Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few jobs are easy to get these days and , if you have set your sights on advertising , it must be worth extra effort . |
| 2 | Nice pair of earrings there , should be worth five pounds on their own . |
| 3 | TRIES will be worth five points in the new rugby season , and three-day county championship matches may be scrapped in next year 's cricket season . |
| 4 | The try is to be worth five points while the drop goal will count for two points . |
| 5 | I remember that my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian challenged the Prime Minister to comment on the increase , and he answered that the chairman must be worth that salary . |
| 6 | Okay that would be worth one mark . |
| 7 | Or should they hang on in the hope that these assets will soon be worth serious money ? |
| 8 | The programme will be worth 380 MECU of Community funds and , according to the Common Position , the breakdown between the different application areas will be : |
| 9 | Whereas in one , an iron axehead may be a tool used for woodworking and cutting down trees , in another it may be a unit of value — a cow might be worth two axeheads , for example . |
| 10 | To be worth two murders in eight days , Ascot had to be more than a mere gambling scam . |
| 11 | In October 1989 a member of the Executive Council , Tony Blake , reported that four oil companies had approached Fullerton seeking oil exploration licences ; he commented that the sale of such licences could be worth several times as much as the revenue from fishing licences . |
| 12 | A marble and a stalls back seat could be worth several minutes of noisy bagatelle . |
| 13 | Could it be worth this pain ? |
| 14 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 15 | Even when it was declared to be worth twenty-one shillings in 1717 it was undervalued ; silver coins were exported to India where their value was still high , or to Amsterdam where they could be melted down and exchanged for gold , and Britain moved inadvertently to a gold standard . |
| 16 | The new peso would be worth 10,000 australes or the equivalent of one US dollar , in line with " dollarization " . |
| 17 | At a stroke the gold reserves in Fort Knox would be worth more dollars , thus improving backing for the dollar ; gold reserves for other central banks would be worth more , encouraging them to accumulate further interest-earning dollar reserves ; gold production would be stimulated and private demand reduced ( as industry tried to economize and speculators took their profits ) , allowing countries to absorb additional gold into their reserves . |
| 18 | Mr Bland said that if LWT manages to retain its franchise , the new shares will be worth three times as much as they are now . |
| 19 | Hell Hound on my Trail is given E4 5c and is said to be worth three stars . |
| 20 | A similar boost to the imports of Eastern Europe ( excluding the Soviet Union ) would be worth some $7.5billion a year for five years . |
| 21 | The stockpile will be worth some £400 million by 1985 , if spending targets are met . |
| 22 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1bn by 1997/98 . |
| 23 | The Unix systems management market is thought to be worth some $40m now — its expected to top $1,000m by 1997-98 . |
| 24 | I will send the hon. Gentleman a copy of the Strathclyde programme , which will be worth some £20 million ecu , which is £15 million . |
| 25 | The Financial Times of Nov. 27 , 1989 , reported that the United Kingdom was seeking to arrange a £2,000 million bank loan to finance Saudi Arabia 's continued purchase of British arms under the massive Al-Yamamah arms deal first agreed in 1985 and expanded in 1988 [ see pp. 34012 ; 36312 ; 36952 ] , chiefly involving the purchase of Tornado fighter-bombers built by British Aerospace ( BAe ) and currently estimated to be worth some £20,000 million . |
| 26 | 1991 saw total Unix systems revenue in Europe climb to $6.9bn from $6bn in 1990. 1991 's growth of 15% is two points up on 1990 's 13% — IDC predicts a mean compound annual growth rate ( CAGR ) of 14% for the next six years , by which time it believes the European market will be worth some $16.3bn . |
| 27 | Should be worth ten pounds for it . |
| 28 | Should be worth ten pounds for it . |
| 29 | Roger , Lord North , admitted that as a subsidy commissioner he had let men off lightly in Cambridgeshire : everyone was known to be worth ten times his assessment in goods and six times in land ; some were worth twenty or thirty times their assessments . |
| 30 | A design on this sort of scale would be worth ten times the run-of-the-mill jobs she had completed just recently . |