Example sentences of "be [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That dusty old painting on the wall could well be worth a small fortune once inside an auction house . |
| 2 | As your pension is normally ultimately based on the size of your salary when you retire , the two years ' worth of added rights could still be worth a tidy amount . |
| 3 | MADONNA 's new contract with Warner Brothers is said to be worth a cool $60 million . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It is , however , because religion is about the archaic heritage of humanity , and involves relations with parent figures , particularly the father , that one would expect emotional reactions to the subject ; either religion is the most important part of life , and immune to scientific investigation for that reason , or it is too trivial to be worth a working scientist 's time . |
| 6 | Over one year , a £10 a month investment would be worth a respectable £143.26 now , if it could have been placed in the same hypothetical fund . |
| 7 | What has not been developed to the same extent is the suggestiveness of his work on the novel for theories of genre , a suggestiveness which I will only touch on here , but which seems to me to be worth a great deal more investigation and discussion . |
| 8 | When they bought them from me , I said , ‘ For the next ten to fifteen years do n't sell these , because by then they will be worth a great deal ’ . |
| 9 | I knew anything of Dad 's — anything — would be worth a great might hundred dollars . |
| 10 | American investors were the big buyers , mainly sophisticated funds prepared to gamble that GPA would cling to life or prove to be worth a substantial sum broken up . |
| 11 | They were very much caught up in the opinion that if they were an indie band , it could n't possibly be worth a major record company taking them seriously . |
| 12 | ‘ This place would n't be worth a twopenny fart after that little incident . ’ |
| 13 | ( A band of this stature would be worth a costly legal battle ) . |
| 14 | It would be worth a little temporary gossip to see how he did it . |
| 15 | It seems a bit on the pricy side , especially as no case is included , but it might well be worth the extra for the feel of the neck and the promise of high reliability . |
| 16 | Orange or red nut feeders are especially attractive to siskins , but if there are squirrels around it may be worth the extra expense of a tough model such as the Gilbert squirrel-proof feeder , which has a nut basket surrounded by a mesh which will only allow the birds through . |
| 17 | In some instances , the long-term benefit to the victim may be worth the short-term price , but it is a question which must be faced . |
| 18 | He evidently considered that gain to be worth the negative propaganda value of a militarily minor defeat , especially as it was portrayed as a defeat for the Italians , not for the Nationalists . |
| 19 | Economists believe that the boost to the labour force may be worth an additional 1 per cent a year in the early 1990s . |
| 20 | The title is reckoned to be worth an extra 50,000lbs in sales , so competition will be hot . |
| 21 | From April 1991 , deficits on all local authority hostels met by Government subsidies will be worth an extra £1 billion a year . |
| 22 | Disagreements were also reported on the liberalization of the US trade in textiles ( estimated to be worth an annual US$180,000 million ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 25 | It seemed to be about a young woman , thinking aloud as she went about her home doing her chores . |
| 26 | Now the more certain that we want to be about a particular inference , right , the smaller is the significance level . |
| 27 | Like a dutiful citizen , I checked in with the Usher and he looked at his clipboard and said there would be about a fifteen-minute wait , so why did n't I take a seat ? |
| 28 | You should dig a pit a yard deep ; for comfort while digging , this will need to be about a square yard in area . |
| 29 | ‘ Then you must be about the only person in London that has n't heard , ’ Bragg said drily . |
| 30 | ‘ I have n't even seen the original series — I must be about the only guy in the western hemisphere who has n't , ’ he said as the cast walked up the plank in Irvine , Ayrshire , to inspect the Vital Spark for the first time . |