Example sentences of "[am/are] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other aspect is of course catering facilities here on a Saturday may not be the same as what they are during the week . |
| 2 | ‘ Right now I am off the international scene . |
| 3 | Since I , without the benefit of tax relief , am paying as much as I am for the Monarchy , I would like them to do what they have to do in silence . |
| 4 | The Dalek ship is programmed to return to Kembel in spite of all their efforts to divert it , and it falls to Steven to hand over the fake core to the Daleks once the Doctor and Sara are aboard the TARDIS . |
| 5 | Items of value , real or sentimental , are worth the trouble of proper storage . |
| 6 | The interiors are worth the detour . |
| 7 | The facsimile editions are worth the £12.95 price tag for the Frenchified handwritten text and superb colour printing . |
| 8 | Never mind : the action pictures by Russell Cheyne are worth the price on their own . |
| 9 | The question now is whether they will all be penalised as a result of collective inaccuracy , or if a convincing explanation will be found to persuade clients , both political and commercial , that surveys are worth the paper they are printed on . |
| 10 | You produce a good magazine each month ; the readers ' letters alone are worth the annual subscription . |
| 11 | They cost around £40 to £50 an hour , but these elegant craft are the epitome of Venice and are worth the splurge just once . |
| 12 | Still , some of the suggestions made by the people who would be running economic policy in a Socialist government are worth the attention of anybody anxious to straighten out the Greek system . |
| 13 | High-end drawing packages ( which cost hundreds of pounds ) are worth the expense if you work regularly with images and need to create complex or technical drawings . |
| 14 | Of course , most of them thrive on it , but many people are beginning to wonder if the rewards for having power , and being able to influence others , are worth the costs , especially in terms of family relationships . |
| 15 | The pictures of the smokers alone are worth the price of admission : Burri 's series on the cocky Che Guevara chomping on a cigar ; Cartier-Bresson 's puckish Jean Genet drawing on a cheroot ; Erwitt 's vain Mishima posed with a cigarette ; and Halsmann 's immortal Hitchcock ( above ) . |
| 16 | It boils down to whether you think the extra features and quality are worth the extra money . |
| 17 | The goals are worth the work . |
| 18 | It may be in these circumstances that moderation rather than liberation is more likely to achieve results , but it is a matter of interpretation whether the results achieved by good behaviour are worth the energy required . |
| 19 | The Purchaser will not be happy if the Business consists of all the wrong kinds of assets ( peas instead of beans ) even if they are worth the same as the price paid . |
| 20 | But whether golfers are worth the staggering cash they seem to bank is quite another subject and , before he died , I chose to ask this question of Henry Cotton who , as a young man , won three Open titles , but comparatively small cheques to go with them . |
| 21 | Kevin Burke , chairman of the cooperative , said : ‘ The message to everyone tempted to follow our example must be that if the final homes are worth your time and trouble , they are worth the wait . |
| 22 | I may not be pure in heart , but , since Mike Jarvis the skateboarder went to live in Nottingham , I am about the only fourteen-year-old boy in the First Church of Christ the Spiritualist . |
| 23 | ’ The people who do it even though they can afford it are the worst , but I am far more concerned about the victims — the shops than I am about the people who carry out the crime . |
| 24 | I am about the only person who ca n't speak Portuguese here , even knows Spanish well , and is giving his course in Spanish . |
| 25 | If you are for the latter , shout out Aye . |
| 26 | By contrast , the metaphysical question of what the preconditions are for the world 's being accessible to thought was uppermost for Plato and Aristotle . |
| 27 | Decor and furnishing are for the 1990s styles , insulation is even better than the Mark 3s and passengers with special needs are catered for as , for example , mother and baby facilities and disabled toilets . |
| 28 | It still seems to me that the acting critics of poesy are for the most part incapable of looking for more than one thing at a time , having got started about 1913 ( I mean a few of ‘ em got started about 1913 and a lot have started since ) to look for a certain plainness and directness of speech and simple order of words ; and having about 1918 got started looking for Mr Eliot 's rather more fragile system ( a system excellent for Mr Eliot but not very much use to any one else ) , they now limit their criticism to inquiring whether or no verse conforms to one or other of these manners , thereby often omitting to notice fundamentals , or qualities as important as verbal directness and even more important than ‘ snap ’ . |
| 29 | These figures are for the fibres alone . |
| 30 | Few of the learned tomes that have been written are for the domestic consumer and contain few , if any , recipes to lighten the technical detail . |