Example sentences of "word are [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The words are worth one last look . |
| 2 | Not many of the words are worth anything at all by themselves . |
| 3 | Smith 's job is to make people see he could care less , can do something about Britain 's problems and that his words are worth more than those of Johnny Devaluation . |
| 4 | If this failed , words were assigned weights on an inverse term frequency basis ( uncommon words are worth more than common words ) , and the system would look for records containing just some of the words of the search . |
| 5 | None of your navel-lint , tit-licking pen-fuckers so infatuated with the twitchings of the ego they remain sublimely indifferent to the obscene fact that their words are worth less than the flies tormenting the eyelids of an African child . |
| 6 | Things like that it 's for letting that 's what words are for well numbers are for telling other people how much you how much do you Would you like a cup of coffee ? |
| 7 | ‘ Words are for truth . |
| 8 | ‘ Words are for facts . |
| 9 | Alan and I served er , together as er , deputy Chairs , or vice-Chairs or whatever the appropriate words are for several years er , and I erm , well I think I would adopt the words that he used about the experience that he has had in the Chair , to whit , that his companionship and his contribution to our affairs has been stimulating , enlightening and particularly enjoyable . |
| 10 | Many Scots words are of French origin , which is bonnie , and an elite guard of the French Monarchy was formed from Scots who journeyed to France as mercenaries . |
| 11 | The relevant words are of course quidquid … debebat . |
| 12 | Since these words are of such great antiquity , recorded some three and a half thousand years ago , how are they still relevant today , especially in relation to the inner conflicts of our lives ? |
| 13 | These words are of significance as they tie in with the title ‘ Futility ’ because all three words have basically the same meaning and their use enhances this feeling of futility throughout the poem for the reader . |
| 14 | Complex words are of two major types : words made from a basic stem word with the addition of an affix , and compound words , which are made of two ( or occasionally more ) independent English words ( e.g. ‘ ice-cream ’ , ‘ armchair ’ ) . |
| 15 | new words are to be assigned to gaps in the lexicon ; |
| 16 | If the sentence production system includes one component whose task is to retrieve specific content words from the mental lexicon , and another component whose task is to create a linguistic structure into which these content words are to be inserted , then one would not be surprised to find some patients whose speech consists of unstructured sequences of specific content words , and others whose speech has correct linguistic structure but lacks specific content words . |
| 17 | The day wanes , and if your words are to be believed then I had best be back in the security of your Rorim before nightfall . ’ |
| 18 | Moreover , given the open-ended nature of this phrase and the already existing divergence of opinion among the national courts as to how those words are to be interpreted , this would seem to be a classic situation for the UK courts to give effect to Community law by interpretation of the national law so as to achieve congruence between the national and the Community norms . |
| 19 | And at the end does these all words are to given to and insert the redevelopment site for long term employment . |
| 20 | ‘ These words are by Stalin ! |
| 21 | The words are by a Scot , John Henry Mackay . |
| 22 | These words are like the click of a door shutting on the illusion of love . |
| 23 | ( The words are from an old song . ) |
| 24 | In fact the words are from a novel , Jean Barois by Roger Martin du Gard , published in 1912 , and in that novel they elicit the response : |
| 25 | The words are from John Coleman , ICI Fibres ' commercial director , who has seen the Company fight back to success . |
| 26 | The less effective the words are in identifying relevant features of context in that sense , the more dependent they become on grammatical modification of one sort or another . |
| 27 | His harshest words are in fact directed at the Serbian Army . |
| 28 | Like Saussure 's Cours , The Meaning of Meaning starts from the proposition that there is an essential disjunction between language and reality , that it is a superstition to believe that ‘ words are in some way parts of things ’ ( Ogden and Richards 1936 : 14 ) . |
| 29 | It might not be a complete oversimplification to state that many of the profession 's difficulties with the lay public stem from the public 's basic incomprehension of what we write ; and yet is it not the particular beauty of the English language that the most appreciated and elegant words are in fact the simplest and most easily understood ? |
| 30 | Words are in many ways the tools of thought ; they are what the individual uses to formulate as well as express his ideas . |