Example sentences of "be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's hard to believe she 's about to be worth six million dollars . |
| 2 | Few jobs are easy to get these days and , if you have set your sights on advertising , it must be worth extra effort . |
| 3 | The haul is estimated to be worth thirty thousand pounds , but the money means little to her . |
| 4 | Without a national society to maintain such a link it is doubtful if amateur radio could survive in today 's cut-throat world of radio communication where a single frequency in commercial terms is estimated to be worth millions of pounds . |
| 5 | It does n't compare to the recent find by Suffolk farmer Eric Laws , which is estimated to be worth millions . |
| 6 | Lee ( ’ if he was a footballer he 'd be worth millions ’ says Watkins ) skates in Italy next month with club members and British dance champions David Samson and Adele Warner . |
| 7 | You just need to glance at the front pages and leader columns of the Tory papers to see the free advertising alone must be worth millions to the Tory Party . |
| 8 | You see if that 's how we 're to judge blessing then what are we to say to people , to men like C T Stard who sacrificed an inheritance that in today 's value , just in the early part of this century , but in today 's value be worth millions of pounds to go to the Congo , and to China , and to India ? |
| 9 | TRIES will be worth five points in the new rugby season , and three-day county championship matches may be scrapped in next year 's cricket season . |
| 10 | The try is to be worth five points while the drop goal will count for two points . |
| 11 | How then can it be worth five more years ? ’ |
| 12 | Your thousand pounds would now be worth five hundred and ten , if you take the effect of R P I . |
| 13 | Nice pair of earrings there , should be worth five pounds on their own . |
| 14 | And might not that be worth five thousand pounds ? ’ |
| 15 | On this theory one year of healthy life is taken to be worth 1 . |
| 16 | Happens , but they do try and go for bigger takings , I mean they 'll not break into my house it wo n't be worth all that worth . |
| 17 | ‘ So we hope that the mistletoe will be worth that . ’ |
| 18 | Fifty pounds for a pair of earrings , must be worth that in gold . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Each one of us is said to be worth fifty thousand pounds of advertising per year to the tobacco companies . ’ |
| 21 | Rincewind tried to work it out , and decided that even if the box were crammed with star opals and sticks of auricholatum the contents would not be worth one-tenth the price of the container . |
| 22 | Okay that would be worth one mark . |
| 23 | They would be worth one-fifth of residents ' pay and cover half the value of the goods . |
| 24 | Or should they hang on in the hope that these assets will soon be worth serious money ? |
| 25 | It might be contemptible , but it still had to be worth conquering ; and the fifteenth-century verse chronicle by John Hardyng , which demonstrated that Scotland , with its three fair university cities and fruitful countryside , could easily victual incoming English armies , makes the point very well . |
| 26 | Invest in a good piece now : later , it will be worth much more , ’ he says , gesturing towards tip worktables , fire irons , needlework samplers and silk pictures . |
| 27 | I 've seen loads of rings like this , so they ca n't be worth much . ’ |
| 28 | You constantly discount yourself : ‘ My opinion may not be worth much but … ’ |
| 29 | A manor , it now seems unnecessary to reiterate , might be worth much or little , depending on a combination of factors : the size of the demensne and the efficiency of its management , whether the customary fines were certain or arbitrary , and if the latter , the vigour with which they were exploited . |
| 30 | Assuming the cardboard box was full of letters and that each one carried a stamp — used stamps of Natal and Cape Province between the years say , 1850 and 1890 — would they be worth much ? |