Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " 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 The exceptions are sufficiently rare to be worth a study on their own ; it was quite a challenge for designers to make effective use of a relatively small circular area with a hole in the middle .
7 They could be worth a lot of money one day .
8 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 .
9 gon na be worth a lot of money , with some people you 've got to give them a couple of free tickets
10 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 . ’
11 This tapes gon na be worth a lot of money is n't it .
12 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 .
13 Its procedures often seemed too specific to be worth the candle of locking someone up .
14 Because stores need to restock hot CDs quickly , the savings from buying abroad would not be worth the delay in delivery .
15 That movement alone would be worth the price of this CD .
16 ‘ It might be worth the price of a new car to get away from you ! ’ she seethed , letting off the handbrake .
17 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 .
18 Undaunted I was sure it would be worth the effort of breaking them in — and it was .
19 If you have large draughty windows on the east- and north-facing walls , it might be worth the expense for the resulting extra comfort .
20 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 .
21 In a very rich catalogue of experience , the Great Patriotic War may be worth the balance of the collection .
22 In such cases it would be worth the trouble of introducing worms from elsewhere .
23 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 .
24 If he was to catch thee , all thy fighting skills would n't be worth an ounce o' flea shit . ’
25 Billy Rock who has Listowel in mind for his smart and successful chaser Joey Kelly runs the gelding on Monday and he will go again at the next Roscommon meeting a fortnight later before travelling to Listowel where he might be worth an investment in view of that Galway win in July .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 In practice , that would have to be about the level at which sterling was trading in the foreign exchange markets .
29 ‘ 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 .
30 I am hoping that ‘ Oh Brother ’ or ‘ Teach In ’ will be about the ribber in the not too distant future !
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