Example sentences of "worth [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DAZZLING : This little beauty is worth half a million pounds … the size of our super jackpot |
| 2 | Should be worth half a careers officer . |
| 3 | Nigel says the support of the fans is worth half a second a lap and he believes that people power helps him to win |
| 4 | Last year rare species worth half a million pounds pounds have been stolen in raids around the country . |
| 5 | It claimed the tenancy was worth half the difference in value between the tenanted land and equivalent vacant possession land , and taxed half this amount . |
| 6 | If the contract had been ‘ straightforward ’ then it would have been worth half the £1.31 million that he was to be paid . |
| 7 | That is it 's worth half the marks on one of your three papers . |
| 8 | She indicated that this meant greater use of mixed arts/science Alevel programmes and of contrasting/complementary ASlevels , worth half an Alevel . |
| 9 | There have been numerous attempts to mitigate this evil , from non-compulsory science-for-arts and arts-for-scientists , to the uneasy introduction of AS levels , each worth half an A level , to be taken in a wide variety of different subjects , not necessarily related to the student 's main subjects . |
| 10 | Charlie could no longer accept that any victory was worth such a price . |
| 11 | ‘ The success of the operation was worth all the suffering ’ |
| 12 | ‘ … there is another park , ’ wrote Mr Hutton in By Thames and Cotswold at the beginning of this century , ‘ it is isolated and wild with a Jacobean hunting lodge worth all the great houses near it thrown together . ’ |
| 13 | This small daily job is worth all the effort . |
| 14 | Personally I liked it , but felt it was not worth all the publicity I had helped create for it . |
| 15 | I hope she 's worth all the expenses , he thought , as be refilled her glass . |
| 16 | People say that Lee is either precious or lazy ( make up yer minds , f—wits ! ) , but it 's become manifest that these songs are worth all the tons of grief and introspection and the endless re-tuning . |
| 17 | Batman Returns ( Warner 15 , out now ) is better but still not worth all the hoo-hah . |
| 18 | It was worth all the effort just to see the bird do its stuff , and enjoy the indescribable thrill of so many chases . |
| 19 | Supposing that the essential words conferring the primacy on all successive archbishops of Canterbury were in fact in the letters which Lanfranc mentioned , why did he go on at such length about the facts drawn from Bede , when a single quotation from one of the passages granting the primacy in perpetuity to the archbishops of Canterbury would have been worth all the rest of his argument put together ? |
| 20 | Despite , and maybe because of , the trickier moments , it was worth all the sacrifices and hardships . |
| 21 | ‘ Lying in hospital with plenty of time to think , one wonders whether racing is worth all the hassle . |
| 22 | Well worth all the trouble she went to , I 'd say , of mending the silly thing 's leg . ’ |
| 23 | It was worth all the hard work that we had put into it because it got that we used to use the town park towards the latter part of Barnardos day and all the men that we had gathered together used to have to erect every piece of fence to enclose like it is now , the park , is enclosed now with with fencing the men that were helping us did that all voluntarily ! |
| 24 | But it was worth all the hard work . |
| 25 | Despite , and maybe because of , the trickier moments , it was worth all the sacrifices and hardships . |
| 26 | This was the bird 's only talent , but in the eyes of its owner , the unfortunate Henri K — , it was a talent worth all the others . |
| 27 | Was it worth all the hours and hours of work , the sacrifices , the lack of room in your life for anything — or anyone — else ? ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Although the studying is at times hard going , it is also very enjoyable and well worth all the effort and has helped me produce a higher standard of work for the Company . ’ |
| 29 | Dressing for the afternoon , she wondered what Mrs Darrell was like , and whether she was worth all the tohu-bohu of preparing a slap-up tea , and being formally ‘ At Home ’ , which had resulted in even more work for McAllister , as Sally-Anne was increasingly beginning to think herself when she was being a maid of all work . |
| 30 | ‘ Worth all the hassle ? ’ |