Example sentences of "[is] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ It 's been a long time coming , but it 's worth the wait , ’ said Mr Hill , dubbed ‘ Champagne Charlie ’ by family and friend because of his winning ways . |
| 32 | Of Jodie 's it does note that parking might be a problem but stresses it 's worth the walk to find bar food of refreshing quality offering both variety and value . |
| 33 | But it 's worth the gamble . |
| 34 | I think that 's worth the effort , yes . |
| 35 | Perhaps er school children could be brought in when the theatre start 's during the day who actually see how the theatre runs see what theatre 's all about and they might be interested in the theatre . . |
| 36 | Erm but if it 's during the day I 'm not going to be able to get there . |
| 37 | Well what if it 's during the assembly ! |
| 38 | So I then , I do n't stipulate whether that 's during the week though or whether that 's at the weekend because I , I agree with what 's been said about they 're , they 're more productive during the weekend cos they do n't get the interruptions |
| 39 | What did they actually make at Bradley 's during the war years ? |
| 40 | That 's during the war yes and er , of course this is the first world war I were referring to and erm , the people appreciated this and we used to give it to them like you know . |
| 41 | He created an amicabilis concordia with Queen Mary College , London ( evacuated to King 's during the war ) , and another with Berkeley College , Yale , where his contemporary at King 's , Charles Seymour , was president . |
| 42 | Again like Miles , his path had crossed with Ginsberg 's during the poet 's 1965 visit . |
| 43 | It is about the possibility of learning . |
| 44 | So the report is about the possibility of a grand enterprise . |
| 45 | In his novel Fathers and Children which ( as the title suggests ) is about the generation gap , Turgenev pinned ‘ nihilist ’ to the son Bazarov . |
| 46 | Now the view er was that they were dignified and above taking action and also in the sense that the public was credited I think with more sense than to believe everything and that the public memory is relatively short and therefore if you start a court action and you then have coverage in the court action , you are merely making the thing worse erm sometimes the things that some people may have thought were highly actionable one day , become almost a joke and something of affection later on and you can , one of the classics maybe is about the Prince of Wales talking to his plants , now that a national joke and he will make jokes about it in speeches |
| 47 | It is about the enjoyment of language through speaking and joking and ‘ creative ’ writing : poetry , stories , diary-keeping , letter-writing . |
| 48 | Another common complaint from editors is about the release which gives the impression , perhaps without actually saying so , that the product or service is a new one . |
| 49 | It is about the interaction of energy and matter , cause and effect , understanding phenomena . |
| 50 | Let us suppose that following incorporation the partners award themselves salaries of £43,500 which is about the level required to ensure that tax on the salary does not exceed the basic 25% rate . |
| 51 | In the translation , each assertion is about the space which the original task searches . |
| 52 | The implant is about the size of a saucer , 3.5 inches ( 9cm ) across and an inch deep . |
| 53 | Selling space in a hypermarket is about the size of a … |
| 54 | The human heart is about the size of a fist and is a muscle filled with blood . |
| 55 | Each spring is about the size of a swimming pool and produces enough helium for use , after liquefaction , at the Cyclotron ( small nuclear accelerator ) in Calcutta . |
| 56 | The marking device is in the form of a microchip , enclosed within a tiny container which is about the size of a rice grain . |
| 57 | So I was able to make excursions throughout the state , which is about the size of Hampshire , admiring its astonishing number of traditional country houses , and enjoying the company of many of their owners . |
| 58 | You take the biggest of the logs , which is about the size of a man 's arm , and walk softly across the room to the bedroom door . |
| 59 | One is about the size of or the half size of a football . |
| 60 | Can you identify this hammered silver coin , which is about the size of a 10p piece ( 29mm ) ? |