Example sentences of "worth more [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | The sculpture of Medardo Rosso is also worth more than a passing glance . |
2 | But when , as his friend and director Mike Nichols asserts , an actor has inscribed upon popular history a character who has influenced the modern male personality , as did Henry Fonda , James Cagney , Spencer Tracy and Humphrey Bogart , his personal idiosyncrasies are worth more than a cursory glance . |
3 | ‘ She 's worth more than a shepherd . ’ |
4 | The Kaduna-based Hausa language newspaper Gaskiya ta fi Kwabo ( ‘ The Truth is Worth More than a Penny ’ ) , took this allegation further by quoting from a leading Kaduna State politician : |
5 | Try not to get pushed into this — your health is worth more than a few extra quid . |
6 | Hence , a pound paid out is worth more than a pound retained and reinvested . |
7 | A lecturer at a further education college has won a grant worth more than a third of a million pounds to study volcanos . |
8 | Kelly said : ‘ It 's not right that the end of year events are worth more than the early season classics just because the interest has got to be maintained to the finish . ’ |
9 | In the context of hospitality and friendship , little and often is worth more than the grandest of annual social jamborees . |
10 | It is not the fact that a coin is often worth more than the value of the bullion it contains . |
11 | You are worth more than the birds ! |
12 | The most casual obscenities , the most hackneyed endearments , coming to me from your rose-red lips , are worth more than the sagest advice of all the old men in the world . |
13 | Surely polymeric surfactants , which are becoming increasingly important as dispersing agents , are worth more than the three pages devoted to them here . |
14 | Robin Launders , Manchester United 's finance director , told ACCOUNTANCY that the company thought it appropriate to disclose the value attributed to players in the directors ' report in a similar way to the publication of information when properties were worth more than the balance sheet value . |
15 | However he also meant everyone to realise that the ‘ new thing ’ was worth more than the ‘ lost lore ’ . |
16 | But the new property must not be worth more than the old one . |
17 | Kanfer 's assertion that words are , in the end , worth more than the ‘ legitimate ’ social grievances of feminists is , to say the least , a weak and unconvincing argument . |
18 | And make sure your insurance company knows about any specific items , like valuable antiques , that are worth more than the insurance limit they may have set . |
19 | The idea is that the bidder must think that the shares in the company are worth more than the bid price , for example , because under the bidder 's control the company will be operated more efficiently , otherwise the bid would not be made . |
20 | For patients , continued trust in the basis for their doctor 's decisions is worth more than the possibility of quicker access to elective surgery . |
21 | At the age of twenty-one , after some years as a clerk in a dry goods store , Marshall went to Chicago , telling his sceptical boss that he would one day own a store so big that the doors alone would be worth more than the boss 's entire business . |
22 | A radio would probably be worth more than the car itself . |
23 | Add up the value of your home , car , shares and belongings and you may well find you are worth more than the current threshold . |
24 | Alternatively , the pursuer 's advisers may appreciate that being unable to produce better vouching , the claim can not be proven to be worth more than the Tender which is , consequently , accepted . |
25 | They will not complain if they believe that their property is worth more than the band in which it has been allocated . |
26 | But there is something of a tension in Mill 's view , because he thinks that erm it 's very important that if there is plural voting then the people who only have one vote should be prepared to accept the situation , so that the reasons why these people are given extra votes should be reasoned that the public , the uneducated accept past critics have pointed out if that 's going to be the case , why is it necessary to give these people extra votes , give the educated actual votes , because if the uneducated accept that the decisions of the educated are worth more than their own decisions , the opinions of the educated are worth more than the opinions of the uneducated , if they really do accept that , what 's to stop them just following the decisions of the educated in their own vote ? |
27 | On performances I personally think we are worth more than the 2 pts per game average . |
28 | If the charter is to be worth more than the paper it is printed on we need guarantees that appropriate action will be taken to the satisfaction of the public , and in particular , the complainant . |
29 | If the charter is to be worth more than the paper it is printed on we need guarantees that appropriate action will be taken to the satisfaction of the public , and in particular , the complainant . |
30 | Since Gladstone 's day , governments have accepted that literacy , learning and literature are worth more than the revenue from a tax on the product . |