Example sentences of "worth [adj] [subord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No scheme will be worth much if farmers are allowed merely to give over their least productive land . |
| 2 | Discounting is based on the recognition that money received one year hence is worth less than money received today because of the income that could have been earned by investing the capital now . |
| 3 | A character with Metallurgy will know of the adulteration , one with Numismatics will know the coins are worth less than face value . |
| 4 | ‘ Some things are worth more than money . ’ |
| 5 | But one thing should console him : Microsoft is now worth more than IBM ! |
| 6 | On their pumping new single , ‘ Gold ’ , which is bizarrely reminiscent of New Order circa 1984 , East 17 go for the sneeringly philosophical angle , insisting that ‘ life is worth more than gold ’ . |
| 7 | It 's a sell-out and in Gloucester a ticket to the match is worth more than gold . |
| 8 | I began to think erotically of Alison again ; of the dirty week-end pleasures of having her in some Athens hotel bedroom ; of birds in the hand being worth more than birds in the bush ; and with better motives , of her loneliness , her perpetual mixed-up loneliness . |
| 9 | That to me is worth more than silver , for I think much about the state of the land in these strange times , with snow falling in midsummer and the Giants wandering the hills . ’ |
| 10 | It follows that management 's shares can not be worth more than par value at the date they subscribe . |