Example sentences of "worth [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is thus worth summarising the historical background covered by the narrative in Acts . |
| 2 | The Korean War and several other border wars , backed by the super-powers , had been judged not worth pressing the nuclear button for and it was this consideration which had produced the British H-Bomb in 1957 . |
| 3 | Once you have decided to go the kit route , your first step is to send off a request to several manufacturers for illustrated brochures ( you will find a list of the major manufacturers at the end of the article , and it is also worth checking the Yellow Pages for firms operating in your area ) . |
| 4 | Is it worth sacrificing the long-term future of Britain 's biggest state-owned industry to make political capital in the run-up to the next election ? |
| 5 | The influence of Plato , though difficult to exhume from the centuries of interpretation , seems to relate more to the ‘ process ’ and ‘ quality ’ of studies than to their ‘ object ’ or ‘ content ’ , though it is worth noting the paradigmatic nature of mathematics and the primacy of philosophy in his scheme of things . |
| 6 | In this connection , it is worth noting the so-called ‘ Messianic Rule ’ of the Essenes found at Qumran . |
| 7 | Is it worth paying the extra money to a company in order to guarantee good quality support and back-up ? |
| 8 | In the light of the foregoing , it is worth recalling the six tasks commended by the Audit Commission ( 1989a ) for post-ERA LEAs . |
| 9 | In this context it is worth recalling the long-established case law on the judicial review of a Community institution 's discretion where ‘ the evaluation of a complex economic situation ’ is involved : the Court must confine itself to examining whether the exercise of the discretion contains a manifest error , or constitutes a misuse of power or whether the institution did not ‘ clearly ’ exceed the bounds of its discretion . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , in view of the controversy which was later to follow when illness brought my own tenure of office to an end , it is perhaps worth rehearsing the true story . |
| 11 | However , it is first worth rehearsing the basic structure within which the delegation of powers will work under LMS and looking at the basis for teacher involvement that already exists in many schools . |
| 12 | Assuming that there are no such problems , and that your doctor can suggest no other likely causes for the excessive crying , then it is worth investigating the possible role of food . |
| 13 | The range of media is large and the costs can be high so it is worth investigating the pulling power of different choices . |
| 14 | Yet because social relations , and especially changes in social relations , are often more evident in cases of developments in the use or transformation of non-human material objects and forces , it is worth emphasizing the manifest social character of the other kind of development . |
| 15 | Before drafting the artwork , it is worth considering the following aspects of the circuit you are assembling : |
| 16 | It is worth considering the following : |
| 17 | However , in assessing whether the limits are in principle too low , it may be worth considering the gross income of people entitled to representation . |
| 18 | It is worth considering the French model since , with the introduction of the national core curriculum , there will be far less time in the school day to devote to non-specialist teaching ; and with the new terms and conditions for teachers there may well be many who will want a strict regulation on the number of hours ' work they will put in each day . |
| 19 | Then its always worth calling the away club direct and asking if they sell visitors tickets . |
| 20 | Then its always worth calling the away club direct and asking if they sell visitors tickets . |
| 21 | Had I been in a vehicle I could have gone back , but on foot it was not worth risking the wasted energy . |
| 22 | The doctor was so ugly yeah , no , no that when the doctor s when the doctor saw her , no when the doctor saw her , she was so ugly he just had to run , could n't be worth cutting the prinny hole . |
| 23 | In this phase it is well worth cutting the running time down , in order to spend 10 minutes on a thorough stretching programme . |
| 24 | It 's worth doing the Blind Date to see this . |
| 25 | Dropping boards and sails through not carrying them correctly can be very expensive , so it is worth learning the correct method ( Figs 8 and 9 ) . |
| 26 | ‘ If you succeed ’ , he went on , ‘ you will have hundreds of miles of country and thousands of men under your orders , and for this it is worth bartering the outward show . ’ |
| 27 | When you are offered a contract of employment it is worth studying the fine print and clarifying anything you do not understand . |
| 28 | I think for a day 's er work it 's worth assessing the three top people identified with the six outside people that I 've identified who are you know in the next division down to see how they compare . |
| 29 | It is riches beyond my wildest dreams and well worth fighting the Second World War for . |
| 30 | From a European perspective , ski North America means the Rockies : it 's not worth fighting the New Yorkers for turning space in the icy East Coast resorts . |