Example sentences of "[be] [prep] the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its procedures often seemed too specific to be worth the candle of locking someone up . |
| 2 | Because stores need to restock hot CDs quickly , the savings from buying abroad would not be worth the delay in delivery . |
| 3 | That movement alone would be worth the price of this CD . |
| 4 | ‘ It might be worth the price of a new car to get away from you ! ’ she seethed , letting off the handbrake . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Undaunted I was sure it would be worth the effort of breaking them in — and it was . |
| 7 | If you have large draughty windows on the east- and north-facing walls , it might be worth the expense for the resulting extra comfort . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In a very rich catalogue of experience , the Great Patriotic War may be worth the balance of the collection . |
| 10 | In such cases it would be worth the trouble of introducing worms from elsewhere . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In practice , that would have to be about the level at which sterling was trading in the foreign exchange markets . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | I am hoping that ‘ Oh Brother ’ or ‘ Teach In ’ will be about the ribber in the not too distant future ! |
| 15 | Would , this would be about the turn of the century ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The first sentence in this paragraph , for example , indicates that the discussion is to be about the change from one paragraph to another . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Satellite observations reveal the area of major ozone loss to be about the size of the United States . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The fibres need to be about the diameter of human hair . |
| 24 | And what can there be about the arrangement of a few slices of sausage and a dozen black olives on a dish brought by the waitress in the seaside café to keep you occupied while your fish is cooking that makes you feel that this is the first time you have seen and tasted a black olive and a piece of sausage ? |
| 25 | Perhaps your next issue should be about the arbitrariness of categories . |
| 26 | He would come out with lines like , ‘ Let your words to God be as the noise of Esau ! ’ |
| 27 | But it must be as the result of Labour pressure — and clearly seen as such . |
| 28 | It 's travelling at one mph and SHOULD be off the motorway by 7.00 pm tonight , with the road opening an hour later . |
| 29 | I doubt if I 'll be off the hook for long . |
| 30 | I think you ought to be off the deaf-aid by now . ’ |