Example sentences of "be [prep] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother hovers on the brink of life , not knowing whether her heroic struggle will be worth even a fraction of the effort she expends . |
| 2 | They must be worth quite a bit — in America . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You 're famous all over the Far East , so a story about how you kept a secret concubine in Taipei should be worth quite a bit . ’ |
| 4 | So you 'll be worth quite a bit dead ? |
| 5 | In addition to personal financial interests , there may be times when a councillor has a personal interest in a matter other than a financial one , which may influence his consideration of that matter . |
| 6 | There will be times when a fish bait will be the best way of catching big bream , but it will never be the best way all the time , or even most of the time . |
| 7 | Maybe P and Q and R behave alike , but there may be times when the algorithm folds a set { P , Q , R } where , say , Q sometimes occurs in a context which never contains P or R. The algorithm looks for any context which contains some of X 's children but not the others . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , where land is cropped regularly , there are bound to be times when the soil life is reduced or inhibited to a point where it fails to rebuild the damaged structure . |
| 9 | With processors galloping at 66MHz it means that there will be times when the processor is held back waiting for a slow peripheral to catch up . |
| 10 | Marketing is about responding , but there must be times when the response will be in the negative . |
| 11 | There will be times when the movement will be in reverse . |
| 12 | When assessing the financial rewards , it is wise to assume that there will be times when the accommodation is empty — so you will not be receiving any rent . |
| 13 | But the long-term trend in those areas in which the public interest in regulation ( or possibly politicians ' exposure to public criticism ) is perceived to be greatest , seems to be for both the volume of regulation and the role of government in it to increase . |
| 14 | It was supposed to be for just a day , or maybe two , but it has already been a week … ’ |
| 15 | And now that I 'm home for good , at least my bookings abroad will be for just a week or so at a time , that 's all , well … we 're coming together . |
| 16 | It wo n't be for about a year and a half though . |
| 17 | They know that it would be almost impossible for them , even though it would be for only a week , after which they could return to their comfortable lives . |
| 18 | Yet this apparently admirable material proved to be of almost no use to the party . |
| 19 | What 'll it be like when the public come through the door ? |
| 20 | You can have no idea at all what the weather will be like when the plants arrive : it could be wet and the soil like a quagmire , it could be too dry , or frozen hard , and planting quite out of the question . |
| 21 | We are losing our liberties and our heritage and he declared ‘ I tremble what Ulster will be like when the children in our homes reach the years I have reached . |
| 22 | ‘ Have you thought what the atmosphere will be like once the building starts ? ’ |
| 23 | Isabel wondered if he knew how intimidating he could be with just a look , and decided fitzAlan was fully aware of his effect on her . |
| 24 | We used the same criteria as the Booker Prize — namely the writer must be from either the UK , Ireland or the Commonwealth . |
| 25 | And I go in there and I have lov , I can be in there an hour ! |
| 26 | Outwardly he could be in almost every way a Scotland Yard senior officer . |
| 27 | The only way Masefield can make this credible is to present her as a kind of child-bride , a happy innocent ; necessary as this may be to both the theme and the plot of the book , it does not allow her to develop beyond the limits of a type-character . |
| 28 | This , to repeat a point made earlier , does not mean that their sole role must be to further the interest of each or of all their subjects . |
| 29 | The effect of such storage may be on either the package or the product or both and these effects may be classified as follows . |
| 30 | As the distance is too far by road , it is impossible to be at both the start and the finish of the race unless you are actually taking part . |