Example sentences of "be [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Economists believe that the boost to the labour force may be worth an additional 1 per cent a year in the early 1990s . |
| 2 | The title is reckoned to be worth an extra 50,000lbs in sales , so competition will be hot . |
| 3 | From April 1991 , deficits on all local authority hostels met by Government subsidies will be worth an extra £1 billion a year . |
| 4 | Disagreements were also reported on the liberalization of the US trade in textiles ( estimated to be worth an annual US$180,000 million ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The issue may be about an undesirable friendship , being out late at night , buying a motor bike , drinking alcohol , and so on . . |
| 7 | An art monograph need not be about a person , but can be about an individual work or a scheme such as a mural decoration . |
| 8 | Spooner picked up on this idea and thought the best way to do it would be as an extended Perils of Pauline -type adventure , complete with ‘ How are they going to get out of that ? ’ endings . |
| 9 | Another possible use for the program would be as an educational or training aid . |
| 10 | That incident illustrated how easy it would be for an atomic war to develop , so a hot-line was set up by means of a permanent telephone link between Washington in the U.S.A. and Moscow in the U.S.S.R. |
| 11 | They include an original maturity of no more than 187 days , be payable within the UK and be for an identifiable underlying trade transaction . |
| 12 | Thus the Commission saw these two vital controls on police power : the arrest had to be for an imprisonable offence and it had also , in addition to this , to be ‘ necessary ’ . |
| 13 | Along with alterations to the lineout , the amendment is to be for an experimental twelve months only . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The goal deluge at St James 's Park brought home the need to counter the effects of the new offside law which came into force that summer and which reduced from three to two the number of players required to be between an opposing attacker and goal when the ball was last played . |
| 17 | ( b ) Demand for specialist work may be of an intermittent nature and the builder may have difficulty in providing the operatives with continuity of work . |
| 18 | In practice , however , the elasticity of demand for imports and exports may not be of an appropriate value or else it may take considerable time before such automatic forces become effective . |
| 19 | That is why we think it better the change in the community should be of an evolutionary rather than of a revolutionary kind . |
| 20 | The firm curd is squeezed through the cheesemaker 's fingers to break it into small particles — they must be small or the finished cheese will be of an uneven texture . |
| 21 | Because of the nature of the problems dealt with by departments of genito-urinary medicine , the questions asked by the doctor at the interview tend to be of an intimate nature . |
| 22 | Whatever knowledge there is to be gleaned from this year 's batch of accidents will not be of an academic nature , but will be used to teach and to train for the future . |
| 23 | British central government must be noted as a context where conflicts often appear to be of an ideological nature and where the representative model is treated as of some importance . |
| 24 | Meetings were usually held twice a month , and tended to be of an intellectual nature , like art shows , plays , card games , outings and theatre parties . |
| 25 | The water cistern will be in the roof space or in a high cupboard and should be of an approved plastic construction , clean , strong and with the seal of approval of the National Water Council . |
| 26 | The basic principle encapsulated in the Report is that goods must be of an acceptable quality : the word " merchantable " is dropped . |
| 27 | Achieving regular employment has been one of the most difficult targets for people who have left institutions and there is a marked descent through the occupational and class structure so that , especially where they have suffered illnesses such as schizophrenia , the work they are able to get tends to be of an unskilled or semi-skilled kind . |
| 28 | When people think of giving help or support to those in trouble they nearly always imagine that this help will need to be of an intense and emotional nature . |
| 29 | While the subject matter of the projects can cover a wide range , the examples quoted in interviews tended to be of an operational nature . |
| 30 | If there is a common underlying theme or thread it would seem to be the unstated assumption that ‘ anyone can make it if they try , and if they conform to the rules ’ ; those who fail must suffer from some congenital lack of capacities , or be of an alien disposition . |