Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A call from you would be worth a hundred scribbled messages on Christmas cards . |
| 2 | If Di Haine 's Smooth Escort makes the cut for the Grand National at Aintree tomorrow he could be worth a sporting each-way bet as his trainer has always maintained he was made for the marathon . |
| 3 | ( A band of this stature would be worth a costly legal battle ) . |
| 4 | It would be worth a little temporary gossip to see how he did it . |
| 5 | This time , however , it will not be about the great philosophical issues of class warfare and who should run the world ; it will be simply about where students can sit to hear a lecture . |
| 6 | To be for a democratic united Europe means to be unambiguously against its current economic reality — and most immediately against the policies dictated by the ERM . |
| 7 | This arrangement is not popular with staff and should therefore be for a predetermined limited period . |
| 8 | Schedules are generally constructed over a year , which is usually the client 's short-term planning cycle , but may be for a single seasonal burst . |
| 9 | They include an original maturity of no more than 187 days , be payable within the UK and be for an identifiable underlying trade transaction . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This need not necessarily be for the pure career-orientated reasons suggested by Niskanen — whether teachers or social workers have suggested policy changes that increase expenditure for pure self-interest or through the genuine altruistic belief that a greater supply of their services will benefit their society , such groups have occupied central roles in the expansion of their services |
| 12 | ‘ You think it would be for the best then ? ’ |
| 13 | The Russian Congress , constituted as a result of elections in March [ see p. 37322 , where the elections are stated wrongly to be for the Russian Supreme Soviet ] and comprising 1,068 deputies , convened on May 16 . |
| 14 | and of course if you want to include a small element this year a greater element would be for the new open plan . |
| 15 | One way would be for the Common Open Software Environment firms , HP , IBM , Sun Microsystems Inc , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Unix System Labs and OSF — plus arbiter X/Open Co Ltd — to endorse an API that Tivoli has already offered up for their use ( UX No 429 ) . |
| 16 | One way would be for the Common Open Software Environment firms , Hewlett-Packard , IBM , Sun Microsystems Inc , Santa Cruz Operation Inc , Unix System Laboratories Inc and the Open Software Foundation — plus arbiter X/Open Co Ltd — to endorse an Application Programming Interface that Tivoli has already offered up for their use . |
| 17 | Caterham is as ready as it can be for the single European market , which is of critical importance since 60% of its production is exported . |
| 18 | The choice will soon be between a total nuclear weapons ban , and a wildfire spread of nuclear technology . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Insiders say the front air intake , rounded but not necessarily elliptical , will be below the impact-absorbing front bumper . |
| 21 | The number is assumed to be of a certain maximum field width and the process also terminates if this field width is reached . |
| 22 | After commenting that not all the defendant 's statements appeared to be of a similar literary merit , the judge fined him $2,000 . |
| 23 | Well increasingly we see that organizations are recognizing that effective use of information as a corporate resource manipulated and manageable as a whole can be of a tremendous competitive advantage and the client server has become the most effective way of exploiting and leveraging that resource . |
| 24 | ‘ The idea I have in view whilst I make the demonstration ’ may be of a particular right-angled triangle with sides of a certain length , but I may , nevertheless , be sure that it holds of all right-angled triangles if , by not mentioning the ways in which it differs from them , I use this one to stand for them all . |
| 25 | Thus the intrinsic value of something follows from its intrinsic nature , so that nothing exactly like it could be of a different intrinsic value , while yet it is not one of the features one could properly list in indicating what something else would have to be like to be just like this thing . |
| 26 | Of course the dictator would have to be of the right political colour , or he might shoot the wrong people . |
| 27 | video and film must be of the highest professional standard and rigorously edited |
| 28 | It needs to be of the highest possible standard , and the music which is used within it should represent a variety of styles and traditions , as a preparation for leading worship in the wider Church . |
| 29 | It is of capital importance that the microscope upon which CL equipment is mounted should be of the highest possible transmissivity . |
| 30 | ( The adult readers might like to list those books , and other reading matter , for which they have a particular affection or which they feel have made a contribution to their lives , and then check to see how many of them would be considered to be of the highest literary worth . ) |