Example sentences of "be [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that may be worth a go if you 've got some Permitabs left . |
| 2 | I mean that might be worth a query if the Finance Committee are sort of erm er er worrying about the heating . |
| 3 | Er all very good , stay in control , excellent , very polished erm yeah y you 'd be worth an A but you 've only got C. |
| 4 | No I was saying to her I 'd probably have one more before I go anyway and er I 'm , I 'm gon na ask her if she with my , cos at that nana 's there , I mean there 'll be four of us there , it might be worth an hour and a quarter drive |
| 5 | Er it 'll probably be about a fortnight before we get it back , okay ? |
| 6 | But my recollection of him will be as a friend and food expert . |
| 7 | Moreover , if the Withington mosaic is to be associated with the work of this group ( at the integral level ) it must be as a parallel or subsequent development . |
| 8 | The truth was revealed only by chance , when a journalist for the US magazine Sports Illustrated happened to be aboard a boat when it hauled up seven dead porpoises , caught in a single set . |
| 9 | And so it can be for a building or a workbench . |
| 10 | The innovation may be for a building or construction project which was completed between 1 January 1987 and 12 October 1990 . |
| 11 | The words tumbled over each other in her eagerness. ‘ 'T WOULD only be for a day or so while I try to get a message to the Queen . |
| 12 | Margot is always splendid on these occasions ; she took me back to the house and covered me with ice and raw beef : but in spite of all I am a most revolting sight today and shall be for a week or more — lame in one leg , blind in one eye , and with a nose like Cyrano … |
| 13 | It would , after all , only be for a week or so , after that they were due back at Purley . |
| 14 | The sort of applications which we might wish to make in the future would be for an example that an interim payment be made out of the money in court or that the money be transferred to the public trust office , we do n't know how we should proceed yet , but if we are at liberty to apply generally |
| 15 | The fact that she is basically thinking in terms of the resurrected , cosmic Christ again tends to minimize any distinction which there might be between a woman and Christ in regard to sex . |
| 16 | It can not tell us how wide a managerial layer should be , what the difference in responsibility should be between a manager and a subordinate , or , most important , where the break should come between one managerial layer and another . |
| 17 | It could be through an art-form or simply by a love of nature . |
| 18 | Ideally , the marker trees would be of a species that was foreign to , or rare in , the area , and easy to distinguish by form and size at all seasons . |
| 19 | The anti-recording position assumes that a sound recording is literally a record of a live event , a memento of it , as a snapshot might be of a holiday or a family event . |
| 20 | But clearly some immoralities may be of a kind that no government has authority to commit . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , they appear to be of a type that would be used in the manufacture of bulk chemicals . ’ |
| 22 | They should also be of a type that has simple and quickly altered bridle trimming . |
| 23 | Now there are two ways that the new composite sentence token will be of a type that is eventually to acquire a constant significance . |
| 24 | Compare now the vastly more plausible second way in which the new composite sentence token may be of a type that is to acquire constant significance . |
| 25 | The subject matter will be of a general and commercial nature . |
| 26 | It would certainly appear to be of a representative or commemorative character however , which would make it one of the earliest of such scenes in Britain ( the most likely candidate for this honour is a possible chariot scene , from Exeter : Bidwell 1979 , pI . |
| 27 | The males to be vasectomized should be of a strain or genotype with a good breeding performance . |
| 28 | Now he 's there it should almost be like a holiday because he is required only to do what he is good at — getting tight on the opposition and setting up England 's creative players . |
| 29 | ‘ This one will be like a Manchester or Merseyside derby — with one set of fans missing . |
| 30 | Then that 'll go through to Turners so I mean it could be like a fortnight after they 've been okayed . |