Example sentences of "be [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That dusty old painting on the wall could well be worth a small fortune once inside an auction house . |
| 2 | As your pension is normally ultimately based on the size of your salary when you retire , the two years ' worth of added rights could still be worth a tidy amount . |
| 3 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
| 4 | I knew anything of Dad 's — anything — would be worth a great might hundred dollars . |
| 5 | What has not been developed to the same extent is the suggestiveness of his work on the novel for theories of genre , a suggestiveness which I will only touch on here , but which seems to me to be worth a great deal more investigation and discussion . |
| 6 | When they bought them from me , I said , ‘ For the next ten to fifteen years do n't sell these , because by then they will be worth a great deal ’ . |
| 7 | American investors were the big buyers , mainly sophisticated funds prepared to gamble that GPA would cling to life or prove to be worth a substantial sum broken up . |
| 8 | They were very much caught up in the opinion that if they were an indie band , it could n't possibly be worth a major record company taking them seriously . |
| 9 | ‘ This place would n't be worth a twopenny fart after that little incident . ’ |
| 10 | It seemed to be about a young woman , thinking aloud as she went about her home doing her chores . |
| 11 | Now the more certain that we want to be about a particular inference , right , the smaller is the significance level . |
| 12 | Like a dutiful citizen , I checked in with the Usher and he looked at his clipboard and said there would be about a fifteen-minute wait , so why did n't I take a seat ? |
| 13 | You should dig a pit a yard deep ; for comfort while digging , this will need to be about a square yard in area . |
| 14 | The ‘ splitting off of consciousness ’ , and the alien , critical attitudes which result , help to account for departures from convention which are particularly marked in women 's writing at many points throughout the twentieth century , and continue to be as a strong area of postmodernist development . |
| 15 | cf. Ps. 28 : ‘ Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house : thy children like olive plants round about thy table . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I reckon his best chance would be as a goal-kicking winger but I do n't want him in this role for Widnes . |
| 17 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |
| 18 | There had been so much misfortune that to endure any more would be as a dumb beast might endure it ; and what would become of Dinah and the child ? |
| 19 | If this man had another career it must be as a professional singer . |
| 20 | The importance of food to the family can be as a social process or a centre around which all family communication and interaction takes place . |
| 21 | This can be as a senior executive , trainer or educator |
| 22 | The first will be for a standard way to support multimedia applications under Unix . |
| 23 | The first will be for a standard way to support multi-media applications under Unix . |
| 24 | the tenancy must be for a minimum period of six months |
| 25 | The cheapest will be with a junior instructor in a large ride and the top rate will be for a private lesson with the chief instructor . |
| 26 | Present employment law restricts the effect of such a covenant in a service agreement , but if inserted in the subscription and shareholders ' agreement , it is more likely to be enforceable. ( 3 ) The service agreement will be for a fixed term so that the managers are locked in for that period . |
| 27 | Although it is true that warrants must be for a fixed period and may not be open-ended , the period in question is a relatively long one and may exceed the purposes for which the warrant is initially granted . |
| 28 | This would apply only to a juvenile already in care of a local authority and then found guilty of a further imprisonable offence , and would be for a fixed period of not more than six months . |
| 29 | According to them , to accept the legitimacy of an authority is simply to accept that whatever other reasons there may be for a certain action , its being required by the authority is an additional reason for its performance . |
| 30 | It might be for a certain amount of time while they do so and so and then , what can he do ? |