Example sentences of "[am/are] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This type of long-netting is inevitably carried out in broad daylight , and the rabbits will be much more aware of the net than they are during darkness . |
| 2 | I suppose I am off guard . |
| 3 | I am off food hunting . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am for King Stephen . ’ |
| 5 | " Miriam , " she said instead , " I can not tell you how worried I am for Harry . |
| 6 | ‘ However , I am for frankness in these matters . |
| 7 | Avid as I am for details of Claudia 's personal life , I have lost interest in the details of my own . |
| 8 | Heron 's properties are worth £1.3 billion and Mr Ronson warned that it will take until 1999 to sell a sufficient stake to repay debt . |
| 9 | He claims the shares are worth $125 , though how he chose this number is a mystery . |
| 10 | that only knowledge or skills ( such as language skills ) of national relevance are worth testing ; |
| 11 | Hypotheses which are worth testing can only be developed in areas about which a good deal is known , i.e. where a great deal of empirical field data has already been collected . |
| 12 | The current orders outstanding are worth £540 million . |
| 13 | One of the main jobs of the unit is to advise branch managers about technical projects that are worth backing . |
| 14 | Some incidents at local level are worth recording . |
| 15 | The programmes of two Soirees are worth recording ; the one in October 1865 started with a Public Tea at 6 o'clock precisely and was followed by the Chairmans 's Address Duet T is the hour for music Mrs Baker & Miss Russell Song Scenes of Home Mr. Bate Address — Rev.J.McFadyen Song Auld Robin Gray Miss Russell Duet What are the Wild Waves Saying Mr Bate & Mrs Baker Address — Capt.J.C . |
| 16 | The posts may not necessarily be particularly lucrative ( regius professorships are worth £100 a year , religiously paid in quarterly £25 cheques ) , but they are at some of the pinnacles of national life , they open doors and they command respect . |
| 17 | Rexel Derwent 's Graphite Sketching Pencils are worth look at too . |
| 18 | This definition includes a number of assumptions that are worth expansion . |
| 19 | Private collections are examples of critical judgement in action , so that both their catalogues and the opinions expressed by collectors are worth consideration . |
| 20 | In a similar way we sometimes need to remind ourselves that young readers have ideas that are worth consideration , and that the administratively-convenient solution to a problem may not be the most valuable one . |
| 21 | Although you could re-use the tape for another recording , you may decide to keep it : it 's surprising how even the most unambitious personal video recordings often contain scenes , or just brief moments , which are worth preserving . |
| 22 | But we must also , where possible , build into plans for the future those values that are worth preserving . |
| 23 | Is the Prime Minister aware that 500,000 cashmere jerseys are worth £75 million to textile communities such as my own in the central borders in Scotland ? |
| 24 | Yet the gains from liberalising trade in services alone are worth $600 billion a year . |
| 25 | A few general points are worth highlighting . |
| 26 | With regard to the welfare sector , four developments are worth highlighting . |
| 27 | But there are anyway other anecdotes which for what they are worth trace the origin of political professionalism to dates earlier than Kleon : a Byzantine lexicon called the Suda , for instance , makes Pericles the first to take a written speech into court , while for Aristotle ( Cic . |
| 28 | All the deeper holes are worth investigation and if you fish them with flake on a quiver you could well get roach or chub as well . |
| 29 | Several features of its history are worth notice . |
| 30 | The analysis of such models under rational expectations is too complicated to discuss here , but the main implications of the Neary and Stiglitz model are worth sketching . |