Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at the time I felt rejected and useless , because I was n't needed in the way I had been for so long. , |
| 2 | The medals are worth around £2,000 . |
| 3 | Some rings , like this solitaire diamond , are worth almost £2,000 . |
| 4 | Let us further assume that the shares were and are worth only £50,000 . |
| 5 | World official gold reserves are worth about $350 billion at today 's prices . |
| 6 | The wasps are worth about $7000 . |
| 7 | Capra 's parallels are between not hypotheses but concepts , for example the ch'i and the quantum field . |
| 8 | I think it 's absolutely essential that West and North , and those bits of North that join West and are equally deprived , like Ardoyne , Oldpark , Duncairn , should be classified as an area of special economic assistance , special IDB support , special funding to ensure that whatever jobs are about when industrialists do appear here from the Koreas , the Japans , the West Germanys and wherever else , that they are taken in here and are told that they would get 10 , 15 , 20% extra for coming in here . |
| 9 | Cronenberg himself has commented that The Fly and others of his films are about how viruses deform bodies , and that his originality lies in that he is ‘ on the side of the virus ’ . |
| 10 | Art and science are about how man makes sense of the world he lives in . |
| 11 | There have been times when horses have made me feel like I 'm talking Japanese backwards , which does n't do a lot for your confidence . |
| 12 | There had been times when Cadfael had both departed and returned by night , without passing the gatehouse , on urgent matters in which he found justification for absence . |
| 13 | Nearly four years have passed since The Satanic Verses was declared blasphemous by the late Ayatollah Khomeini , and during this long period of internal exile there must have been times when Rushdie , experiencing deep changes and wrenches in the soul , has wondered at the prescience of those words . |
| 14 | ‘ A few years ago this painting would have been worth about £3 million , now it is a third of that . ’ |
| 15 | The Sandinistas recognise that perestroika will bring changes in their relationship with Moscow , which has in recent years been worth around £625m annually , according to European diplomats . |
| 16 | and , but if any of them are of not U K origin |
| 17 | So , because we were in the A A he said you could have a ba , and we had to go to court , we had a summons for court , for careless driving , your dad and your dad said oh so A A said you could have barrister , or our insurers said we could have a barrister our insurers , not the one with we 're with now Norman , he was to do all the , said we could have this barrister and it was at Liverpool Crown Court and , it was n't till a , and I was alright we we just got a bit of a shock , you know , we could drive the home it was the wing and what not . |
| 18 | A : ‘ How could you do the Anfield Rap when you 're from just south of the Watford Gap . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Are you doing anything else while you 're over here Major ? ’ the other one asked . |
| 20 | They 're at least £200 new . |
| 21 | If this card had been with either North or South the slam would have been a 75-per-cent chance . |
| 22 | ‘ Lots of them did n't , ’ said Lee , running down the passage and into the kitchen that Philip had been in yesterday morning where Mrs Wright had given him a cup of tea . |
| 23 | The Venn diagram distance between x and y is the number of elements of S which are in either x or y , but not in both : |
| 24 | Erm so we were saying for example , and this is what we , we 'd actually come up with , the five days of the week , and the three categories of staff , I mean I 've just obviously put erm C L As are in either C L or E O really |
| 25 | The support of the staff and their willingness to adjust their provision and their reaction , clearly demonstrates that given the proper approach teachers are in both principle and practice more willing to review their methods and sustain alternatives than is usually acknowledged . |
| 26 | Every time this matter 's been before either committee or council there has been a majority in favour of the merger principles . |
| 27 | Of course they never came out and he was left with three digital watches which , in the cold light of day , turned out to be worth approximately 99p each retail , 30p wholesale . |
| 28 | After his victory at Auberoche , prisoners were taken whose ransoms were said to be worth over £50,000 , and in 1346 , according to Froissart , Lancaster 's army returned from a raid into Poitou so laden with riches that they had difficulty in transporting all their gains . |
| 29 | Terms of the agreement were not disclosed , but observers say the deal must be worth over £200m . |
| 30 | Since it was believed to be worth over £13,000 it was an amazing bargain , but one which was available only to a purchaser with immense cash reserves . |