Example sentences of "be [prep] a [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 | Economists believe that the boost to the labour force may be worth an additional 1 per cent a year in the early 1990s . |
| 16 | The title is reckoned to be worth an extra 50,000lbs in sales , so competition will be hot . |
| 17 | From April 1991 , deficits on all local authority hostels met by Government subsidies will be worth an extra £1 billion a year . |
| 18 | Disagreements were also reported on the liberalization of the US trade in textiles ( estimated to be worth an annual US$180,000 million ) . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It seemed to be about a young woman , thinking aloud as she went about her home doing her chores . |
| 22 | Now the more certain that we want to be about a particular inference , right , the smaller is the significance level . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | You should dig a pit a yard deep ; for comfort while digging , this will need to be about a square yard in area . |
| 25 | The issue may be about an undesirable friendship , being out late at night , buying a motor bike , drinking alcohol , and so on . . |
| 26 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |
| 27 | The ‘ splitting off of consciousness ’ , and the alien , critical attitudes which result , help to account for departures from convention which are particularly marked in women 's writing at many points throughout the twentieth century , and continue to be as a strong area of postmodernist development . |
| 28 | cf. Ps. 28 : ‘ Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house : thy children like olive plants round about thy table . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ I reckon his best chance would be as a goal-kicking winger but I do n't want him in this role for Widnes . |
| 30 | That was great and started a whole year of being in America for me , which was seeing David as a major star and also for myself , experiencing life as it should be as a major star , with your cars and people looking after you and the record company being polite to you rather than treating you like shit and not working . |