Example sentences of "[be] [prep] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ed King was busily erecting the cage we 'd had in Covent Garden ; it was proving to be worth every penny of the £250 we 'd paid for it . |
| 2 | Prior to the coup attempt the applications approved by the Philippine Board of Investments for 1989 had increased by 128 per cent to be worth a total of $781,600,000 . |
| 3 | They must be worth a mint of money . |
| 4 | In June 1989 Burmin estimated the deposit it had discovered on Croagh Patrick might be worth a minimum of £30 million . |
| 5 | GOLF 'S 1993 European Volvo Tour will be worth £24.75 million , a 12.5 per cent increase for 39 events in 19 different countries — 16 of which will be worth a minimum of £600,000 . |
| 6 | They could be worth a lot of money one day . |
| 7 | However , your pension may be worth a lot of money and , especially as you approach retirement , it is important that you should know the main essentials , including any options that may still be available to you . |
| 8 | gon na be worth a lot of money , with some people you 've got to give them a couple of free tickets |
| 9 | You have a case here which must be worth a lot of money , yet there is argument over whether somebody needs an electric toothbrush , how many toilet tissues he is going to use , etc . ’ |
| 10 | This tapes gon na be worth a lot of money is n't it . |
| 11 | That 's I want , do n't do n't chuck old and ancient things away that might be worth a lot of money later on . |
| 12 | Its procedures often seemed too specific to be worth the candle of locking someone up . |
| 13 | That movement alone would be worth the price of this CD . |
| 14 | ‘ It might be worth the price of a new car to get away from you ! ’ she seethed , letting off the handbrake . |
| 15 | If the job is very important it may be worth the cost of sending some one whose work you know well to cover the assignment . |
| 16 | Undaunted I was sure it would be worth the effort of breaking them in — and it was . |
| 17 | There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages . |
| 18 | In a very rich catalogue of experience , the Great Patriotic War may be worth the balance of the collection . |
| 19 | In such cases it would be worth the trouble of introducing worms from elsewhere . |
| 20 | Yet , the benefit inherent in a holder 's right to sue the carrier may well be worth the burden of having to pay unpaid freight . |
| 21 | It is therefore plausible that this pulsar should be detectable as a γ -ray source ; if its γ -ray luminosity is the same fraction of its total energy-loss rate as for the Vela pulsar , then it should be about a factor of 20 less bright than Vela . |
| 22 | Descartes believed firmly that universals were formed in the mind and that ideas possessed ‘ objective ’ and ‘ formal ’ reality ; that is , that it was an irreducible feature of ideas that they were able to be about a class of objects . |
| 23 | ‘ At least the French are doing their best to kill the whole stupid thing off for good , ’ the heroine remarks ; and when her lover solemnly tells her that modern fiction can only be about the difficulty of writing fiction , she asks why writers bother to put their names on title-pages . |
| 24 | Would , this would be about the turn of the century ? |
| 25 | The philosophy of the journal is that screening should be about the prevention of disability and disease , not simply the early detection of disease as an end in itself . |
| 26 | If an atom were to be magnified to 100 metres diameter , the size of a large concert hall , then the nucleus in its centre would be about the size of a grain of salt . |
| 27 | If we could somehow persuade our planet to become a black hole , it would be about the size of a marble — but still possessing all the mass of the original Earth . |
| 28 | Rather than disturb the patients at the hospital any more , Ace and Petion had followed the Marines to their staging area at the customs receivership , which Ace judged to be about the size of an aircraft hangar . |
| 29 | Satellite observations reveal the area of major ozone loss to be about the size of the United States . |
| 30 | The core of Barth 's theology is not that God is in principle unknowable , nor yet that man is an arrogant sinner who , left to himself , will ever be about the business of fashioning golden calves to worship , but that God has crossed the infinite gulf in Jesus Christ to claim man as his friend and partner . |