Example sentences of "be [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few jobs are easy to get these days and , if you have set your sights on advertising , it must be worth extra effort . |
| 2 | I remember that my hon. Friend the Member for Midlothian challenged the Prime Minister to comment on the increase , and he answered that the chairman must be worth that salary . |
| 3 | Okay that would be worth one mark . |
| 4 | Or should they hang on in the hope that these assets will soon be worth serious money ? |
| 5 | The programme will be worth 380 MECU of Community funds and , according to the Common Position , the breakdown between the different application areas will be : |
| 6 | Could it be worth this pain ? |
| 7 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 8 | If the politics of the eighties has been characterised by Mrs Thatcher 's confrontational style , Mr Kinnock believes the politics of the nineties must be about international negotiation and co-operation . |
| 9 | The training in on offer appears to be about increasing management capabilities and if you do n't want to go down that road there is a problem , for there is a significant and genuine gap between the expectation of school boards and how their task was perceived by the Scottish Office . |
| 10 | Yeah , and what did you get you see , you get mutations going on in plants so that you get at the moment when the plants themselves are altered , it does n't necessary , necessary mean that they 're killed off , it does n't necessary mean that they are killed off , it means that the actual genes alter , that they go on breathing so you get ginormous sort of cabbages , you know , cabbages that 'll normally be about that size , suddenly become that size |
| 11 | Locust , locust beans they 'd be about that length , they used to be just like a brown bean , they were dry . |
| 12 | This concluded that the maximum tolerable risk of death to a member of the public from a modern industrial process should be about one chance in 10,000 per annum . |
| 13 | The cost would probably be about one year 's salary of such an assistant , but it does not recur . |
| 14 | The maximal aerobic speed , that is the maximal speed that can be maintained without incurring an oxygen debt , appears generally to be about one half of the maximal running speed . |
| 15 | The tension used for weaving should usually be about one number looser than that which is normally used for stocking stitch . |
| 16 | The love poetry of Saadi and Hafiz though seeming to be about physical love was really about transcendent love . |
| 17 | Julia was horrified , thinking that the last thing David 's mother would want to hear just then would be about another woman 's wish to be with her husband . |
| 18 | And it ca n't by definition be about sexual liberation simply because it duplicates and exploits those same power relationships . ’ |
| 19 | It pretends to be about local government when it is nothing of the sort . |
| 20 | Embarrassment , it seems clear , is a major concern of the British psyche , and the dreams the British dream , if opinion-polls are to be believed , tend to be about social embarrassment , with amorous fantasy playing only a disappointingly minor role ; and if that is to be taken in evidence , then it may be said to represent a more powerful obsession than sex . |
| 21 | ‘ The new approach will be about direct generation of business . ’ |
| 22 | It would be during this period that those first stirrings of mental activity in the mind of primitive man which were ruthless evolution , were having a profound effect on the development of his mind , long before he was able to give practical effect to them . |
| 23 | Yeah could be off this pork farm , oh no he 'd kee he 'd breed partridge not pheasant would n't he ? |
| 24 | If Fen thought she had no other attachments , she 'd be off this boat in double quick time . |
| 25 | The next LAN to be developed will probably be for Horticultural Education , where external funding is currently being sought for hardware and software to run specialist grounds maintenance , works scheduling , and computerised landscape design and costing . |
| 26 | Hofmann believed that the proper objectives of such research should not be for personal gain , but for the pursuit of fundamental knowledge and the fulfilment of social needs . |
| 27 | The first is that it now seems the £200 must all be for personal injury or death and not just include such damages . |
| 28 | The limitation that " consumer goods " must be for private use or consumption , whilst a " product " can be supplied for any use , does not mean that suppliers of industrial or business products can escape their responsibilities , because the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 will apply . |
| 29 | The race among the rest of us will be for second place . ’ |
| 30 | Interestingly , the design requirements of eyes on the side of your head , which is where they need to be for all-round vision , plus the need for excellent binocular vision , leads to the cutaway snout or long face , such as we find in many rodents , including squirrels ( see Figure 4.3 ) . |