Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could pick up a seat by knowing the right people , having gone to the right school or being thought to be worth a few thousand — almost the first question put to the prospective MP for Richmond , Sir George Harvie-Watt , when he went up before the local selection committee in 1937 was whether he would subscribe £700 to the local association . |
| 2 | If anyone is offering decent odds it could be worth a few quid |
| 3 | ‘ The national media attention given to Pwllheli , in the run-up to the final decision , must be worth a few million pounds in advertising terms alone . ’ |
| 4 | Well I mean that 'll that might be worth a few marks . |
| 5 | If it is not , and the garage or other body running the extended warranty scheme goes out of business , the warranty will be worth no more than the paper it is written on . |
| 6 | From my viewpoint , major upgrades have to be worth the few pounds it might cost . |
| 7 | Under many circumstances , the evolutionarily stable allocation to male and female reproductive functions should be about the same . |
| 8 | Last year 's deficit was about £125 million ( although this compares well with the comparable figure for the UK which is almost three times higher ) and this year the deficit will probably be about the same . |
| 9 | The set part of the sentence should be about the same length as the variable part which is used to finish it . |
| 10 | His kids must be about the same age . ’ |
| 11 | The natural litter of the foster mother should be about the same age as the animals to be fostered . |
| 12 | It would be expected that if there was no right field advantage for a stimulus then the RFA would be aproximately 0.5 as the values for the left and right visual field would be about the same . |
| 13 | Their only conceptual connection was that someone ( often a foreign observer ) had produced numbers about one phenomenon that could be correlated with numbers from other societies purporting to be about the same phenomenon . |
| 14 | So good rule is work out the easy one first , now they 're going to be about the same , erm , otherwise they would n't be asking |
| 15 | The second youth was said to be about the same age and was wearing a bright coloured top . |
| 16 | Right and again ten years , monthly premium , and that will be about the same , about ten pounds a month , something like that ? |
| 17 | If any one of his rules was broken — and he had a number — he would put a notice on his front door which said that the offender was scartata , rejected ; it could be for a few days or anything up to a fortnight . |
| 18 | It would only be for a few days , of course . |
| 19 | To the people from the people who 've gone home ob we hope this 'll only be for a few days and some have gone er to other homes just for the time being . |
| 20 | Well it 'd be for the this angle if you extended it so it 'd be eight divided by the three sixty is n't it ? |
| 21 | I had always imagined that when I finally lost my virginity , it would be for the same reason I smoked and drank , because it would have seemed unsophisticated not to . |
| 22 | Different people solving slightly different problems in separate rooms create no difficulty — until they come to communicate their solutions , which are assumed to be for the same problem . |
| 23 | A sweet young thing from Smash Hits is n't going to be after the same kind of material as some cerebral haircut boy from Melody Maker or a hack from your local paper . |
| 24 | On this view , understandably , animals would be of no more worth in themselves than drugs or edifying books that produced the same effect . |
| 25 | The fact of Jesus ’ maleness then would seem to be of no more import than is his or her sexuality in the case of any other human being . |
| 26 | Without them we had been , as formerly , a Prey to every petty Invader ; and the flourishing Empire of Great-Britain would be of no more consequence in Europe than the petty Republick of Lucca in Italy . |
| 27 | If temporary workers are to be brought in , they will press for them to be of the latter category . |
| 28 | While Mulroney appeared to represent the former when he was elected , he has in fact turned out to be of the latter kind , and that exposed position may also have contributed to his loss of support . |
| 29 | The mind puts together certain things and deems them to be of the same kind . |
| 30 | Hopes that a woman would make it to the last hurdle are receding as the Soviets have made it clear they would like the two candidates to be of the same sex . |