Example sentences of "be worth [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rolle 's gifts as a writer enable him to convey the flavour of a variety of levels of religious awareness and all his English writings are worth exploring with this in mind . |
| 2 | Similarly , when confronted with the results from small numbers , an experienced researcher should be able quickly to judge whether statistics are worth calculating at all . |
| 3 | Two points are worth remembering from all this : perfect swims do n't last forever and for every one that declines another will have been changed by the same forces into an excellent one . |
| 4 | Two further trends are worth including among such thumb-nail sketches . |
| 5 | Two things are worth emphasising in this connection . |
| 6 | A few more points are worth stressing about this kind of account . |
| 7 | Two responses to the passage below ( approximately 11 year reading level ) are worth discussing in this context . |
| 8 | Some of these are worth highlighting in greater detail as a means of contextualizing the data and illustrating some of the social processes operating upon them . |
| 9 | We were frequently fortunate to find some very good tutors in the other languages , but four points are worth noting about this : |
| 10 | Two things are worth noting at this point . |
| 11 | Two points are worth noting regarding this agreement . |
| 12 | They do , however , raise issues that have a direct bearing on the theme of this part of the book and are worth quoting at some length : |
| 13 | These cogitations are worth quoting in full , as they so accurately reflect , albeit in a more lucid form than that usually encountered , the thinking of those who in the next few decades were to give away the empire in the belief that they were acting to preserve it . |
| 14 | Christopher Booker 's thoughts on the subject are worth quoting in full for he manages to incorporate a good quota of folk devils in his account , and provides almost a blueprint of the conservative-historical position : |
| 15 | The words of Sir Keith Joseph , Kenneth Baker 's immediate predecessor at the DES , and an architect of the National Curriculum are worth quoting in this context . |
| 16 | ‘ Matilda 's trouble ’ , she said , trying once again , ‘ is that she is so far ahead of everyone else around her that it might be worth thinking about some extra kind of private tuition . |
| 17 | For if not then ultimately there is no meaning to survival ; for a life whose meaning stands and falls on whether one escapes or not … ultimately would not be worth living at all ’ |
| 18 | D' ya think it might be worth writing to some of the and asking them to donate any paper plates ? |
| 19 | An example may , in consequence , be worth considering at some length . |
| 20 | Two tactics which might be worth considering with this aim in mind are the use of test cases first as policy-changing devices and second as political catalysts . |
| 21 | As an observation it seems sufficiently true , on the basis of simple observation of everyday life , to be worth accepting at this point in the theory , although it is a crucial proposition . |
| 22 | Well it might be worth looking through last year 's list in the day . |
| 23 | As one teacher put it to me , ‘ on a bad day I have the feeling that I am struggling hard to do something that may not be worth doing at all ’ . |
| 24 | Might be worth waiting for this . |
| 25 | It might be worth enquiring of other departments whether Simon had ever been known to associate with anarchist groups . |
| 26 | Even if your pension in your own right is fairly small , it may be worth claiming for any years after you reach 60 before your husband retires . |
| 27 | The players who might be worth persevering with such as Hinchcliffe , Cottee and Beagrie , are usually the fall guys ( surely not because they were Harvey signings ? ) |
| 28 | Erm , what 's worth reading about that , and it comes out strongly in the introduction , is that this is a kind of case stu study of a particular kind of person . |
| 29 | For example , if you wanted to ’ bag up ’ with barbel a trip to the Severn may be in order , but if you wanted a ten pounder then it 's worth driving to one of the hot southern rivers like the Hampshire Avon , Bristol Avon or Kennet . |
| 30 | Erm saying I 've got this gambling problem , I do n't know whether how much it 's worth betting on this . |