Modifies a noun

• metal: Gold Overview Gold is a precious metal, with a very high cost.

• commodity: With time now a very precious commodity we had to start shooting straight away.

• stone: A girdle of gold, inlaid with precious stones, was around him.

• jewel: Often grains of gold, pearls, and amber and other precious jewels would be hidden among various dishes and their contents.

• cargo: The precious cargo at Heathrow Airport I'm sure we all felt some degree of trepidation.

• gem: The necklace evokes feelings of the beach and precious gems.

Used with adjective complement

• seem: It seemed too precious an offering for any degree of publicity.

• become: This verse also serves to remind us how these prepositions can become precious to us - by faith.

• hold: They discount what we hold precious, and not just to be awkward.

• get: The NEC get very precious about their own regions.

Infinitive complement

• waste: I can drink alcohol but I do not drink often now, the next day is too precious to waste with hangover!

• leave: The vision of the future is too precious to leave to the responsibility of the few.

Modifying Another Word

• infinitely: Time is infinitely precious, with the golden opportunities it presents - just once, in so many cases.

• too: The vision of the future is too precious to leave to the responsibility of the few.

• equally: The great buildings of which they are custodians stand among literally thousands of smaller but equally precious places of worship.

• so: Memories are so precious, you know so I would like them to have all these memories of what they did with us.

• very: The NEC get very precious about their own regions.

• especially: By extension the phrase was then applied to anything or anyone being especially precious.

Preposition: in

• sight: For us, precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of His saints.

Preposition: than

• gold: The Spanish then imported it to Europe, where it seduced the European courts and became even more precious than Aztec gold.