternatives for bother were explored for future PRO instrument development.
The most significant back-translation outlier for bother was anxiety.
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