Example sentences of "[be] [prep] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | That dusty old painting on the wall could well be worth a small fortune once inside an auction house . |
2 | As your pension is normally ultimately based on the size of your salary when you retire , the two years ' worth of added rights could still be worth a tidy amount . |
3 | MADONNA 's new contract with Warner Brothers is said to be worth a cool $60 million . |
4 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
5 | Over one year , a £10 a month investment would be worth a respectable £143.26 now , if it could have been placed in the same hypothetical fund . |
6 | I knew anything of Dad 's — anything — would be worth a great might hundred dollars . |
7 | What has not been developed to the same extent is the suggestiveness of his work on the novel for theories of genre , a suggestiveness which I will only touch on here , but which seems to me to be worth a great deal more investigation and discussion . |
8 | When they bought them from me , I said , ‘ For the next ten to fifteen years do n't sell these , because by then they will be worth a great deal ’ . |
9 | American investors were the big buyers , mainly sophisticated funds prepared to gamble that GPA would cling to life or prove to be worth a substantial sum broken up . |
10 | They were very much caught up in the opinion that if they were an indie band , it could n't possibly be worth a major record company taking them seriously . |
11 | ‘ This place would n't be worth a twopenny fart after that little incident . ’ |
12 | The title is reckoned to be worth an extra 50,000lbs in sales , so competition will be hot . |
13 | From April 1991 , deficits on all local authority hostels met by Government subsidies will be worth an extra £1 billion a year . |
14 | Your roll of wire will be worth an exploratory dig , tools become toys to be kicked around and chewed , and your jumper which you foolishly left hanging on the fence is now going to suffer a life-threatening crisis . |
15 | It seemed to be about a young woman , thinking aloud as she went about her home doing her chores . |
16 | Now the more certain that we want to be about a particular inference , right , the smaller is the significance level . |
17 | Like a dutiful citizen , I checked in with the Usher and he looked at his clipboard and said there would be about a fifteen-minute wait , so why did n't I take a seat ? |
18 | You should dig a pit a yard deep ; for comfort while digging , this will need to be about a square yard in area . |
19 | The issue may be about an undesirable friendship , being out late at night , buying a motor bike , drinking alcohol , and so on . . |
20 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |
21 | The ‘ splitting off of consciousness ’ , and the alien , critical attitudes which result , help to account for departures from convention which are particularly marked in women 's writing at many points throughout the twentieth century , and continue to be as a strong area of postmodernist development . |
22 | cf. Ps. 28 : ‘ Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house : thy children like olive plants round about thy table . ’ |
23 | ‘ I reckon his best chance would be as a goal-kicking winger but I do n't want him in this role for Widnes . |
24 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |
25 | There had been so much misfortune that to endure any more would be as a dumb beast might endure it ; and what would become of Dinah and the child ? |
26 | If this man had another career it must be as a professional singer . |
27 | The importance of food to the family can be as a social process or a centre around which all family communication and interaction takes place . |
28 | This can be as a senior executive , trainer or educator |
29 | Spooner picked up on this idea and thought the best way to do it would be as an extended Perils of Pauline -type adventure , complete with ‘ How are they going to get out of that ? ’ endings . |
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