Example sentences of "[be] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | The title is reckoned to be worth an extra 50,000lbs in sales , so competition will be hot . |
| 2 | Economists believe that the boost to the labour force may be worth an additional 1 per cent a year in the early 1990s . |
| 3 | Your roll of wire will be worth an exploratory dig , tools become toys to be kicked around and chewed , and your jumper which you foolishly left hanging on the fence is now going to suffer a life-threatening crisis . |
| 4 | If he was to catch thee , all thy fighting skills would n't be worth an ounce o' flea shit . ’ |
| 5 | From April 1991 , deficits on all local authority hostels met by Government subsidies will be worth an extra £1 billion a year . |
| 6 | Disagreements were also reported on the liberalization of the US trade in textiles ( estimated to be worth an annual US$180,000 million ) . |
| 7 | 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. |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But these are ideas I feel might be worth an airing . ’ |
| 10 | 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 |
| 11 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |
| 12 | The issue may be about an undesirable friendship , being out late at night , buying a motor bike , drinking alcohol , and so on . . |
| 13 | You 're that 's right you 're you 're giving the impression that it 's about a human being then it turns out to be about an animal , now come back to the question what point is being made ? |
| 14 | However commendable prudence may be as an accounting concept , decline will put it under pressure . |
| 15 | Spooner picked up on this idea and thought the best way to do it would be as an extended Perils of Pauline -type adventure , complete with ‘ How are they going to get out of that ? ’ endings . |
| 16 | Another possible use for the program would be as an educational or training aid . |
| 17 | On this rendering of alienation as a state of mind the most usual form of this would be as an attitude scale consisting of a series of statements judged to express alienative feelings , and to which subjects have to respond in terms of their agreement or disagreement . |
| 18 | Oxford 's new role will be as an extension of London 's Wormwood Scrubs . |
| 19 | That incident illustrated how easy it would be for an atomic war to develop , so a hot-line was set up by means of a permanent telephone link between Washington in the U.S.A. and Moscow in the U.S.S.R. |
| 20 | Thus the Commission saw these two vital controls on police power : the arrest had to be for an imprisonable offence and it had also , in addition to this , to be ‘ necessary ’ . |
| 21 | On the front of the astrolabe there was a thin plate ( the tympan ) on which was engraved a stereographic projection of the lines of altitude and azimuth ( angular distance along the horizon ) as they would be for an observer at a given latitude . |
| 22 | Along with alterations to the lineout , the amendment is to be for an experimental twelve months only . |
| 23 | An alternative and fairer approach would be for an incoming radical government to insist that each of the privatized industries should make a free issue of stock , by way of compensation for the sale of public assets at deflated prices . |
| 24 | Traditional music and hymnody are seen to be for an older audience . |
| 25 | A further question that arises ( and that might be perceived on the face of this problem ) is whether dismissal by the Crown can only be for misbehaviour in office or whether it can be for an offence not related to judicial office or affecting judicial ability . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | They include an original maturity of no more than 187 days , be payable within the UK and be for an identifiable underlying trade transaction . |
| 28 | The goal deluge at St James 's Park brought home the need to counter the effects of the new offside law which came into force that summer and which reduced from three to two the number of players required to be between an opposing attacker and goal when the ball was last played . |
| 29 | For example , in many classrooms pupils can be found discussing the differences in vocabulary there would be between an on-the-spot oral account of a road accident and a newspaper report of it the following day ; or considering the ways in which conventional spellings can be violated in advertisements and brand names ; or listing some of the differences between their grandparents ' use of language and their own ; or talking about the way a poet 's choice of metaphor yokes together two dissimilar things so that something familiar is suddenly perceived in a new way ; and so on . |
| 30 | It could be through an art-form or simply by a love of nature . |